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The Dodd-Frank Act was created to promote financial stability in the United States. However, no one is quite sure what it is yet. While action had to be taken and Dodd-Frank has some positives, Dodd-Frank, as it is deciphered today, has severe drawbacks. Since Dodd-Frank is only in its infancy, it is difficult to form an interim conclusion about its effects on agricultural lending at this point. After passing Dodd-Frank in 2010, the government began trying to figure out what it means. Four years later, they are still trying and are about half way through making the rules. This law essentially replaces Glass-Steagall, which was repealed several years ago. Many believe repealing Glass-Steagall was a big reason for the financial collapse of 2008. While Glass-Steagall was a short, easily understood document, Dodd Frank adds many more regulations and pages. This creates a long, bulky, confusing law that seems to be extremely tough to comprehend legally or as a banker. In this study, I try to balance the positives and negatives of Dodd-Frank to understand if it is more detrimental or beneficial to agricultural lending. While we find that Dodd-Frank does help keep banks from some of the risky investments that many believe led to the financial crisis, the added paperwork, compliance costs, and strain it puts on small banks can be worrisome. I interviewed several agriculture-lending professionals who regularly deal with the rules and regulations of Dodd-Frank to discover the impact the new law has on banks, their customers, and the economy as a whole. These interviews give insight into what Dodd-Frank means to the agriculture-lending market and what changes have had to occur since the law was passed. These interviews demonstrate that Dodd-Frank is largely looked down upon by the banking industry. The professionals interviewed are very experienced. After the extensive research, interviews, and discoveries that came of this study, it was concluded that Dodd-Frank seems to hurt the lending industry much more than it helps. One major concern is the strain Dodd-Frank puts on small banks and how it makes "too big to fail" banks even bigger.
ContributorsBettencourt, Bradley D (Author) / Thor, Eric (Thesis advisor) / Manfredo, Mark (Committee member) / Englin, Jeff (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
Description
This thesis examines the immediate post-World War II operational strategy of Valley National Bank of Arizona, a Phoenix-based institution in operation from 1899 until its 1992 acquisition by Ohio-based Banc One Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase). For the purposes of this study, the immediate post-war period is defined as 1944 to January 20, 1953, a span that opens with the bank's wartime planning efforts for the post-war period and ends with the 1953 retirement of bank president Walter Bimson. By the end of World War II, Valley National ranked as the largest financial institution in the eight-state Rocky Mountain region, as measured by total deposits. However, post-war regulatory issues, competitor expansion, and an inability to generate deposit volume sufficient to meet subject period loan demands challenged bank leaders seeking to maintain market share and grow company profitability and stock value. In response to these difficulties, the bank focused on a three-pronged operational strategy emphasizing advertising, market-appropriate deposit and loan product offerings, and an aggressive branching and acquisition campaign. This strategy did not result in unmitigated success as the bank did experience a decrease in average deposit account balances, lost mortgage market share, and undertook acquisition activity that later resulted in federal antitrust action. However, by the end of the subject period, the three-pronged strategy employed by the bank did result in an increase in deposit dollar market share, as measured by deposits controlled directly and indirectly by the institution, rising annual net profits, and substantial share price appreciation. The findings related to bank strategy and results presented in this thesis are based primarily upon information found in the 169-box Valley National Bank Collection housed at the Arizona Historical Society. Extensive newspaper research conducted using targeted date range and keyword searches and careful consideration of secondary source materials relating to the bank, the banking industry, and state, regional, and national politics, economics, and culture during the subject period provided additional information used in this study, and corroborated much of the material found in the Valley National Bank Collection files.
ContributorsSouthard, John (Author) / Warren-Findley, Jannelle (Thesis advisor) / Vandermeer, Philip (Committee member) / Gammage, Jr., Grady (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
Description
The microfinance industry provides financial services to the world's poor in hopes of moving individuals and families out of poverty. This dissertation document suggests that information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the microfinance industry, especially given recent advancements in mobile banking, Internet usage and connectivity, and a decreasing digital divide. These impacts are discussed in three essays. First, ICTs impact intermediation among various players in the microfinance industry. Second, ICTs impact the extent to which microfinance institutions (MFIs) extend their outreach to poorer or more geographically remote borrowers. Finally, ICTs impact the location of decision rights given newly forming peer-to-peer (P2P) social microlending organizations. As the microfinance industry increases its adoption and reliance on ICTs, new and interesting opportunities abound for researchers in the information systems discipline.
ContributorsWeber, David Michael (Author) / Riggins, Frederick J. (Thesis advisor) / Kulkarni, Uday R. (Thesis advisor) / Carey, Jane M. (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
Description
This thesis studies the technological change in the US commercial banking market and its influence on banks' lending practices. The second chapter provides some empirical facts.
The third chapter studies the welfare consequences of the destructive creation (bank
branches replaced by internet banking) of the US commercial banking
market following the Great Recession of 2009. Using a structural model,
we find that the cleansing effect (closure of unproductive bank branches)
of the recession increases the units of internet banking by about 56\% in 2016, compared to the case where the cleansing effect is absent. The share of internet banking in the retail service market is increased from 48\% to 60\% and the price of internet banking service is decreased by a factor of 16 by the cleansing effect of the Great Recession.
The two changes lowers the price of retail banking services in 2016 by 37\%: 53\% of the price reduction is attributable
to the replacement
of branches by internet banking and 47\% is attributable to the reduction of the price of internet banking. However, this cleansing effect also
results in a 2.5\% decrease in small business services in small cities.
These findings suggest that the cleansing effect of the recession benefits
retail consumers. However, small business lending may suffer.
The fourth chapter evaluates how information technology (IT) improvements contribute to the decline of small business lending in the US commercial banking market from 2002 to 2017. This paper estimates a general equilibrium dynamic model with banks that differ in size and choose the level of the transaction (hard information intensive) and relationship (soft information intensive) lending. The model shows that banks’ costs of evaluating borrowers’ hard information declined over this period by 46\%, and small business loans fell by 7\% (12\% in the data). This paper finds that banks’ higher reliance on IT to issue transaction loans is responsible for 37\% of the decline in the data, and the consolidation caused by IT improvements caused 22\% of the decline. Contrary to previous findings, this paper finds that when general equilibrium is considered, policy protecting small banks cannot increase small business lending.
The third chapter studies the welfare consequences of the destructive creation (bank
branches replaced by internet banking) of the US commercial banking
market following the Great Recession of 2009. Using a structural model,
we find that the cleansing effect (closure of unproductive bank branches)
of the recession increases the units of internet banking by about 56\% in 2016, compared to the case where the cleansing effect is absent. The share of internet banking in the retail service market is increased from 48\% to 60\% and the price of internet banking service is decreased by a factor of 16 by the cleansing effect of the Great Recession.
The two changes lowers the price of retail banking services in 2016 by 37\%: 53\% of the price reduction is attributable
to the replacement
of branches by internet banking and 47\% is attributable to the reduction of the price of internet banking. However, this cleansing effect also
results in a 2.5\% decrease in small business services in small cities.
These findings suggest that the cleansing effect of the recession benefits
retail consumers. However, small business lending may suffer.
The fourth chapter evaluates how information technology (IT) improvements contribute to the decline of small business lending in the US commercial banking market from 2002 to 2017. This paper estimates a general equilibrium dynamic model with banks that differ in size and choose the level of the transaction (hard information intensive) and relationship (soft information intensive) lending. The model shows that banks’ costs of evaluating borrowers’ hard information declined over this period by 46\%, and small business loans fell by 7\% (12\% in the data). This paper finds that banks’ higher reliance on IT to issue transaction loans is responsible for 37\% of the decline in the data, and the consolidation caused by IT improvements caused 22\% of the decline. Contrary to previous findings, this paper finds that when general equilibrium is considered, policy protecting small banks cannot increase small business lending.
ContributorsPang, Haiyan (Author) / Silverman, Dan (Thesis advisor) / Bharath, Sreedhar (Committee member) / Aragon, Georges (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
Description
The key chanllenge for Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) to get credit or loans is the fact that traditional financing business model in commercial banks cannot meet SMEs’ financial needs. Through extensive theoretical research, market analysis especially on SMEs’ behavioral characteristics and demands, serveral case studies on market-leading banks such as Wells Fargo and KASIKORN BANK, and the actual implementation experiences in China Minsheng Bank and Pingan Bank, this article proposes a new business model for servicing SMEs for commercial banks in China, which includes the principle and rationale of the business model, the technical foundation, business process and organizational structure, as well as the future transition of the model.
ContributorsZhao, Jichen (Author) / Chen, Hong (Thesis advisor) / Pei, Ker-Wei (Thesis advisor) / Chang, Chun (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
Description
In this thesis I examine the opportunities and challenges faced by the community banks in China. Rooted in the local communities, community banks generally focus on serving the local residents, farmers, and micro and small business enterprises (MSBE) through relationship building. Although community banks tend to be small relative to the other financial institutions, their unique market positions and business strategies have helped them to survive the competition and secure some market shares. Thus, it is important to understand the business strategies of community banks and to explore their future business opportunities and challenges.
I first provide a brief overview about the importance of local communities, community economy, and community banking, on the basis of an analysis about mismatch in the demand and supply of community financial services due to information asymmetry. Next, I review and analyze how commercial banks have utilized different types of information in their operations. I classify the information used by commercial banks into different categories and discuss their importance to the operations of commercial banks. After that, I conduct a case analysis to illustrate the role of non-financial information in the development of community banks’ business strategy. I conclude this thesis with a discussion of how community banks can better utilize data analysis to develop their core competencies in the era of “Big Data”.
I first provide a brief overview about the importance of local communities, community economy, and community banking, on the basis of an analysis about mismatch in the demand and supply of community financial services due to information asymmetry. Next, I review and analyze how commercial banks have utilized different types of information in their operations. I classify the information used by commercial banks into different categories and discuss their importance to the operations of commercial banks. After that, I conduct a case analysis to illustrate the role of non-financial information in the development of community banks’ business strategy. I conclude this thesis with a discussion of how community banks can better utilize data analysis to develop their core competencies in the era of “Big Data”.
ContributorsHou, Funing (Author) / Li, Feng (Thesis advisor) / Wang, Jiang (Thesis advisor) / Gu, Bin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
Description
This study investigates three issues that are relevant for the development of multinational investment banks in China. The first is about the domestic market conditions that are necessary for a country to develop multinational investment banks. The second issue is about the degree to which China has met these conditions. The last issue focuses on the potential strategies Chinese investment banks can undertake to become multinational corporations.
To address the first issue, I draw an important distinction between international investment banks and multinational investment banks. For an international investment bank to be regarded as a multinational, I propose that it must have a strong presence (i.e., holding at least one percent of the market share) in at least two of the seven major capital markets in the world. Using this criterion, I identify 25 multinational investment banks. I then analyze their home countries’ domestic market conditions and propose that the following six factors are important to the development of multinational investment banks: the size of the home country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the total capitalization of its domestic security market, the number of its Global 500 firms, the volume of its foreign direct investment (FDI), the internationalization of its currency, and the openness of its capital market to foreign investors.
By comparisons, I find that China’s domestic market conditions are comparable to the home countries of multinational investment banks with respect to the size of GDP, total market capitalization, the number of Global 500 firms, and the volume of FDI. What China lags behind are the internationalization of currency and the openness of capital market to foreign investors. Given the current trends of development, it is very likely that China will be able to catch up on the latter within ten years, thus meeting all the conditions necessary for the development of multinational investment banks.
Based on the above findings, I suggest that Chinese investment banks seize this historical opportunity, speed up the internationalization of their businesses, and learn from the experiences of global industry leaders to become truly multinational corporations.
To address the first issue, I draw an important distinction between international investment banks and multinational investment banks. For an international investment bank to be regarded as a multinational, I propose that it must have a strong presence (i.e., holding at least one percent of the market share) in at least two of the seven major capital markets in the world. Using this criterion, I identify 25 multinational investment banks. I then analyze their home countries’ domestic market conditions and propose that the following six factors are important to the development of multinational investment banks: the size of the home country’s gross domestic product (GDP), the total capitalization of its domestic security market, the number of its Global 500 firms, the volume of its foreign direct investment (FDI), the internationalization of its currency, and the openness of its capital market to foreign investors.
By comparisons, I find that China’s domestic market conditions are comparable to the home countries of multinational investment banks with respect to the size of GDP, total market capitalization, the number of Global 500 firms, and the volume of FDI. What China lags behind are the internationalization of currency and the openness of capital market to foreign investors. Given the current trends of development, it is very likely that China will be able to catch up on the latter within ten years, thus meeting all the conditions necessary for the development of multinational investment banks.
Based on the above findings, I suggest that Chinese investment banks seize this historical opportunity, speed up the internationalization of their businesses, and learn from the experiences of global industry leaders to become truly multinational corporations.
ContributorsLiu, Xin (Author) / Chang, Chun (Thesis advisor) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Chen, Hong (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
Description
Using historical data from the third-party payment acquiring industry, I develop a statistical model to predict the probability of fraudulent transactions by the merchants. The model consists of two levels of analysis – the first focuses on fraud detection at the store level, and the second focuses on fraud detection at the merchant level by aggregating store level data to the merchant level for merchants with multiple stores. My purpose is to put the model into business operations, helping to identify fraudulent merchants at the time of transactions and thus mitigate the risk exposure of the payment acquiring businesses. The model developed in this study is distinct from existing fraud detection models in three important aspects. First, it predicts the probability of fraud at the merchant level, as opposed to at the transaction level or by the cardholders. Second, it is developed by applying machine learning algorithms and logistical regressions to all the transaction level and merchant level variables collected from real business operations, rather than relying on the experiences and analytical abilities of business experts as in the development of traditional expert systems. Third, instead of using a small sample, I develop and test the model using a huge sample that consists of over 600,000 merchants and 10 million transactions per month. I conclude this study with a discussion of the model’s possible applications in practice as well as its implications for future research.
ContributorsZhou, Ye (Author) / Chen, Hong (Thesis advisor) / Gu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Chao, Xiuli (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
Description我国金融市场长期以来实行分业经营，但近年我国金融控股公司迅速发展，其体量极其庞大，对金融行业乃至整个经济体系产生系统性影响。随着金融全球化和经济金融化发展，金融业竞争日渐激烈，金融机构间跨行业以及金融集团化经营成为金融市场成熟完善的必然趋势。此外，中美贸易战迫使我国金融业加快开放步伐，意味着国内分业经营的金融机构将面临空前激烈的海外竞争。在内部需求以及外部压力的推动下，亟需提升我国金融机构的竞争力。在促使银行混业经营合规发展的同时，产生了一些问题：混业经营是否可以促进银行的绩效提升？混业经营通过何种渠道来作用于银行绩效？
本文通过案例分析与实证相结合的方式来解答上述问题。在案例分析部分，分别就银行拓展信托业务和保险业务两个方面展开分析，具体来说，在拓展信托业务方面，以浦发银行收购上海信托为案例分析了浦发银行开拓信托业务后对其经营绩效的影响；在拓展保险业务方面，以北京银行并购首创安泰为例，分析银保混业对北京银行带来的协同效应。在实证分析部分，首先，基于相关的理论以及文献提出三个假说：银行实施混业经营战略，可以提高银行的绩效水平；混业经营通过提高银行规模，增强规模经济优势，促进银行的绩效水平较高；混业经营会提高银行势力水平，从而提升银行的绩效水平。其次，建立回归模型来验证上述三个假说，研究了是否混业以及混业经营的程度对银行绩效的影响。最后，构建中介效应模型验证混业经营作用于银行绩效的渠道，本文主要检验了规模、市场势力两个渠道。
综合上述分析，本文认为混业经营会显著正向影响公司业绩，并且银行势力存在显著的中介传导效应，即银行通过混业经营增加了市场势力、提高了规模经济，从而影响了公司业绩。
案例分析结果支持上述结论，即混业经营会带来银行经营绩效的提升，但是同时也可能会带来短期的风险。
银行是否需要采取混业经营需要根据自身的经营情况，不能盲目扩张。业务的拓展需要与自身现有的业务形成互补，才能实现协同发展效应。在拓展业务的同时，需要注意开拓新的业务是否会给自身带来更多的经营风险。
关键词：混业经营；银行绩效；市场竞争；银行势力
本文通过案例分析与实证相结合的方式来解答上述问题。在案例分析部分，分别就银行拓展信托业务和保险业务两个方面展开分析，具体来说，在拓展信托业务方面，以浦发银行收购上海信托为案例分析了浦发银行开拓信托业务后对其经营绩效的影响；在拓展保险业务方面，以北京银行并购首创安泰为例，分析银保混业对北京银行带来的协同效应。在实证分析部分，首先，基于相关的理论以及文献提出三个假说：银行实施混业经营战略，可以提高银行的绩效水平；混业经营通过提高银行规模，增强规模经济优势，促进银行的绩效水平较高；混业经营会提高银行势力水平，从而提升银行的绩效水平。其次，建立回归模型来验证上述三个假说，研究了是否混业以及混业经营的程度对银行绩效的影响。最后，构建中介效应模型验证混业经营作用于银行绩效的渠道，本文主要检验了规模、市场势力两个渠道。
综合上述分析，本文认为混业经营会显著正向影响公司业绩，并且银行势力存在显著的中介传导效应，即银行通过混业经营增加了市场势力、提高了规模经济，从而影响了公司业绩。
案例分析结果支持上述结论，即混业经营会带来银行经营绩效的提升，但是同时也可能会带来短期的风险。
银行是否需要采取混业经营需要根据自身的经营情况，不能盲目扩张。业务的拓展需要与自身现有的业务形成互补，才能实现协同发展效应。在拓展业务的同时，需要注意开拓新的业务是否会给自身带来更多的经营风险。
关键词：混业经营；银行绩效；市场竞争；银行势力
ContributorsMiao, Rong (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Li, Feng (Thesis advisor) / Chiu, Tzu-Kuan (Committee member) / Shao, Benjamin (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2020
Description中国改革开放以来经济高速发展，一部分人群快速积累了大量财富，迫切需要专业机构对其财富进行有效管理，激发了中国私人银行市场的蓬勃发展。本文利用M银行全部私人银行网点的客户资产配置数据，以省级行政单位为划分，从核心公共资源供给角度出发，探究地区公共资源财政支出对私人银行客户数量增长和资产配置的影响。本文通过实证研究发现：（1）在人均公共安全财政支出较高、人均公共教育财政支出较低的地区，即公共安全资源相对匮乏、公共教育资源相对丰富的地区，私人银行客户规模增速较快；（2）在人均公共安全财政支出较高，即公共安全资源相对匮乏的地区，高净值人群会积极配置流动性良好的银行存款类产品和保险类产品，同时会减少配置高风险、高收益的理财类产品和基金类产品；（3）在人均公共医疗卫生财政支出较高，即公共医疗资源相对匮乏的地区，高净值人群会积极配置银行存款类产品，同时减少保险类产品和理财类产品的配置比例；（4）在人均公共教育财政支出较高，即公共教育资源相对匮乏的地区，高净值人群会积极配置银行保险类产品和理财类产品，同时减少存款类产品的配置比例。
ContributorsMa, Ying (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Wu, Fei (Thesis advisor) / Wang, Tan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2021