The "Handbook of International Banking" aims to provide a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the...
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The "Handbook of International Banking" aims to provide a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Cover; Contents; Figures; Exhibits; Contributors; Preface; PART I The Globalization of Banking; 1. Globalization and convergence of banking systems; 2. Multinational banking: historical, empirical and case perspectives; 3. Asset-backed securitization, collateralized loan obligations and credit derivatives; PART II Banking Structures and Functions; 4. The new world of euro banking; 5. Competitive banking in the EU and Euroland; 6. How to tie your hands: a currency board versus an independent central bank; 7. Free banking; 8. Islamic banking
9. Universal banking and shareholder value: a contradiction?*10. Foreign exchange trading activities of international banks; 11. The settlement and financing of international trade; 12. Costs and efficiency in banking: a survey of the evidence from the US, the UK and Japan; PART III Banking Risks, Crises and Regulation; 13. Country risk: existing models and new horizons; 14. The causes of bank failures; 15. International banking crises; 16. Some lessons for bank regulation from recent financial crises
17. Reforming the traditional structure of a central bank to cope with the Asian financial crisis: lessons from Bank of Thai18. Capital flight: the key issues; 19. International banks and the washing of dirty money: the economics of money laundering; 20. The regulation of international banking: structural issues; 21. US banking regulation: practice and trends; 22. Deposit insurance and international banking regulation; PART IV The Evolving International Financial Architecture; 23. The institutional design of central banks; 24. The International Monetary Fund: past, present and future
25. Reforming the privatized international monetary and financial architecture26. Globalization, the WTO and GATS: implications for the banking sector in developing countries; Index
