The Financial Times guide to banking

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 con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Arnold, Glen, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harlow, England : Pearson Education Limited [2014]
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Financial times guides.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.