The bank failure in Jamaica illustrates how negative mindsets and behaviors can devastate the financial system and disrupt economic growth. The primary role of any bank is to safeguard its customer’s money, offer interest rate on deposits, lend money to creditworthy individuals, and make sound investment decisions to maximize shareholder value. Because of rapid economic growth between the late 1980s and early 1990s in Jamaica, the Central National Bank (CNB) and Worker’s Savings and Loans Bank (WSLB) loosened their monetary policies, provided preferential interest rates and extended credit beyond what was reasonable to members of its own board of directors, managing directors, and officers of the bank. These actions posed significant risks to the bank and its future. Causes of the Bank’s Failure The Central National Bank (CNB) and Worker’s Savings and Loans Bank …show more content…
Organizations that only have top management as the board members are more susceptible to accounting malpractices. Members of the board should preferably own shares in the company to ensure diligence when it comes to the interests of the company. Apart from the Board of Governors, there should also be an audit committee in place to oversee the financial dealings of the bank. Members of the board and the audit committee should have basic financial knowledge. Some of the members should also be experts in finances so that they can detect any anomaly that may take place in terms of financial reporting. An overhaul of the regulatory framework is required to empower authorities to intervene immediately, and make improvements. New technology is required. Manual antiquated processes should be eliminated because this causes greater human error and poor
The World Bank. The Road to Sustained Growth in Jamaica. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, 2004. Print
Two individual employees wanted to complete their assignment for their company. But, did their strategy go about accuracy? Karel Svoboda works for Rogue Bank. Svoboda is a credit officer who needed Alena Robles, independent accountant, assists to evaluate and approved his employer’s extensions of credit to clients. In order to complete the task, Svoboda needed to access the nonpublic information about the clients’ personal information related to the company such as their profits and performances. Instead of appropriately following the company policy, Svoboda and Robles created a plan to utilize this data to exchange securities. According to their plan, Robles exchanged the securities of more than twenty unique organizations and benefitted by
The thrift financial Institution Superior Bank & Trust is one of the largest. It is located in Chicago and has many branches eighteen of which can be found in the Chicago area. It is owned by one of Chicago's wealthiest families the Pritzkers and Alvin Dworman a well-known real-estate investor from New York. With assets totaling $2.3 billion and deposits of $1.6 billion Superior Bank FSB got caught up in some problems with sub prime loans. This was their main focus. Sub prime lending is lending to people who are poor credit risks. They lend money or issue credit cards at high interest rates. Many companies have prospered using this method but most have gone under due to rising default rates and early prepayments by borrowers who can refinance at lower rates. Superior Bank & Trust's failure was directly related to sub prime lending.
The early decades of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of banks in the Caribbean largely as a convenience for the local governments. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, most Caribbean banks operated as an oligopoly with limited government influence – this directly translated into higher profits. However, over time, the banking environment could best be described as complex and dynamic. Competition increased, resulting into greater need for improved customer service, product innovation and cost reduction strategies. In order to achieve this, the banking sector was undergoing major structural reforms characterized by mergers and acquisitions. On July 23, 2001 Barclays and CIBC announced that they were in advanced discussions which were intended to lead to the combination of their retail, corporate and offshore banking operations in the Caribbean.
In October of 1929, the American economy took a huge hit from the stock market crash. Since so much people had invested their money and time in the banks, when the banks closed many had lost all of their money and were in the deep poverty. Because of this, one of my first actions of the New Deal was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Every bank in the United States had to abide by this rule. This banking program I launched not only ensured the safety and protection of deposits made my users of banks, but had also restored America’s faith in banks, causing people to once again use banks which contributed in enriching the economy. Another legislation I was determined to get passed...
Banking supervision regards two major points which are safety and soundness. This has to do with consumer protection laws, safety and soundness of a bank often gets measured by an examiner. The examiner has to perform an examination review on banks performances which is based off the banks management, financial condition, and its commands with regulations. This helps protect consumer’s rights towards consumer’s protection laws, also helps ensure consumers they are safe with their banks.
Upon closer examination and analysis of the social and economic conditions in the country, we were able to clearly grasp the consequences of the SAPs imposed by the Bretton Woods Institutions, specifically, the World Bank and the IMF. SAPs were explicitly designed for countries that are unable to meet debt obligations. In order for Jamaica to obtain loans to relieve their economic crises, they must implement certain policies in their country, as explained in the documentary. The policies set by the World Bank and IMF included a reduction on public sector spending, devaluation of currency, deregulation and privatization, and trade liberalization, all of which, as we will see in the following cases, made a harmful impact on the quality of life of Jamaican
When Jamaica’s government needed money, they went to the IMF for some of their loans, and entered these loans under an IMF conditionality agreement. IMF conditionality is when a government must adopt certain policies in order to be eligible for the loan from the IMF. These policies often make life even more difficult than when the country was “strapped-for-cash”. Governments have even been overturned due to unrest and disagreement with the IMF conditions.
(#9) The Center for Audit Quality published a report identifying the key players responsible for the mitigation of fraud risk to the investing public and other stakeholders as the board of directors and audit committee, the internal and external auditors, and the company’s management. (Elizabeth Radar 6). (#6) While many players share in the role to mitigate fraud risk, the position
If modern money is an illusion, then bank failures are an important means of reinforcing that illusion. Consider the alternative. If a bank made loan after loan, and these loans were not repaid, and the bank continued to do business year after year with mounting millions of bad loans on its books, wouldn't that look odd? People would question how the bank could continue to thrive despite so many bad loans. Would they maintain their confidence in the system if the banker cheerfully admitted that he made those loans by simply crediting the borrower's account, and that to do so cost him nothing? Some might wonder why the bank would not honor checks written on insufficient funds, if the banks create those funds from nothing. Corporations which are unable to meet their financial obligations to banks might wonder why they must work to repay the bank for something it got with a flick of a loan officer's pen.
The oversight responsibilities of the board, the CAE lacking of expertise or broad understanding of financial controls and responsibilities, and the understaffed internal audit functions lacking of independence and direct access to the board of directors contributed to the absence of internal controls. To begin with, the board should be retrained to achieve financial literacy to review financial reporting. Other than attending formal meetings, the board of directors should be more involved with the management. For the Audit Committee, the two members who were recruited as acquaintances to Brennahan need be replaced with experts who are more sufficiently knowledgeable about accounting rules beyond merely “financially literate”. Furthermore, the internal audit functions need to expand with different expertise commensurate with the expanded activities of the organization, testing financial reporting rather than internal controls from an operational perspective. The CAE should be more independent and proactive to execute audit plans, instead of following orders from the CFO, and initiate a direct and efficient communication between internal audit and audit
In this case study it was stated that there were a problem happen in the outsourcing for the Royal Bank of Scotland. What happen was there were an error that happen during the routine software upgrade that cause million of that bank customer cant access to their account. The error happen when one junior technician in India was accidently wiped all the information during the routine software upgrade. The member of staff that was working under the program for the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank and it was based in Hyderabad, India.
Commercial banks are the most important savings, mobilization and financial resource allocation institutions. Consequently, these roles make them an important phenomenon in economic growth and development. In performing this role, it must be realized that banks have the potential, scope and prospects for mobilizing financial resources and allocating them to productive investments (Olokoyo , 2011). The importance of efficient financial system is mostly felt in developing countries since their financial markets are underdeveloped and not strong thus banks plays a crucial role of integrating the whole economic sector of a country by serving as a vital source of finance for the enterprises (Ntow–Gyamfi
The Nigerian banking and financial services competitive environment has changed radically. From the heydays of the financial services and banking boom of the 1990s, when the country was dotted with over 200 financial institutions – commercial banks, merchant banks, community banks, mortgage banks, finance houses - to the new dispensation in which the country progressed fully into the era of universal banking with 24 banks operating in the country (Sanusi, 2012). The faltering Nigerian economy and the banking industry experienced a systemic crisis in 2009, triggered by the global economic crunch, which was followed by the collapse of the Nigerian stock market. After the stock market collapse of 2009, during which 70% of value was eroded, many
Legitimating governing bodies (The BOD and committees, HR committee, Internal audit department, quality assurance department)