Preface -- Mobile banking adoption : future channel usage, services and platforms / Jennifer Mullan, Laura Bradley, PhD, and Sharon Loane, PhD, Department of Global Business and Enterprise, Ulster, University, Londonderry, Northern Ireland -- Islamic banking plus social banking equals Islamic social banking : an equation in the making / M. Luthfi Hamidi and Andrew C. Worthington, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, and others -- Attitudes of libyan banks towards islamic methods of finance / Alsadek H. Gait and Andrew C. Worthington, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia -- Marketing of bank services : a case study of Slovak banks / Adriana Csikosova, Maria Janoskova, and Katarina Culkova, Faculty BERG, Technical University of Koice, Koice, Slovakia -- Press release : a tool for public relations / Mayyer Ling, English Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei -- Credit, liquidity and operational risk management in Islamic banking / Mahfod Aldoseri and Andrew C. Worthington, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia -- Cooperative versus commercial banking strategies in Europe after the subprime crisis : does governance influence resilience to shocks? / Elisabeth Paulet, PhD, Dr. Miia Parnaudeau, and Dr. Tamym Abdessemed, PhD, ICN Business School, Nancy, France, Essca School of Management, Angers, France, and ISC Business School, Paris France -- Banking and risk assessment / Nicholas Simon Gonchar, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of NAS, Kiev, Ukraine -- Index