American Investment Council

Private assets deliver the strongest returns for retirees across America

Recent advancements in abrasive flow machining and abrasive materials:

Abrasive flow machining is a novel machining technique to polish, deburr and radius difficult-to-accessible surfaces.

Kinematics and material removal mechanisms of loose abrasive machining

The Future of CMP/polishing technologies.

Frontiers in manufacturing technology

In this work, we use the meshless material point method to study the influence of abrasive shape, orientation, rake angle, and infeed depth on the grinding result.

Stock market experience and investor overconfidence: Do investors learn to be overconfident?☆

Investor overconfidence, characterized by an excessive belief in the ability to generate superior portfolio returns, is a widely studied behavioral bias.

Dealer leverage and exchange rates: Heterogeneity across intermediaries

We find that the leverage of primary dealers has predictive power in forecasting exchange rates, but that it varies by a novel type of heterogeneity, the dealer’s headquarter jurisdiction, and over time

The role of CDS spreads in explaining bond recovery rates

We introduce two novel indices built from CDS market data capturing the level and uncertainty information embedded in credit spreads aggregated by industry, and study their role in predicting bonds recovery rates

Artificial intelligence and credit application processing: the role of embarrassment

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to make inroads into several industries, it has taken over tasks previously performed by humans

Exploring trust and outcome expectancy in FinTech digital payments: insights from the stimulus-organism-response model

This study uses the S-O-R theory to examine how trust and outcome expectancy influence usage and advocacy.

Generative AI in banking: empirical insights on integration, challenges and opportunities in a regulated industry

Empirical evidence on the practical application of generative AI in the banking sector

Agent-based modelling of credit card promotions

To develop an agent-based model to assist with determining optimal promotion strategies.

Crafting brand love: role of perceived brand localness, foreignness, coolness and consumer identities in digital retail banking

The effects of perceived brand localness and foreignness on brand love

International Journal of Bank Marketing

Embracing ambiguity: the unspoken key to sales success

Indian Journal of Finance and Banking

The Slowdown In Fintech Mergers & Acquisitions: Analyzing Major Global Deals And Sectoral Implications For 2023

Indian Journal of Finance and Banking

Microfinance And Women Microentrepreneurs: Key Variables Influencing Socio-Economic And Financial Success

Indian journal of finance and banking

The purpose of this study is to examine liquidity risk, interest rate risk and credit risk of a District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) having good financial position as per the C, A, E and L components of CAMELSC model.

Indian journal of finance and banking

Practicalities Of Agent Banking For Financial Inclusion In Rural Areas Of Bangladesh

Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) as an anti-aging health product – Promises and safety concerns

Elderly population has been progressively rising in the world, thus the demand for anti-aging heath products to assure longevity as well as to ameliorate age-related complications is also on the rise. Among various anti-aging health products, nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) has been gaining attentions of the consumers and the scientific community.

Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) as an anti-aging health product – Promises and safety concerns

Elderly population has been progressively rising in the world, thus the demand for anti-aging heath products to assure longevity as well as to ameliorate age-related complications is also on the rise. Among various anti-aging health products, nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) has been gaining attentions of the consumers and the scientific communit

Data-driven decision making via sales analytics: introduction to the special issue - Journal of Marketing Analytics

Supply Chain Management and Logistics How Important Interconnection Is for Business Success

Expediting the Implementation of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Management: a Facilitated Case Study on Re-using Timber in Construction Projects - Circular Economy and Sustainability

An increasing number of firms are aiming to implement closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) management to contribute to a more circular economy. However, for many of these firms, it is difficult to translate this strategic aim into fruitful operational decisions. They need to address many deep uncertainties and dynamic complexities in their supply chain system, which make their transition towards CLSC management challenging. This article aims to develop a better understanding of how supply chain actors taking steps towards CLSC management could be supported to reach higher levels of maturity in dealing with deep uncertainty and dynamic complexity. This is investigated in a single, facilitated, embedded case study: a future-oriented decision-making process regarding the use of timber with four real-world actors in the construction industry. The process is structured and supported with analyses, following a methodology based on the capability maturity approach. In this empirical context, the selected approach is shown to have positive effects on clarifying the potential impact of transitions to CLSC management. Furthermore, it stimulates important learning processes during the transition, and as such supports actors to achieve higher levels of maturity and to take further steps towards CLSC management. In this context, a conceptual distinction is made between ‘situational maturity’ and ‘mental maturity’, which enriches double-loop learning theory in the context of transitions.

Risk Management Magazine - Mitigating Resurgent Payment Fraud Risk

Flexibility and Resilience in Corporate Decision Making: A New Sustainability-Based Risk Management System in Uncertain Times - Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management

Risk management plays a key role in uncertain times, preventing corporations from acting rashly and incorrectly, allowing them to become flexible and resilient. A global turbulence such as the COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on individual companies and entire economic sectors, raising the question of whether a paradigm shift is necessary, in order to enable a new cycle of development that is much environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. This environmental and socio-economic context of profound uncertainty forces organizations to consider more carefully the risk factors affecting their business continuity, as well as how these factors relate to sustainability issues. However, there is a gap in knowledge about how risk management systems relate to sustainability management systems, and how both of them exert influence on business performance, especially from a theoretical point of view. The aim of this study is to address this gap, by developing a new interpretative framework for the analysis of risk management strategies in organizations. This approach has been identified in economic hermeneutics as an innovative methodological tool to improve the knowledge of risk and design the most appropriate management strategies. The paper provides two main results: the first one is the construction of a theoretical model that relates risk management to sustainability management; the second one is an operational framework of multidimensional risk assessment useful for analysis at different levels (business, competitive scenario and system). Finally, the model also makes it possible to carry out a sustainability assessment through risk evaluation in the perspective of the sustainable development goals.