An account of the principal phases in the development of the English banking system, and an analysis of the financial structure of the economy of the UK. The book focuses in detail on the regulatory and supervisory aspects of the UK banking system, and the interactions between the structural...

This article highlights the burgeoning significance of Islamic Banking system worldwide which has believed to reach a global investment of $ 1 trillion. Iran, Sudan and Pakistan have Islamic Banks exclusively, whereas, the eastern countries like Malaysia and western markets in United Kingdom,...

"We offer and test two competing hypotheses for the consolidation trend in banking using U.S. banking industry data over the period 1982-2000. Under the efficiency hypothesis, technological progress improved the performance of large, multimarket firms relative to small, single-market firms,...