FT Guide to Banking (The FT Guides)

✍ Scribed by Glen Arnold

Publisher: FT Publishing International
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 441
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The Financial Times Guide to Banking is a comprehensive introduction to how banks and banking works. Best-selling author Glen Arnold provides you with a foundation for understanding the wide variety of activities undertaken by banks. He shows you why these global institutions are so important to consumers and finance professionals alike and explains how their activities impact on everyday life.

The Financial Times Guide to Banking will give you:

- A thorough understanding of all types of banking from retail through to asset management and investment banking.

- An overview of global banking including the worldwide evolution of the sector, the influence of cross-border money flows and the importance of modern banking to international development

- Expert knowledge about instruments and markets including debt markets, futures markets and swaps and options

- Insight into the crucial importance of central banking and government regulation

- Answers to the big questions about monetary policy and interest rates, payment systems and banking success

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
About the author
Preface
Author's acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
Part 1: Different types of banking
What is banking?
An overview of different aspects of banking
Retail banking
Transferring money and other retail bank services
Corporate banking: lending
Corporate banking: key activities
How a bank operates
Asset and liability management
Bank financial statements
Investment banking: services to companies and governments
Investment banking: market trading activities
The mutuals
Finance houses
Part 2: International banking
Banking across borders
UK banking
European banking
Banking in the Americas
Banking in Asia and Australasia
Banking in the Middle East and Africa
Part 3: Instruments and markets
Debt markets
Future markets
Swaps and options
Foreign exchange markets
Part 4: Central banking and regualtion
Monetary policy
Central banking: other functions
Regulation
Notes to chapters
Index

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