Problems in the Commercial Banking Industry

Whatever the potential may be for a savings and loan type debacle in the commercial banking industry, a certainty is that the changing national and international financial services environments demand that commercial banks become more efficient in their operations if they hope to survive in the remainder of the 1990s. Operational efficiency must be pursued by commercial banking institutions in a number of different areas. An area of particular significance in this context is the costing of banking productsthe financial services provided by commercial banking institutions.

The problem area of banking product costing is exacerbated by the changing character and definition of the various types of financial services, and the alternative methods of the costing of such services, including the complex factor involved in such costing. This problem will be examined in the proposed research study.

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well being of individuals, thus, are, to a great extent, __________ 6J. E. Smith, "The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Structure of American Banking," in The Bankers' Handbook, 5th ed. (Homewood, Illinois: Dow JonesIrwin, 1992), 1148.  . . . determined by public policy, by those decisions which shape contemporary environments in communities, workplaces, homes, and schools. Public policy sets parameters for the mode and character of industrial and agricultural production, corporate management, and individual behavior.7 The savings and loan crisis was brought into sharp focus for the American people in the summer of 1989, when it had developed to a point where the Bush Administration and the Congress could no longer afford to behave as if the problem did not exist. By that time, hundreds of savings and loan associations were either insolvent, or were in danger of becoming insolvent in the relatively near future. Knowledgeable sources contended that the thrift industry as a whole was losing between $300 million and $400 million each month. Although the crisis became apparent to the American public in the summer of 1989, it was fullblown by that time, having developed into a serious problem by the mid1980
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