Book description
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
- Title page
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- Author’s acknowledgements
- Publisher’s acknowledgements
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part 1 Different types of banking
- 1 What is banking?
- 2 An overview of different aspects of banking
- 3 Retail banking
- 4 Transferring money and other retail bank services
- 5 Corporate banking: lending
- 6 Corporate banking: key activities
- 7 How a bank operates
- 8 Asset and liability management
- 9 Bank financial statements
- 10 Investment banking: services to companies and governments
- 11 Investment banking: market trading activities
- 12 The mutuals
- 13 Finance houses
- part 2 International banking
- part 3 Instruments and markets
- part 4 Central banking and regulation
- Notes to chapters
- Index
Product information
- Title: FT Guide to Banking
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): FT Publishing International
- ISBN: 9780273791843
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