Credit Risk Management and Analysis provides students with a highly practical and relevant guide to banking and financial analysis. This comprehensive text explores the credit offered by global banks today, including corporate loans, project finance, leasing, M&A and LBO financing, real estate, and other asset-based loan products. Part I introduces the world of credit, including the basic concepts of credit, the history and role of credit, and credit markets and their place within financial markets. Part II provides readers with a detailed introduction to a bank's credit analysis process from the time the customer approaches the bank to obtain a loan to the time the bank closes and funds the loan. It addresses loan underwriting, syndications, and other procedural considerations. Part III introduces readers to the plethora of credit products financial institutions can provide to their customers. In Part IV, students learn about the tools and techniques required to perform a financial credit analysis, as well as basic valuation techniques on private and publicly traded companies. In the final part, students gain access to valuable formulas, financial models, and case studies that bring the material to life. Credit Risk Management and Analysis is an ideal primary textbook for advanced courses and programs in finance and banking.

An Analytical Approach to Investments, Finance, and Credit provides a highly practical and relevant guide to graduating students beginning their careers in investment banking. The author applies his 30 plus years of experience in banking and 15 years of teaching as an adjunct finance professor to effectively combine the core principals of an academic textbook with the practical training that major investment banks provide to first-year analysts. Part I introduces the student to investment portfolio concepts including volatility risk, alpha, beta, Sharpe ratio, and efficient frontiers. Part II covers the primary markets where companies access the equity, bond, and loan markets. Part III explains these markets from the investor's point of view, covering the secondary trading markets of stocks, bonds, loans, and derivatives. Part IV comprises corporate finance fundamentals that many investment banks require for valuation, financial, and credit analysis for private and publicly traded companies. Part V provides students with step-by-step financial modeling for analyzing leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and other complex financial models. These models are accessible via the Cognella Active Learning platform. Throughout the text, the author provides multiple case studies that bridge the gap between academic concepts and practical application, which reinforces critical thinking.