Renter beware.
Just $14.99 a week for a color television sounds pretty good to a $6-an-hour factory worker or a mother on welfare. For people without the cash or the squeaky-clean credit history to buy it at Sears, "renting to own" offers an alluring alternative: easy payments, no credit check, and...

GROWTH ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
Islamic banking and finance is one of the fastest growing financial sectors. There has recently been a rush to form new Islamic banking operations, particularly in the Middle East and Southeast Asia Islamic banking and finance is now one of the fastest growing areas of new banking,...

CYPRUS ANTICIPATES NEW HUB ROLE.
Cyprus is positioning itself to play a key role in the economy of a more peaceful Middle East, while reaffirming its European roots in a successful bid for membership of the European Community. Tacitly ceding banking and finance to the Lebanese and others, the Cypriots plan to consolidate their...

Effects of collateral pledges in reducing credit risks - confronting banks in jordan, as lending institutions.
INTRODUCTION This study aims at examining the effects of collaterals pledges in reducing credit risks confronting banks in Jordan, and to test the study's hypotheses in this regard. The study consists of dependent variables which represent credit risks confronting banks when granting loans, credit facilities; and independent...

Banking on technology: careers in finance have become high-tech.
Supermarket check-out lanes are controlled by computers and bar codes, banking can be accomplished over the Internet, and worldwide financial transactions can be completed almost instantaneously. Just decades ago, this was science fiction fare. However, we have witnessed evidence of technology and automation that has changed the world of...

Prodigiously informative.
The Aslib directory of information sources in the United Kingdom. 11th ed. Ed. by Keith W. Reynard. London: Aslib IMI, 2000. 1559p price not reported hard ISBN 0851424309 WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT A BOOK WHICH CONSISTS OF 11 600 ENTRIES for libraries, societies, clubs, archives, offices...

India: back office to the world.
COMPETITION in industry and commerce all over the world is increasing despite, and perhaps even because of, the proliferation of mergers and acquisitions and the creation of global giants. The relentless and mounting pressure of competition in the marketplace continues to drive a never-ending need for companies to reduce...

Gulf banking poised for growth.
Higher oil prices and a downward trend in interest rates have heralded a return to confidence to the Gulf banking sector. Mushtak Parker assesses the prospects for development and growth around the region. WHEN SAUDI ARABIA SNEEZES, the rest of the Gulf states cough. For the last few...

The decline, flexibility and geographical restructuring of employment in British retail banks.
This paper discusses the nature and determinants of recent employment decline and restructuring, including geographical restructuring, in British retail banks. As Cressey and Scott (1992: 83) have noted, 'the 1990s seem set to be a watershed of far-reaching staffing changes for the banking industry'. Since 1989, dramatic newspaper headlines and...

Citibank goes Islamic.
Citibank is scheduled to open an Islamic bank in Bahrain this summer, making it the first money-centre bank to set up an Islamic institution. Other European and US-based banks are watching closely, to see if Islamic and Western banking can profitably co-exist beyond the Muslic world. Many see this as...