Development and breakthrough of information and communication technologies in all spheres and aspects significantly changed the way of conducting business. Digital transformation is not an option for organizations, no matter of their size, industry, maturity, number of employees, customers and so on. In order to survive and stay competitive in digital age, organizations need to be agile, flexible, ready to adjust on rapid changes in the business environment and create new values for customers. Traditional banks recognized all benefits and potentials reflected in usage of new digital technologies. Their focus is shifted on simplification of providing service on anytime in any place to potential customers. Through adoption of Big Data concept and customer-centric approach, banks are among those organizations which widely use new technologies in digital age with the aim to create and sustain competitive advantage. Banking industry is obviously changed and significantly reshaped by digitalization process. In this paper is presented the case of DBS bank from Singapore, which made an extraordinary turnover in its business toward digital transformation and positioned itself as the leading digital bank in the world..
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) have extraordinary importance for the development of the country, contributing to the higher level of its competitiveness. Some transition economies were focused on FDIs attraction, selecting banking sector as one to the most propulsive targets. Using empirical evidence on FDIs in Serbian banking sector during XXI century through granular analysis by differentiation between greenfield and brownfield investments, this paper pinpoints on major movements and perspectives of development. Also, beside the FDIs aspect, which is the central point of the paper, this paper summarize the major regulatory changes in accordance with Basel III standards aimed to increase the credibility of Serbian banking sector.
In past decade, joint impact of financial crisis and economic recessions, followed by inadequate loan disbursement practices, influenced on high NPLs ratios existence in certain countries. Negative effects of high NPL ratios on economic growth and credit lending activity signalized the necessity of urgent reaction in the direction of NPLs declining at satisfactory pace. This paper analyzes movements and trends in NPLs stock as a consequence of successful resolution of NPLs issue in Serbia and selected CESEE countries. Simultaneously, the paper highlights benefits, which are derived from successful implementation of NPLs resolution strategy, as well as the significance of preventing NPLs accumulation in financial systems. Due to avoidance of future emergence of new NPLs in significant extent (which could seriously deteriorate the stability of banking systems), authors concluded that within observed countries has been created a positive economic environment and sufficient incentives for further credit lending activity growth in prospective period.
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