The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture.

Contents: Preface PART I: THE GLOBALIZATION OF BANKING 1. Globalization and Convergence of Banking Systems Andrew W. Mullineux and Victor Murinde 2. Multinational Banking: Historical, Empirical and Case Perspectives Elisa A. Curry, Justin G. Fung and Ian R. Harper 3. Asset-backed Securitization, Collateralized Loan Obligations and Credit Derivatives Warrick Ward and Simon Wolfe PART II: BANKING STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS 4. The New World of Euro Banking Jean Dermine 5. Competitive Banking in the EU and Euroland Edward P.M. Gardener, Philip Molyneux and Jonathan Williams 6. How to Tie Your Hands: A Currency Board versus an Independent Central Bank Jakob de Haan and Helge Berger 7. Free Banking Kevin Dowd 8. Islamic Banking Humayon A. Dar and John R. Presley 9. Universal Banking and Shareholder Value: A Contradiction? Ingo Walter 10. Foreign Exchange Trading Activities of International Banks Jürgen Eichberger and Joachim Keller 11. The Settlement and Financing of International Trade Ayse G. Eren 12. Costs and Efficiency in Banking: A Survey of the Evidence from the US, the UK and Japan Leigh Drake PART III: BANKING RISKS, CRISES AND REGULATION 13. Country Risk: Existing Models and New Horizons Sarkis Joseph Khoury and Chunsheng Zhou 14. The Causes of Bank Failures Shelagh Heffernan 15. International Banking Crises Alistair Milne and Geoffrey E. Wood 16. Some Lessons for Bank Regulation from Recent Financial Crises David T. Llewellyn 17. Reforming the Traditional Structure of a Central Bank to Cope with the Asian Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Bank of Thailand Andrew W. Mullineux, Victor Murinde and Adisorn Pinijkulviwat 18. Capital Flight: The Key Issues Niels Hermes, Robert Lensink and Victor Murinde 19. International Banks and the Washing of Dirty Money: The Economics of Money Laundering Kent Matthews 20. The Regulation of International Banking: Structural Issues Richard Dale and Simon Wolfe 21. US Banking Regulation: Practice and Trends Joseph J. Norton and Christopher D. Olive 22. Deposit Insurance and International Banking Regulation C. Charles Okeahalam PART IV: THE EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE 23. The institutional Design of Central Banks Falko Fecht and Gerhard Illing 24. The International Monetary Fund: Past, Present and Future Ian W. Marsh and Kate Phylaktis 25. Reforming the Privatized International Monetary and Financial Architecture Jane D’Arista 26. Globalization, the WTO and GATS: Implications for the Banking Sector in Developing Countries Victor Murinde and Cillian Ryan Index