FT Guide to Banking (The FT Guides)

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The Financial Times Guide to Banking is a comprehensive introduction to how banks and banking works. Best-selling author Glen Arnold provides you with a foundation for understanding the wide variety of activities undertaken by banks. He shows you why these global institutions are so important to consumers and finance professionals alike and explains how their activities impact on everyday life.   The Financial Times Guide to Banking will give you:   -    A thorough understanding of all types of banking from retail through to asset management and investment banking.   -    An overview of global banking including the worldwide evolution of the sector, the influence of cross-border money flows and the importance of modern banking to international development   -    Expert knowledge about instruments and markets including debt markets, futures markets and swaps and options   -    Insight into the crucial importance of central banking and government regulation   -   Answers to the big questions about monetary policy and interest rates, payment systems and banking success Cover Contents About the author Preface Author's acknowledgements Publisher's acknowledgements Part 1: Different types of banking What is banking? An overview of different aspects of banking Retail banking Transferring money and other retail bank services Corporate banking: lending Corporate banking: key activities How a bank operates Asset and liability management Bank financial statements Investment banking: services to companies and governments Investment banking: market trading activities The mutuals Finance houses Part 2: International banking Banking across borders UK banking European banking Banking in the Americas Banking in Asia and Australasia Banking in the Middle East and Africa Part 3: Instruments and markets Debt markets Future markets Swaps and options Foreign exchange markets Part 4: Central banking and regualtion Monetary policy Central banking: other functions Regulation Notes to chapters Index