The Financial Times guide to banking / Glen Arnold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnold, Glen, author.

Series:

Financial times guides.

Financial Times Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banks and banking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Guide to banking

Place of Publication:

Harlow, England : Pearson Education Limited, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-415) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780273791829

0273791826

9780273791836

0273791834

OCLC:

1015871004