<i>The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933</i>, by Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., details the evolution of modern deposit insurance from collective responsibility for debt enforced under the Canton System

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Deposit Insurance Design and Implementation: Policy Lessons from Research and Practice -- II Deposit Insurance: Adoption, Pricing, and Linkages with Insolvency Resolution -- 2 Adoption and Design of Deposit...

Intro -- INSOLVENCY ISSUES AND THE FDIC -- INSOLVENCY ISSUES AND THE FDIC -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 A YEAR IN BANK SUPERVISION: 2008 AND A FEW OF ITS LESSONS -- BANK SUPERVISION -- The Prelude to the Events of 2008 -- A Selective 2008 Chronology -- The First Quarter -- 2008: THE YEAR...

The authors present a comprehensive and timely discussion of economic capital and financial risk management for financial services firms and conglomerates. Topics covered include: the different types of risks that firms collect; risk governance issues; how stress testing can be used to measure...