Product Description: An Introduction to Global Financial Markets describes the financial world in clear, easy to understand terms. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of commercial and investment banking, foreign exchange, money and bond markets, stock markets and derivatives and an up to date analysis of the global financial crisis...read more

Product Description: This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state-of-the-art insights into research focusing on dimensions of bank strategy, governance and the role of credit rating agencies that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference, September 2010...read more

Product Description: This text comprises a selection of papers that provide state of the art insights into bank performance, risk and firm financing post crisis that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at Bangor University, Wales, 2010...read more

Product Description: This timely book is concerned with new financial solutions for the problem of housing stress, which has emerged as a major international challenge for advanced economies.

Product Description: The topic of this book is very broad, covering the main features and the many differences in co-operative banking models from various countries both within the EU and beyond. The authors examine the main trends, analyse the competitive conditions in which it works, discuss best practice, and explore what the future holds for co-operative banking...read more

Product Description: In today's globalized economy, banking is of high international importance. This book brings together topical issues in banking such as reform in China, electronic money and loan pricing, and highlights key policy and research in the field.

Product Description: Comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the business of banking, with European and wider international examples, written by expert authors.

Product Description: Creating sustainable shareholder value is one of the main strategic objectives for financial institutions. This text provides a detailed analytical assessment of shareholder value creation. The first part provides a framework for analysing shareholder value theory by discussing how shareholder value can be defined, if it can be considered a valid strategic objective for banks, and how it can be measured and created...read more

Product Description: * Bankers dealing with MNCs need a thorough understanding of their customers’ needs* Shows the banker how to relate their services to the specific needs of major customers* Banks are MNCs themselves so their strategies and needs evolve with their customersMultinational Corporations (MNCs) have special financial needs and problems with which the banker and the capital markets have to identify and work...read more

Product Description: This text is concerned with the increasingly important and problematic area of financial exclusion, broadly defined as the inability and/or reluctance of particular societal groups to access mainstream financial services. There is growing evidence that deregulation in developed financial sectors improves financial inclusion for some societal groups, but may at the same time exacerbate it for others...read more

Product Description: This text explains how Islamic banking works and what it offers as an alternative model of financial intermediation. Important questions addressed include: Why Islamic banking started and where it is going; who the main players are at present and whom it will attract in future; what its strengths and weaknesses are; whether Islamic banks will survive in highly competitive and globalized financial markets; what their prospects and potentials are; and how the relative performance and efficiency of Islamic banks compares to conventional banks...read more

Product Description: This book provides state-of-the art analysis of banking and financial systems in the Arab world. The early chapters present an overview of Arab economies linking banking and financial sector trends in the Arab world over the last twenty years...read more

Product Description: The completion of the European Single Market Programme (SMP) and the launch of "Euroland" are bold statements on the EU and its future. Within this economic process, the particular importance of the banking and financial services sectors is widely emphasized...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The retail banking sector has undergone immense change over the last decade, such that the industry is barely recognisable. The creation of the European Single Market has of necessity initiated deregulation, whilst the increase in telephone and internet banking has impacted on economies of scale...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Financial Innovation Philip Molyneux and Nidal Shamroukh Over the past twenty years there has been a massive increase in the development of new financial instruments, many of which have been off-balance-sheet activities. These instruments have become increasingly complex, placing higher demand on both the purchasers and the creators of such instruments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Banking markets have experienced a general trend towards conglomeration in recent years, which has been facilitated by the deregulation of banks' activities. A particular feature of financial conglomeration has been the diversification of banks into insurance (especially life) activities--a phenomenon known as bancassurance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book examines the rapid change in European banking, which is experiencing greater deregulation, allowing for stronger competition while establishing more restrictive regulation of supervision. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on changes in Western European banking from a functional perspective, "Changes in Western European Banking" aims to fill a conspicuous gap in the literature. Gardener and Molyneux provide a systematic study, concentrating on current trends and developments, and covering the whole of Western Europe, including Scandinavia and the Mediterranean countries...read more