TY - BOOK AU - Casu, Barbara AU - Girardone, Claudia AU - Molyneux, Philip TI - Introduction to banking. SN - 9780273693024 0273693026 AV - HG1606.C26 PY - 2006/// CY - London : PB - Prentice Hall Financial Times, KW - Banks and banking KW - Great Britain. N1 - Contents: Introduction to banking: What is special about banks -- Banking activities and current issues in banking -- Types of banking -- International banking -- Central banking and bank regulation: Theory of central banking -- Central banks in practice -- Bank regulation and supervision -- Issues in bank management: Banks' balance sheet and income structure -- Managing banks -- Banking risks -- Banking risks management -- UK banking -- European banking -- Banking in the new EU member states -- Banking in the united states -- Banking in Japan -- Banking in emerging and transition economies -- Appendix A1: Interest rates, bonds and yields -- Appendix A2: Introduction to portfolio theory ER -