Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Abbreviated Contents -- Extended Contents -- Preface -- Pedagogy -- Organization -- Supplementary Materials -- Instructor's Manual/Test Bank/Transparency Master -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Some more on the organization of...

Basic concepts -- The nature and variety of financial intermediation -- The what, how, and why of financial intermediaries -- Major risks faced by banks -- Sport lending -- Further issues in bank lending -- Special topics in credit: syndicated loans, loan sales, and project finance --...

This paper reviews the literature on how the evolution of banks and markets is blurring the distinction between them, and the implications of this for post-crisis regulation of banks and markets. Unanswered research questions are identified