fail, the whole economy fails. How to Build a Bank sets out, in a manner that is completely unprecedented, all the … requirements for the core documentation essential for the operation of a bank. The book takes the reader through the core … requirements to operate a bank, and then provides actual examples of the relevant regulatory documentation required for the bank …

U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) have developed a very significant nonbank footprint over the years, adding thousands …

instead that NBFI and bank businesses and risks are so interwoven that they are better described as having transformed over … contingent liquidity risk from the provision of credit lines to NBFIs; and (iii) empirical work confirms bank-NBFI linkages …

, which is the risk that a new technology has negative spillovers on the value of a bank's legacy loan portfolio. Using both … overhang. These results hold for two distinct measures of asset overhang and using bank mergers as a source of exogenous … variation in bank specialization. We further show that these heterogeneous effects arise through financial contracting. Overall …