Beyond the Financial Horizon: A Critical Review of Social Responsibility in Latin American Credit Unions DOI Open Access

Katherin Carrera-Silva,

Olga Maritza Rodríguez Ulcuango, Paula Abdo-Peralta

и другие.

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(18), С. 7908 - 7908

Опубликована: Сен. 10, 2024

Credit unions in Latin America play an important role the financial system, making a significant contribution to achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through their focus on inclusion, sustainability, and economic resilience. Assessing social responsibility these cooperatives ensures ethical, sustainable operations that benefit population. Unlike traditional institutions, are based principles focused mutual benefit, democratic participation, toward members community. This critical literature review, conducted scientific databases, synthesizes findings credit unions. The system is relevant for global stability growth, comprising institutions like facilitate capital flow. It operates instruments, intermediaries, markets, ensuring efficient resource allocation risk management. Effective management involves planning, organizing, directing, controlling resources achieve integrating responsibility. highlight cooperative principles, emphasizing member service, community development, practices over profit maximization, thereby fostering inclusion ethical business practices. In conclusion, provide affordable services while promoting values solidarity equity. However, as entities directly linked communities, it essential them monitor actions terms measure ensure impact society its context. Finally, future research should balancing viability with responsibility, exploring innovative models, governance frameworks, technological impacts.

Язык: Английский

Advanced risk management solutions for mitigating credit risk in financial operations DOI Creative Commons

Anwulika Ogechukwu Scott,

Prisca Amajuoyi,

Kudirat Bukola Adeusi

и другие.

Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(1), С. 212 - 223

Опубликована: Май 29, 2024

Advanced risk management solutions are essential for mitigating credit in financial operations, particularly today's volatile economic environment. This Review explores the innovative approaches and technologies being utilized to enhance safeguard institutions against potential losses. Credit risk, possibility that a borrower will default on their obligations, poses significant threat stability. Traditional methods of assessing managing such as scoring historical data analysis, no longer sufficient address complexities modern markets. offer more robust dynamic tools identifying, assessing, risk. One key advancements this field is integration big machine learning algorithms. By analyzing vast amounts from diverse sources, can gain deeper insights into behavior, market trends, indicators. Machine models predict probabilities with greater accuracy, allowing proactive mitigation strategies. Additionally, real-time monitoring systems have become increasingly prevalent. These provide continuous oversight portfolios, enabling detect early warning signs defaults take timely action. analytics visualization facilitate identification emerging risks implementation targeted interventions. Another crucial component advanced use stress testing scenario analysis. techniques simulate various conditions assess impact helping prepare adverse scenarios develop contingency plans. Furthermore, blockchain technology promising tool enhancing transparency reducing fraud transactions. providing secure immutable record histories transactions, improve trust reliability assessments. In conclusion, transforming way mitigate leveraging data, learning, monitoring, testing, technology, achieve accurate assessments implement effective innovations not only stability resilience operations but also contribute trustworthy system.

Язык: Английский

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Effective credit risk mitigation strategies: Solutions for reducing exposure in financial institutions DOI Creative Commons

Anwulika Ogechukwu Scott,

Prisca Amajuoyi,

Kudirat Bukola Adeusi

и другие.

Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(1), С. 198 - 211

Опубликована: Май 29, 2024

Credit risk remains a critical concern for financial institutions, especially in the context of economic uncertainties and volatile market conditions. This paper examines importance credit mitigation strategies presents solutions reducing exposure institutions. The research focuses on various employed by banks other institutions to manage effectively. begins with an overview its significance banking industry. It discusses types faced including default risk, concentration systemic risk. then highlights impact these risks institutions' balance sheets profitability. Next, explores different used These include diversification portfolios, collateralization loans, derivatives, insurance. advantages disadvantages each strategy provides examples how have been implemented successfully Furthermore, role regulatory authorities overseeing management practices framework compliance requirements mitigating Finally, concludes discussion future emphasizes need continuous innovation adaptation new conditions requirements. also stresses integrating into overall frameworks ensure comprehensive effective approach managing Overall, this valuable insights offers practical serves as useful resource professionals, regulators, policymakers seeking enhance their understanding

Язык: Английский

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Leveraging predictive analytics for strategic decision-making: Enhancing business performance through data-driven insights DOI Creative Commons

Abayomi Abraham Adesina,

Toluwalase Vanessa Iyelolu,

Patience Okpeke Paul

и другие.

World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 22(3), С. 1927 - 1934

Опубликована: Июнь 30, 2024

This paper explores the transformative role of predictive analytics in enhancing strategic decision-making and business performance. It delves into components analytics, including data mining, machine learning, statistical techniques. highlights its historical evolution technological enablers like big platforms, cloud computing, AI. The examines how improves profitability, efficiency, market share by providing actionable insights from raw data. also discusses emerging trends such as advancements AI, Internet Things (IoT), real-time while addressing associated risks privacy ethical considerations. conclusion underscores necessity adopting for sustainable growth competitive advantage today's data-driven environment.

Язык: Английский

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Trends, insights, and future prospects of renewable energy integration within the oil and gas sector operations DOI Creative Commons

Darlington Eze Ekechukwu,

Peter Simpa

World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(1), С. 152 - 167

Опубликована: Май 29, 2024

The integration of renewable energy within the operations oil and gas sector has emerged as a pivotal trend driven by environmental concerns, regulatory pressures, technological advancements. This review explores current trends, key insights, future prospects associated with adoption in sector. Trends indicate notable shift towards incorporating sources such solar, wind, hydrogen into traditional companies. transition is motivated need to reduce carbon emissions, enhance operational efficiency, diversify portfolios alignment sustainability goals. Companies are increasingly investing projects, leveraging their expertise infrastructure capitalize on emerging opportunities Insights gleaned from ongoing initiatives underscore multifaceted benefits integrating operations. By deploying technologies, companies can mitigate impacts, optimize resource utilization, security. Moreover, renewables offers potential cost savings through reduced reliance fossil fuels access government incentives aimed at promoting clean deployment. Looking ahead, appear promising yet challenging. Advancements coupled declining costs, expected accelerate rates drive widespread implementation across industry. However, challenges intermittency, grid integration, limitations pose significant hurdles that must be addressed innovation strategic planning. Furthermore, evolving landscape geopolitical dynamics may influence pace scope Policy frameworks deployment, pricing mechanisms, international agreements climate action likely shape trajectory industry coming years. represents transformative far-reaching implications for corporate strategies. embracing renewables, not only risks but also position themselves long-term competitiveness rapidly landscape.

Язык: Английский

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Advanced data analytics in internal audits: A conceptual framework for comprehensive risk assessment and fraud detection DOI Creative Commons

Oluwatosin Ilori,

Nelly Tochi Nwosu,

Henry Nwapali Ndidi Naiho

и другие.

Finance & Accounting Research Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(6), С. 931 - 952

Опубликована: Июнь 13, 2024

In the face of increasing complexity and rapid technological advancements, traditional internal audit methods are becoming inadequate for comprehensive risk assessment effective fraud detection. Advanced data analytics offers a transformative approach that enhances effectiveness audits. This concept paper presents framework integrating advanced into processes, aiming to provide more robust management improved detection capabilities. Integrate diverse sources, including financial, operational, external data, holistic view organization's landscape. Implement rigorous governance practices ensure accuracy, consistency, reliability. Use machine learning algorithms predictive identify patterns, predict future risks, detect anomalies. Employ real-time continuous monitoring, enabling timely response emerging threats. Develop adaptive models can evolve with changing business environments risks. Utilize data-driven insights prioritize risks based on their potential impact likelihood. Deploy uncover complex schemes might miss. Conduct scenario-based analysis patterns strengthen preventive measures. focus efforts high-risk areas, enhancing efficiency Incorporate procedures execution, reducing manual precision. provides deeper insights, proactive management. Real-time significantly enhance ability prevent fraud, mitigating financial reputational damage. Data-driven processes streamline activities, allowing auditors high-value tasks overall cycle time. Analytics accurate supporting better decision-making in prevention. Secure commitment from senior support integration Establish oversee implementation alignment organizational objectives. Invest platforms tools processing analysis. Ensure security measures protect sensitive information. Train professionals techniques tools, fostering culture innovation. pilot projects test refine framework, using lessons learned scale up across organization. Integrating audits significant benefits, enhanced management, detection, increased efficiency. By adopting this conceptual organizations assets, compliance, maintain stakeholder confidence an increasingly digital environment. The auditing is data-driven, must embrace transformation remain competitive secure. Keywords: Fraud Detection, Risk Assessment, Internal Audits, Data Analytics, Conceptual Frameworks.

Язык: Английский

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A comprehensive review of renewable energy integration for climate resilience DOI Creative Commons

Darlington Eze Ekechukwu,

Peter Simpa

Engineering Science & Technology Journal, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(6), С. 1884 - 1908

Опубликована: Июнь 6, 2024

The integration of renewable energy sources into existing systems is imperative for enhancing climate resilience and mitigating the adverse impacts change. This comprehensive review explores multifaceted aspects resilience, focusing on key challenges, strategies, opportunities. By analyzing latest research findings case studies, this offers insights diverse approaches to their implications at local, regional, global scales. begins by examining significance as a crucial component strategies. It delves interconnectedness between deployment adaptation, highlighting potential enhance security, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, build community climate-related hazards. Subsequently, challenges associated with integration, including intermittency, grid stability, socioeconomic considerations. discusses innovative solutions technological advancements aimed overcoming these such storage technologies, smart systems, demand-side management Moreover, investigates role policy frameworks, regulatory mechanisms, financial incentives in facilitating resilience. assesses effectiveness various instruments governance structures promoting fostering climate-resilient systems. Furthermore, highlights importance stakeholder engagement, involvement, capacity-building initiatives ensuring successful implementation projects. emphasizes need inclusive participatory planning decision-making, particularly vulnerable marginalized communities. Overall, provides valuable complex dynamics synthesizing knowledge identifying emerging trends, it informs policymakers, practitioners, researchers about opportunities leveraging strategy building rapidly changing world. Keywords: Renewable Energy, Integration, Climate, Resilience, Policy.

Язык: Английский

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The intersection of renewable energy and environmental health: Advancements in sustainable solutions DOI Creative Commons

Darlington Eze Ekechukwu,

Peter Simpa

International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(6), С. 1103 - 1132

Опубликована: Июнь 6, 2024

The intersection of renewable energy and environmental health represents a critical nexus where advancements in sustainable solutions hold significant promise for addressing pressing global challenges. This review explores the intricate relationship between technologies their impact on health, highlighting urgent need transformative initiatives. By examining adverse effects traditional sources air quality, water purity, land integrity, it becomes evident that transition to is imperative mitigating these risks. Through case studies technological innovations, this showcases tangible benefits integrating systems, including reductions pollution-related illnesses, improvements sanitation, mitigation degradation. However, despite numerous advantages, challenges such as economic barriers, limitations, policy obstacles hinder widespread adoption. Overcoming requires collaborative efforts across sectors innovative approaches research development. prioritizing investments infrastructure, implementing supportive policies, fostering international cooperation, society can pave way healthier more future. underscores importance advancing at emphasizing urgency collective action address complex facing our planet. Keywords: Renewable Energy, Environmental Health, Sustainable Solutions, Advancements, Technological Innovations.

Язык: Английский

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A comprehensive review of innovative approaches in renewable energy storage DOI Creative Commons

Darlington Eze Ekechukwu,

Peter Simpa

International Journal of Applied Research in Social Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(6), С. 1133 - 1157

Опубликована: Июнь 6, 2024

As the world confronts challenges of climate change and strives to transition towards sustainable energy systems, integration renewable sources into power grid has become paramount. However, inherently intermittent nature renewables necessitates effective reliable storage solutions ensure a stable resilient supply. This paper presents thorough comprehensive review innovative approaches undertaken in field storage. The exploration begins with detailed analysis various sources, including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, outlining their unique contributions global landscape. Emphasis is placed on associated intermittency critical role that advanced technologies play mitigating these challenges. encompasses an in-depth examination existing technologies, ranging from well-established such as lithium-ion batteries pumped hydro newer developments like sodium-ion flywheel Each technology scrutinized for its advantages, limitations, current deployment scenarios. Furthermore, delves cutting-edge innovations, latest advancements battery solid-state organic flow batteries. Additionally, it explores emerging thermal gravity-based storage, providing holistic understanding evolving Through economic considerations, environmental impacts, regulatory landscape, highlights complex interplay between technology, policy, market forces shaping future concludes insights potential strategies, recommendations research directions, policy industry initiatives fostering ecosystem. aims contribute ongoing discourse advancing more future. Keywords: Innovative, Renewable, Energy, Storage, Review.

Язык: Английский

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Strategic financial decision-making in sustainable energy investments: Leveraging big data for maximum impact DOI Creative Commons

Luther Kington Nwobodo,

Chioma Susan Nwaimo,

Mayokun Daniel Adegbola

и другие.

International Journal of Management & Entrepreneurship Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(6), С. 1982 - 1996

Опубликована: Июнь 24, 2024

In the context of escalating environmental concerns and transition towards a greener economy, sustainable energy investments have emerged as pivotal area for financial growth innovation. This paper outlines strategic framework decision-making in investments, emphasizing transformative role big data. By integrating data analytics into investment process, stakeholders can enhance market analysis, risk assessment, performance monitoring, predictive modeling, leading to more informed effective strategies. The delves various sources, analytical tools, technologies that facilitate collection, processing, interpretation vast amounts information. Additionally, it presents case studies illustrating successful applications solar wind projects, highlighting best practices common challenges. discussion extends future trends, including advancements artificial intelligence machine learning, which are poised further revolutionize sector. concludes with recommendations developing data-driven approach, building robust infrastructures, fostering culture continuous learning adaptation. leveraging data, investors maximize impact their drive growth, contribute global transition. Keywords: Sustainable Energy Investments, Big Data Analytics, Strategic Financial Decision-Making, Market Analysis, Risk Assessment, Predictive Modeling.

Язык: Английский

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Exploring financing models for clean energy adoption: Lessons from the United States and Nigeria DOI Creative Commons

Portia Oduro,

Peter Simpa,

Darlington Eze Ekechukwu

и другие.

Global Journal of Engineering and Technology Advances, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 19(2), С. 154 - 168

Опубликована: Май 29, 2024

This paper examines financing models for clean energy adoption, drawing insights from experiences in the United States and Nigeria. It underscores significance of need to explore effective mechanisms facilitate its widespread adoption. Through an analysis current state adoption both countries, existing initiatives challenges are outlined. Lessons gleaned successful States, including government incentives, public-private partnerships, renewable credits, then explored. These lessons serve as a foundation assessing how similar approaches can be adapted Nigerian context. Specific attention is given unique facing Nigeria, such infrastructure limitations socioeconomic disparities, tailored address these obstacles. A comparative between two countries identifies similarities, differences, potential transferability models. Based on insights, recommendations proposed emphasizing importance context-specific accelerate Overall, this provides comprehensive exploration offering valuable policymakers, stakeholders, practitioners

Язык: Английский

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