Reforming the trading and financial systems / Antonio Segura Serrano -- Global economic governance and banking regulation : redesigning regulation to promote stakeholder interests / Kern Alexander -- Do we need a world financial organization? / Rosa Maria Lastra -- Critical reflections on bank...

Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial...

A timely guide to the complex financial markets and banking secrecy of SwitzerlandSince 1934, when Switzerland's federal bank secrecy law was passed, the line between myth and reality with regard to Swiss banking has been blurred. But over the past decade, there have been dramatic changes in the...

In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. Banks like Countrywide and non-banks such as New Century Financial--all financed by Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and others--were in danger of closing, or actually...