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...

This book explores consumer protection in the major financial markets in the world and provides an international comparison among the countries of different cultural background and economic development. Each chapter describes the major issues of financial consumption in the selected country and...

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. Introducing Economic Capital -- Part 1. Modelling Credit-Risk Economic Capital -- Chapter 2. Constructing a Practical Model -- Chapter 3. Finding Model Parameters -- Chapter 4. Implementing The Model -- Part 2. Loan Pricing -- Chapter 5. Approximating Economic Capital -- Chapter 6....

CHAPTER 1 - Primary financial statements -- CHAPTER 2 - Notes to financial statements -- CHAPTER 3 - Financial statement analysis -- CHAPTER 4 – Prospective financial statement analysis and simulations -- CHAPTER 5 – Real-life case study: A flight to a bankruptcy of Norwegian Air Shuttle.

This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

Part I. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Crdit Rating -- Chapter 1. Credit Analysis and Credit Management -- Chapter 2. Financial Statement Analysis -- Chapter 3. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Credit Risk Rating -- Chapter 4. The Building Blocks of...

This book focuses on the alternative techniques and data leveraged for credit risk, describing and analysing the array of methodological approaches for the usage of techniques and/or alternative data for regulatory and managerial rating models. During the last decade the increase in...

This book explores the way in which banks were regulated in the UK in the period from 1946 until 1971. It focuses upon a group of 11 banks known as the London clearing banks. These banks included the ‘Big Five’ - Barclays, Lloyds, Midland, National Provincial and Westminster - and were the...