Contains legal and regulatory rules of the five main financial entities/markets: Hong Kong, China, The United States, European Union and United Kingdom• Laws of each region are illustrated and compared.• Provides information on how these markets interact with each other to co-exist in the...

Foreign bank lending has stopped growing since the global financial crisis. Changes in banks' business models, balance-sheet adjustments, as well as the tightening of banking regulations are potential drivers of this prolonged slowdown. The existing literature however suggests an opposite effect...

A Saturday Evening Post editorial of December 28, 1928, glowingly described American bankers as the “stewards of our whole intricate credit system.” Within a year the feelings of that esteemed journal's editors had changed considerably. Their emotional rollercoaster follows tracks similar to...