Estimation of profitability and risks of investing in European real estate
ID number: J201835
Abstract: This article presents an analysis of risks and returns on investment in European real estate. The analysis is based on statistics for the last 10 years. The results of the study can be used as recommendations to investors who are going to invest in European real estate.
Key-words: investments, real estate, profitability, investment risk, European real estate, European real estate market
Application of biometric-based identification technologies in banking systems
ID number: J201836
Abstract: In the modern context of growing competition in the banking industry, innovation technologies are becoming a strategic priority for banking institutions. The article provides the analysis of the implementation of biometrics in banking entities in terms of the improvement of the level of information security. Positive, negative aspects of biometric technologies and the effect of using biometric identification on the level of clients’ interest in the banking products are examined.
Key-words: information security, banking technologies, authentication of banking clients, biometrics
Analysis of transnational corporations development
ID number: J201837
Abstract: A rapidly moving process of transnationalization characterizes the modern world economy. In this process, the main driving force is transnational corporations. At the turn of XX-XXI centuries, there was an unprecedented scope of foreign economic activity, in which TNCs were traders, investors, distributors of modern technologies and stimulators of international labor migration. They largely determine the dynamics and structure, the level of competitiveness in the world market of goods and services, as well as the international movement of capital and the transfer of technologies. This article analyzes the prospective of TNCs’ development in the near future.