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- 11 Sep 2020
- Video
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, discusses how the Equity Bank model evolved through learning both from Asian companies and from the bank’s own customers.
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- September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009
By: Anette Mikes, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's private bank during the financial crisis in 2008–2009. The case provides perspective on the philosophy with which they...
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Keywords:
Judgments;
Financial Crisis;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Risk Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Banking Industry;
United States
Mikes, Anette, Clayton S. Rose, and Aldo Sesia. "J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009." Harvard Business School Case 311-003, September 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo
Mary Okelo, who pursued a successful career as an executive of Barclays Bank In Kenya before founding the only women’s bank in Africa and the Makini schools system, explains how important it is for businesses...
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- 08 Jul 2021
- Video
Peter Wharton-Hood
Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, discusses Standard Bank’s expansion in Africa beyond South Africa during the 2000s, which involved a heavy focus on expanding lending in markets in which it entered.
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- April 2014
- Supplement
Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change
By: Michael Tushman
This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Restructuring;
Personal Development and Career;
Commercial Banking;
Banking Industry;
South Africa
Tushman, Michael. "Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 414-709, April 2014.
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's...
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- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2002 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (A)
By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Kathleen L. McGinn and Massimiliano Belingheri
In 1999, a powerful struggle amidst complex corporate and interpersonal networks led to the failed merger between Banca Commerciale Italiana and Unicredito Italiano--two of Italy's largest banking groups. This case analyzes the actions of Abelli and Saviotti, co-CEOs...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Networks;
Banks and Banking;
Business Strategy;
Power and Influence;
Crisis Management;
Government and Politics;
International Finance;
Failure;
Banking Industry;
Italy
Casciaro, Tiziana E., Kathleen L. McGinn, and Massimiliano Belingheri. "Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (A)." Harvard Business School Case 402-043, January 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices
By: Umang Khetan, Jane Li, Ioana Neamtu and Ishita Sen
We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,...
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Keywords:
Interest Rates;
Investment Funds;
Banks and Banking;
Insurance;
Investment Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty
Khetan, Umang, Jane Li, Ioana Neamtu, and Ishita Sen. "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-052, February 2024.
- 06 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India
- 01 May 2011
- News
Be Careful Wishing for the Fed's End
- 13 May 2020
- Video
Cas Coovadia
Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, discusses how the global financial crisis of 2008 impacted South Africa as mainly an economic crisis as the banking...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- News
Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap
- Career Coach
Lobna Dawoud
During her RC summer, Lobna interned at an investment bank and specialized in Financial Institutions Group. She is passionate about helping students with career visioning, setting a recruitment strategy, interview prep, networking tips,...
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- 2022
- Working Paper
Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
By: Jonathan Wallen
On average from 2013 to 2020, foreign asset managers in net sold forward 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars. This forward sale of dollars hedges the currency mismatch of foreign investment in U.S. dollar assets. By accommodating this demand, U.S. and European banks earn an...
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Keywords:
Foreign Exchange;
Financial Intermediation;
Arbitrage;
Market Power;
Regulations;
Currency;
Assets;
Interest Rates;
Banking Industry
Wallen, Jonathan. "Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets." Working Paper, March 2022.
- 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
By: Karen G. Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent...
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Mills, Karen G., and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-004, July 2014.
- February 2023
- Supplement
Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu and Namrata Arora
Supplements the (A) case. Founded in October 1993, the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Performance Evaluation;
Organizational Culture;
Crisis Management;
Banking Industry;
Africa
Kaplan, Robert S., Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu, and Namrata Arora. "Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 123-043, February 2023.
- May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Family Ownership;
Competitive Advantage;
Banking Industry;
Alabama
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Friend Bank: The Time for Hope." Harvard Business School Case 310-070, May 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- January 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation
By: Sunil Gupta and Joseph Davies-Gavin
BBVA Compass, the 15th largest commercial bank in the U.S., is a part of the BBVA Group of Spain, the second largest bank in Spain with $755 billion in assets. In December 2010, Frank Sottosanti, Chief Marketing Officer of BBVA Compass, was reviewing the marketing...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Performance Evaluation;
Banking Industry;
United States
Gupta, Sunil, and Joseph Davies-Gavin. "BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation." Harvard Business School Case 511-096, January 2011. (Revised April 2012.)