Since 1990, major banking and current crises have occurred in many countries throughout the world - including Mexico and Latin America in 1994-95, East Asia in 1997-98, and Russia and Brazil in 1998 - with large costs both to the individual countries experiencing the crises and to other nations....

1 Bank Structure in Canada -- 2 Bank Structure in Chile -- 3 Banking Structure of China -- 4 Banking in the European Economic Community: Structure, Competition, and Public Policy -- 5 The French Financial System -- 6 The Structure of the Italian Financial System -- 7 The Evolution of Japanese...

Equal treatment in access to credit has long been a fundamental social goal in the United States. However, despite the passage of several laws in the U.S. prohibiting discrimination in the provision of financial services on the basis of race, gender, and marital status, among other factors,...