Updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis, highlighting areas of major policy and academic interest. The book includes ten chapters analysing contrasting issues such as intellectual capital, cost efficiency, bank stability, credit risk and business models for the wealth management industry.

The current economic crisis is causing large impact on the behaviour of financial markets and institutions. Crisis, Risk and Stability in Modern Banking presents an in-depth insight into key topics related to the behaviour of financial institutions in the crisis, stressing areas of major research interest. It covers a selection of papers from the past European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at the University of Valencia, Spain in September 2011. This book analyses different subjects ranging from the analysis of the behaviour of rating agencies, bank performance in the crisis, banking regulation and its impact on bank management, the implications of bank stability on economic growth, the impact of globalization on financial stability, and the importance of stock exchange mergers, as well as other diverse areas such as microinsurance and social lending.

Updated insight into key facts impacting on financial institutions after the financial crisis, highlighting areas of major policy and academic interest. The book includes ten chapters analysing contrasting issues such as intellectual capital, cost efficiency, bank stability, credit risk and business models for the wealth management industry.

This book presents an in-depth appreciation of key topics related to the behaviour of financial institutions in the crisis and stresses areas of major research interest. It covers a selection of papers specialising ranging from the analysis of bank and stock market performance in the crisis, to other areas such as microinsurance and social lending.