Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis: Understanding Failure and Mergers During the Great Recession

by D. Chorafas

Overview

Banks, Bankers, and Bankruptcies Under Crisis uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in some cases banks obliged to merge under government pressure, to better understand global banking today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349493685
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/17/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

Table of Contents

1. Banks Too Big to Fail 2. Banks and Regulators 3. Banking Practices and the Evolution of Trading Rules 4. Euroland's Banking Union and Its Stress Tests 5. Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns 6. American International Group 7. Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Loan Mortgage Corporation 8. Citigroup 9. British Banks at the Edge 10. Euroland's Banks 11. The Challenges Japan Faced With Its Banking Industry 12. Japanese Banks Which Bled in the River of Red Ink