Locational Trends and Patterns of Retail Banking on Urban Crime: The Ikeja Scenario

Abstract

The last ten years have witnessed a growth of many major retail commercial banking and specialized investment institutions In Nigeria leading to clustering of banking space and change in urban dynamics. The process of change has thrown up a host of new challenges in front of the private as well as public sector banks such as increasing pressures on profitability, asset-liability management, liquidity risk management, market risk management, without embarking on aggressive security measures to stem urban vices and crime. Therefore, crime analysis using GIS is today relevant in Nigeria, as the rates of crime and urban vices become unprecedented. Since crimes have situational relevance, also have spatio temporal attributes attached to it, GIS can be very a very useful tool to display and apply spatial analysis to data. This seminar paper therefore focuses on the Locational Trends and Patterns of Retail banking on Urban Crime.