Evaluation of Bancassurance Functioning in Selected Countries of the Financial Groups Erste Group Bank and UniCredit Group

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/FAI2016-2-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/FAI2016-2-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/FAI2016-2-2" target="_blank" >10.5817/FAI2016-2-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Evaluation of Bancassurance Functioning in Selected Countries of the Financial Groups Erste Group Bank and UniCredit Group

Original language description

This paper will evaluate the current state of cooperation between banks and insurance companies as well as internal integration of bancassurance products in financial groups Erste Group Bank and UniCredit Group. The evaluation is performed as of May 1, 2016. There shall be selected six countries which are part of the region Central and Eastern Europe, namely the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Croatia and Serbia. This paper aims at ascertaining whether or not there are similarities in how bancassurance functions in selected financial groups and countries. This paper shall apply a qualitative research approach. Bancassurance shall be analyzed, compared and evaluated from the viewpoint of integration of financial groups as well as of bancassurance products. There shall be conducted a critical analysis of literature available in the field of bancassurance models of cooperation and bancassurance functioning. There shall be set a theoretical base for evaluating the le vel of cooperation between banks and insurance companies and for evaluation an internal integration of bancassurance products. The theoretical base shall be compared with the current bancassurance practice within financial groups and countries. To evaluate bancassurance practice, this paper shall use data available on web sites, financial and annual reports of financial institutions. The qualitative research shall contain a detailed analysis, sorting and comparison of set theoretical bases. Finally, this paper shall ascertain which characteristics are similar and which are different in integration of financial groups and bancassurance products.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50206 - Finance

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-17796S" target="_blank" >GA16-17796S: Affiliation with financial conglomerate as a determinant of performance and risk of banks</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Financial Assests and Investment

ISSN

1804-5081

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

19-33

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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