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FINO Pay Tech Ltd.: Branchless Banking for the Rural Poor
Authors: Sharp, David J.; Bapat, Dhananjay; Handoo, Jatinder
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
This case presents FINO’s technology-based model for financial inclusion and the challenges presented to the Kohlapur district coordinator as he starts the process of building the local organization...
The Volcker Rule: Financial Crisis, Bailouts, and the Need for Financial Regulation
Authors: Minor, Dylan; Persico, Micola
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
In response to the potential collapse of large financial institutions in 2007, the U.S. government committed trillions of dollars to loans, asset purchases, guarantees, direct spending to provide fiscal stimulus, expansionary monetary policy, and bailouts of various private financial institutions. One outcome of the government's response was the proposal to enact into law the Volcker rule, which prohibited banks from engaging in proprietary trading, or trading for their own-not their clients'-benefit. Executives of large banks needed to decide how to respond to this potential change in their business environment...
JP Morgan: Lessons Learned
Author: Sapp, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Following the revelation of a US$2 billion loss on trading at JP Morgan’s chief investment office in London, the company’s board of directors is tasked with recommending changes to its risk management practices and corporate governance structure...
Was Insider Trading Ahead of Takeovers a Problem?
Authors: Foerster, Stephen R.; King, Michael R.; Sonmez, Fatma
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On January 6, 2010, Stanko Grmovsek was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for making profits of an estimated US$9 million over 14 years based on insider tips from his best friend from law school...
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms...
El Paso's Sale to Kinder Morgan
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
On October 16, 2011, El Paso agreed to sell itself to Kinder Morgan for just over $21 billion. Shareholders filed suit, arguing that the process was tainted by conflict and that a higher price could be obtained...
Sustaining a Social Venture: Transformation of Annapurna Mahila Mandal into Annapurna Pariwar
Author: Basargekar, Prema
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
AMM is a trust that provides micro credit and allied services to poor working women. It was established by a veteran freedom fighter and social entrepreneur and her late husband, a union leader, in 1975 in the wake of a decade-long millworkers' strike in Mumbai. AMM needed to develop a very clear vision as to which direction it should grow in order to become sustainable without losing its focus on the core objective of empowerment of poor women...
MF Global: Changing Stripes
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Dahya, Yasmin; Lee, Jenevieve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. 18 months later, and in the wake of a massive trade in European sovereign debt, the firm filed for bankruptcy, the 8th largest in U.S. history. As the firm failed it was discovered that over $1.6 billion in segregated customer assets was missing...
Nonmarket Action and the International Counter-Money Laundering Act (H.R. 3886)
Authors: Feddersen, Timothy; Rahimi, Kimia
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes the international problem of money laundering and summarizes U.S. bank regulations aimed at reducing money laundering activities. The introduction of H.R. 3886 in 2000 was one in a series of attempts to formalize U.S. banks' monitoring of their customers. The case can be used to introduce the distributive politics framework for analyzing non-market issues and formulating nonmarket strategies in the context of government institutions.
Lehman Brothers’ Fall
Authors: Kakani, Ram Kumar; Singhania, Vasudha; Stack, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case describes the financial undertakings of Lehman Brothers Inc., which was once the fourth-largest investment bank in the world. On September 15, 2008, less than a year after the bank presented its largest profit ever, the world watched its decline...
SKS Microfinance: The Sour Taste of Success
Author: Sunderasan, Srinivasan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The initial public offer of SKS Microfinance shares was seen as the initiation of a conflict between the interests of the company’s shareholders and the poor rural borrowers it was expected to serve. The provincial government brought out an ordinance effectively curbing microfinance lending and recovery operations, and the Reserve Bank of India issued a notification placing caps on interest rates, margins and specifying minimum tenures for relatively larger loan sizes. Was this the end of the road for the microfinance movement in India?
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies—along with fund managers and other investors—on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term investments, threatening the performance of both individual firms and the U.S. economy. I argue that short-termism also invites institutional corruption...
Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves
Author: Mayo, Mike
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2011
Veteran sell side Wall Street analyst Mike Mayo writes about one of the biggest financial and political issues of our time – the role of finance and banks in the US. He has worked at six Wall Street firms, analyzing banks and protesting against bad practices for two decades.
Gulf Bank: Re-Building a Bank
Authors: Busaba, Walid; Khokher, Zeigham; Safieddine, Assem; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In December 2009, about a year after it suffered a crisis after clients walked away from massive derivative losses, Gulf Bank’s new chief executive officer is trying to changes the way Gulf Bank operates and is governed.
SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Saleman, Yannick
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices...
Islamic Banking Lessons for the Financial Sector
Authors: Ribera, Alberto; Etzold, Veit M.; Wackerbeck, Philipp
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
As they try to strengthen their capital and reduce their risk operations, whom should governments, regulators and financial bosses turn to for inspiration? A good place to start would be to study those banks that have performed best since the crisis...
Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009
Authors: Moss, David; Bolton, Cole
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse - which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. In particular, many wondered how the disaster had happened in the first place: what exactly had caused the brutal financial crisis of 2007-2009?
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Author: Henriques, Diana
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Times Books
Publication Year: 2011
Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Author: Lewis, Michael
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Year: 2011
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.
CME Group
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
CME Group operates the world's largest trading platform for futures and options based on agricultural commodities. New interest in commodities as an asset class, and new regulatory initiatives arising from the recent financial crisis, create an unusual set of opportunities and challenges for its leaders.
The Investment Bank Job: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Goldman Sachs
Author: Schrieber, Andrew
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
This case study examines the evolution of the modern financial industry and the organizational and structural shifts within Wall Street banks that led to the crisis at Goldman Sachs.
Greed, Negligence, or System Failure? Credit Rating Agencies and the Financial Crisis
Author: Selig, Kevin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Publication Year: 2011
Credit rating agencies are responsible for rating the credit-worthiness of a wide variety of investment opportunities. While the agencies’ failure (out of greed or negligence) to properly assess the risk of these instruments leading up to the 2008 financial crisis is well-known, this case explores more encompassing systemic factors, including shifts in corporate culture, that led both to agency failures and the global financial crisis.
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A, B)
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release," inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a notional value of $29 trillion dollars. The Release was not welcomed by other regulators or by the Clinton administration. The case objective is to understand one of the failures that contributed to the financial crisis and to explore what policy makers, regulators and business leaders could have done differently.
Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship
Authors: Kaplan, Robert S.; Nohria, Nitin; Creo, Ben
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The Chief Executive Officer of Freddie Mac is facing a challenge: to lead Freddie Mac, build its culture, upgrade its operations and generally prepare the organization for re-emerging from conservatorship. In the background, housing prices continue to deteriorate and the company continues to lose money.
Note: Regulation of Hedge Fund Managers in the U.K. Before and After the Global Financial Crisis
Authors: Pozen, Robert C.; Hammerle, Melissa
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the financial crisis of 2008.
The Future of Finance
Authors: Turner, Adair; Haldane, Andrew; Woolley, Paul; Wadhwani, Sushil; Goodhart, Charles; Smithers, Andrew; Large, Andrew; Kay, John; Wolf, Martin; Boone, Peter; Johnson, Simon; Layard, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science
Publication Year: 2010
The financial crash of 2008-9 has been the most damaging economic event since the Great Depression – affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The most immediate problem now is to prevent a repeat performance.
Note on the Banking Industry
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Waggoner, Scott
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This Note provides an overview of the structure and function of the Banking industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm."
Note on the Asset Management Industry
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Waggoner, Scott
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
This Note provides an overview of the structure and function of the Asset Management industry, with a primary focus on the U.S. It was designed to support the HBS MBA course "Managing the Financial Firm."
Post-Crisis Compensation at Credit Suisse (A, B, C)
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
On October 20, 2009 Brady Dougan, the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, announced a new compensation plan for the bank. The announcement had followed quickly on the heels of the G-20 meeting the prior month where, in the wake of the financial crisis, the major governments had laid out a set of guidelines for compensation in the financial industry.
The EC Rains on Oracle/Sun
Author: Goldberg, Lena G.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal.
Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (A, B, C)
Authors: Goldberg, Lena G.; Obenchain, Tiffany
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs' CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options...
Web-Conference: Corporate Governance in the Current Economic Climate
Authors: Koppell, Jonathan; Davis, Gerald; Gentile, Mary C.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
On October 27th, 2009, Aspen CBE hosted a web-conference on Corporate Governance in the Current Economic Climate.
Converting Failed Financial Institutions into Mutual Organisations
Authors: Michie, Jonathan; Llewellyn, David T.; Anderson, David; Eyre, Nick; Hunt, Peter; Mills, Chris; Palmer, Jeremy
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Publication Year: 2009
The immediate issue is whether the failed financial institutions that were taken into public ownership could be re-launched as mutuals rather than as plcs.
Microfin
Authors: Chu, Michael; Kramer, Enrique
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America.
Microfinance in Asia
Author: Knowledge@SMU
Product Type: Web Sites; Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge@SMU
Publication Year: 2009
For many of the rural poor and socially-disadvantaged in developing countries, microfinancing is a key source of capital. With loans of just hundreds or even tens of dollars, this group, commonly known as “the under-banked”, has been able to jump-start small businesses of their own and achieve a certain level of economic success. As such, more lenders – both public and private – have been willing to accept the risks of working with this stratum of borrowers. However, with the global economy looking bleak and financial regulations tightening across the board, microfinancing activities have been sharply reduced.
Webcast: AIG Bonuses, Contractual Obligation, and Executive Compensation
Authors: Finocchio, Robert; Diamond, Stephen; Hanson, Kirk O.
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Santa Clara University
Publication Year: 2009
A panel discussion responds to AIG bonuses, income inequality, and whether regulation is the best approach to executive compensation (video).
Callmate Telips (A, B)
Author: Ahmed, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Callmate Telips Telecom Limited (Callmate) was in the telecommunications business, an industry in which the regulatory controls were gradually being undone by the government of Pakistan as part of an economic deregulation program. Callmate was the pioneer in the payphones and prepaid calling card industries in Pakistan. The events in the case demonstrate that the company strategy, as well as aggressive share price management, could be dangerous if there were no checks on the directors.
The Xiamen PX Project: the Rule of Contract or Citizens in China Today
Authors: Zhang, Weigi; Abrami, Regina M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines the effect of environmental activism on China's investment climate, focusing on the petrochemical sector. This case is suitable for courses in international business, business and society, and doing business in China and/or the developing world.
AIG - Blame for the Bailout
Authors: McNichols, Maureen; Blair, Nathan T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case takes an in-depth look at the events and causes leading to the U.S. government bailout of American International Group. Source material includes testimony before Congress, AIG's public disclosures and various news articles.
CalPERS' Emerging Equity in the Markets Principles
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case is an example of innovation in the investment management process and raises issues about broadening investment criteria into environmental, social and governance issues.
The Other Banking Drama: Those Secret Swiss Accounts
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2009
While world markets are teetering in a global banking meltdown, another banking drama is playing out in Switzerland that could end the way private banking has been done there for centuries.
Getting It Right: Making the Most of an Opportunity to Update Market Regulation
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2009
As the global economic crisis continues, politicians and investors are escalating calls for new regulatory scrutiny of financial markets.
Banco do Nordeste's CrediAmigo
Author: Mugica, Yerina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Publication Year: 2009
Banco do Nordeste and the World Bank decided to develop and launch a pilot low-income bank, targeting micro-entrepreneurs from informal sectors.
The 'Bernard Madoff' Financial Scam
Authors: Gupta, V.; Chakraborty, B
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines the 'Ponzi Scheme' operated by Bernard Madoff, a prominent Wall Street trader and former Chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, through the investment management and advisory division of his firm, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
Management Buy-Out Of Merkur
Authors: Slapnicar, S.; Garrod, N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ECCH
Publication Year: 2009
In this case, issues of agency, corporate governance and accounting incentives are raised arising from buyouts of companies by their incumbent management. The buyout described in this case took place in Slovenia - a full member of the European Union - under a regulatory and reporting environment wholly compliant with international accounting standards. This case is based on the details of how a small group of managers purchased the firm which they ran, now valued at several hundred million euros, for a personal investment of only a few thousand euros. It is suitable to be used as a basis for exploring: (1) issues of agency and incentives; (2) pre- and post-acquisition accounting choices; (3) corporate governance; (4) valuation; (5) growth issues; and (6) ethics.
Do the SEC's New Rating Agency Rules Have Any Bite?
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
On December 3 the Securities and Exchange Commission approved tighter regulations on the credit rating agencies, hoping curbs on conflicts of interest will prevent the kind of ratings-grade inflation that played such a key role in the credit crisis.
Hedging Their Bets: How Hedge Funds Can Curb Critics and Avoid Regulation
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Hedge fund managers oversee $1.9 trillion in assets, but no one knows what they invest in or even what those assets are actually worth.
H&R Block 2006
Authors: Tufano, Peter; Roy, Arijit; McClintock, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund lending product.
How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
In the middle of a battle, it's hard to know what the landscape will look like after the smoke clears.
Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy
Author: Jacoby, Sanford M.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: University of California, Los Angeles
Publication Year: 2008
We live in an era of financial development. Since 1980, capital markets have expanded around the world; capital shuttles the globe instantaneously. Shareholder concerns drive executive decision-making and compensation, while the fluctuations of stock markets are a source of public anxiety.
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