Acknowledgements.

Prologue.

PART I: FINANCIAL SYSTEMS.

1. Securities Markets and Financial Intermediation.

2. Introduction to Securities Valuations.

3. Central Banks and the Creation of Money.

PART II: THE SPREAD BUSINESS.

4. Deposit Taking and Other Funding.

5. Corporate Lending.

6. Operational Services.

7. Mortgage Lending.

8. Credit Cards and Other Retail Loans.

Part III: RISK MANAGEMENT.

9. The Controls Cycle.

10. Managing Interest Rate and FX Risk.

11. Trading.

12. Managing Market Risk.

13. Managing Credit Risk.

14. Capital Management.

Part IV: CAPITAL MARKETS.

15. Fund Management.

16. Investment Banking.

17. Securitization.

PART V: BANK VALUATIONS AND ACQUISITIONS.

18. Bank Valuations.

19. Bank Acquisitions.

PART VI: PROBLEM LOANS AND BANKING CRISES.

20. Corporate Failures and Problem Loans.

21. Banking Crises.

22. Dealing with & Valuing Insolvent Banks.

PART VII: SUPERVISION & FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

23. Regulation, Supervision and Policing.

24. The Balance Sheet.

25. The Income Statement.

PRIMERS.

Statistics for Finance.

Derivation of Duration and Convexity.

Financial Institutions.

Appendix I: The Basel Accord.

Appendix II: Glossary of Terms.

Sources and Further Reading.

Index.