This volume of essays comprises a systematic collection of views from scholars and practitioners on the future of financial systems and services and reflects the fact that the financial industry worldwide is involved in a major restructuring process.

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. This has emerged as a major international policy issue...read more

Product Description: The completion of the European Single Market Programme (SMP) and the launch of 'Euroland' are bold statements on the European Union 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: Both in global and European banking markets, banks and banking are undergoing fundamental changes. Deregulation, competition, technology and other developments have extended the frontiers of banking into the wider and ever-expanding financial services industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The fourteen essays in this volume are by leading European researchers who explore the issues involved in European banking, now changing at an unprecedented rate. Competition and efficiency are now dominant banking concerns, and they are covered here along with various aspects of the strategies of EU banks and the impact of EMU...read more (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