Standard trust bank PLC commercial operations in August 1997 as a commercial bank with five business offices driven by a board of directors, a management team and staff focused on revolutionizing the Nigerian banking industry. Following the resolution of the board of directors at an extra-ordinary general meeting on 19th July 2002, the bank because a public limited company (PLC). From the humble beginning, they have been able to record modest achievements, which makes the today one of the leading banks in Nigeria.
Standard trust bank remains one of the most stable and consistently growing backs in the country. Efficient assets actualization and management resulted in the growth of balance sheet size from #984 million in 1997 to #21,343 billion in 1999 and #69,945 billion by the and of 2001/2002 financial year. The bank has a full range of banking services and products provided to delight their customer. They include personal/corporate saving account, standard care account, personal/corporate current account. Domiciliary account standard flexi-fixed account and so on.
In any business outfit, be it government or privately owned, the moment of decision taking present challenges to the executives.
Decision taking is a life wire of any organization as the future growth of the enterprise depends largely on the soundness and unsoundness of such decisions. For the banking sector in particular, the importance of valid decision in enhancing it’s growth and profitability cannot be over stretched. The banking industry in Nigeria is in a state of chaos.
Most of the banks are classified as distressed, some of them have been liquidated while some are ordered to recapitalize or face liquidation. The dangerous trend in the banking industry has sent a disturbing have to the national economy. In a rapid reaction to salvage the banking industry and save the economy from collapes the government enacted the failed and established a tribunal to try the former decision makers and takers in the banks who have contribute to the banks failure.
The utilization of management information on banks landing decisions will make a lot of impact in enhancing, banking growth and productivity. The usefulness of management information cannot be restricted to the landly decision as it is very useful in all operations in the banks.
Osisoma (1990) classified management information into three parts which include store-keeping information, attention directing information and problem solving information. Management information contain such details as regard banks financial standing and long term.
Viability, some of the ways banks lend money are through banks overdraft and other advances it can make to various categorize of its customers. Before banks land money they are interested in the ability of their customers to pay interested in the ability of their customers to pay interest on borrowed loan as well as their ability to refund the loan at the appropriate time.
Management information is indispensable in granting such loan, overdraft and other advances also in monitoring the realized of the disbursed funds. Before the decision are reached management information should be sought for to provide the choices as well as the outcome of the possible decision. Having critically estimated the cost of each alternative and bearing in mind that the major aim of banks is maximizing profit, the management of the bank use the data and basis, provided in management information of in taking useful decision that is in line with the goals of the organization.
Management information represent the real life situation of the banks, which can not be ignored in lending. It is very useful in planning, co-ordinating and control, moreover, with management information every lending decision will be based on data that have first of all to be selected, verified and subsequently utilized for growth, profitability and viability of the bank.
Recent development in the banking industry in Nigeria have shown that most of the bank management and decision takers have glossly violate in their operation. Most affected in the violation is the banking regulation the misuse, abuse and total neglect of management information in bank lending decision.
Because of the importance of management information in enhancing banks growth and development, we have decided to investigate it’s impacts in bank lending decisions especially in this era when so many banks are distressed and liquidated. The problems rocking the banking sector in Nigeria cannot go unaccounted for by the accountants who are first and foremost concerned for the accountants who are first and foremost concerned with accountability and probity in financial industry, business entities and government department. As student of Banking and finance is useful in bank lending decision. The bank is stable and healthy and we want 40 know whether management information contributes to the financial standing of this bank.
The problems in the banking sector has not only contributed to the crippling of the nations economy but has also negatively affected their hard earned money in the bank only to be told that bank have no money to pay them. This unfortunate develop cannot continue indefinitely.
We are required to tackle the problem, in this regard, it is pertinent to understand the impact of management information in causing eradicating and addressing the problem facing banks.
Do knowledge of banks not earnings, working assets, customers account in the banks financial study have implication in it’s landing decision? Is management information necessary for the future investment growth and development of the bank? Answer to these questions posed above constitutes the lore problem of this study.
This study intends to achieve the following objectives
This study is significant in the sense that it will look at the impact of management information on bank lending decision at standard trust bank PLC which has branches all over the Federation.
It is hoped that through this study, some good contribution would be made to the existing stock of knowledge in this field.
This study will also act as a guide to decision makers in restructuring the lending policy of their bank.
The writer will collect data thoroughly examine and gather information with reference to standard trust bank PLC to know the extent of their bank lending decision.
It is not easy carring out a research of this magnitude. In this study we may be handicapped in certain area. The research is student who will be combining the work with other rigorous academic activities in the campus.
As a result, the limited available time will be shared between this study to a certain decree.
Another limiting factor is fund. The researcher is handicapped financially. He is a student who depended solemnly on meager financial assistance to survive on campus .The huge financial requirement of a study of the type may not fort coming. Further more, due to sensitive and probing nature of this study all the necessary co-operation from the bank official may not be as are may have expected. The problem may even be compounded by the atmosphere of secrecy and security which guide the banking operations.The limitation not with standing the researcher will employ all necessary methodologies and give up more of their times and funds to accomplish the work to the required standard.
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