Modern Banking or Gender Development and Globalization

Modern Banking

Author: Shelagh Heffernan

Modern Banking focuses on the theory and practice of banking, and its prospects in the new millennium. The book is written for courses in banking and finance at Masters/MBA level, or undergraduate degrees specialising in this area. Bank practitioners wishing to deepen and broaden their understanding of banking issues may also be attracted to this book. While they often have exceptional and detailed knowledge of the areas they have worked in, busy bankers may be all too unaware of the key broader issues. Consider the fundamental questions: What is unique about a bank? and What differentiates it from other financial institutions? Answering these questions begins to show how banks should evolve and adapt - or fail. If bankers know the underlying reasons for why profitable banks exist, it will help them to devise strategies for sustained growth.

Modern Banking concludes with a set of case studies that give practical insight into the key issues covered in the book:

• The core banking functions

• Different types of banks and diversification of bank activities

• Risk management: issues and techniques

• Global regulation: Basel 1 and Basel 2.

• Bank regulation in the UK, US, EU, and Japan

• Banking in emerging markets

• Bank failure and financial crises

• Competitive issues, from cost efficiency to mergers and acquisitions

• Case Studies including: Goldman Sachs, Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui, Bancomer

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	What are banks and what do they do?	1
Ch. 2	Diversification of banking activities	41
Ch. 3	Management of risks in banking	101
Ch. 4	Global regulation of banks	173
Ch. 5	Bank structure and regulation : UK, USA, Japan, EU	221
Ch. 6	Banking in emerging economies	287
Ch. 7	Bank failures	351
Ch. 8	Financial crises	407
Ch. 9	Competitive issues in banking	473
Ch. 10	Case studies	541

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Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if People Mattered

Author: Lourdes Beneria

With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of every international organization. There is an underside (and a human side) to development, and feminism has made inroads into the highly technical debates and frothy prophecies by examining what the future really holds for the people who will live it. This book highlights the ways in which feminist analysis has contributed to a richer understanding of international development and globalization. By combining theoretical, empirical, and political perspectives and discusses cutting-edge debates around development, globalization, economic restructuring, and feminist economics, Gender, Development and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics.