Daripa, Arupratan; Varotto, Simone - Birkbeck College <London> / Department of Economics; … - 1998
Traditionally, regulation of banks has focused on the riskentailed in bank loans. Loans are typically nontradedassets …. In recent years, another component of bank assetshas become increasingly important: assets actively tradedin the … financial markets.1 These assets form the “tradingbook” of a bank, in contrast to the “banking book,” whichincludes the …
