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Chapter 1: Demystifying China’s Stock Market: The Hidden Logic behind the Puzzles -- Chapter 2: What Does History Tell Us? The Roots of China’s Modern Stock Market -- Chapter 3: A Government-Dominated Financial System -- Chapter 4: A Chinese style speculative market -- Chapter 5: The...

1. The Euro Area Banking System: Where Do We Stand? -- 2. The Main Challenges Facing the Euro Area Banking System -- 3. Non-performing Loans in the Euro Area -- 4. Level 3 Assets and Sovereign Exposure -- 5. Progress on the First Two Pillars of the Banking Union -- 6. The Third Pillar of the...

Chapter 1 Financial Impact of Mega Disasters – Introduction -- Chapter 2 Japan’s Disaster Risk Financing – Framework and Policies -- Chapter 3 Analysis of the Possible Impact of a Tokyo Mega Earthquake on Japanese Public Finance -- Chapter 4 Law and Policy Responses to Disaster-induced...

Chapter 1: Overview of the US Banking System -- Part 1: The Legal Background -- Chapter 2: Banking Laws -- Chapter 3: The Crypto-currency regulations -- Chapter 4: Anti-Money Laundering Laws -- Part 2: Actors: Regulators and Banks -- Chapter 5: The Regulators -- Chapter 6: Commercial Banks and...

1. Introduction -- 2. General Observations -- 3. FinTech and Market-based Financing -- 4. European Approaches to FinTech: The Role of Regulation and the Evolution of Supervision -- 5. FinTech, Chain Transactions and Open Banking -- 6. FinTech Firms -- 7. FinTech and Money -- 8. FinTech, RegTech...

This book provides unique information to prepare graduates and newly hired corporate and investment banking professionals for a career in the global markets environment of large universal and international investment banks. It shows the interrelationship between the three specific business...