Bank Strategies and Challenges in the New Europe

Both in global and European banking markets, banks and banking are undergoing fundamental changes. Deregulation, competition, technology and other developments have extended the frontiers of banking into the wider and ever-expanding financial services industry. Bank Strategies and Challenges in the New Europe brings together the work of leading European researchers in banking and finance in a blend of theory, practice and empirical study. The contributors situate banking within this new environment by exploring key issues such as the impact of technological advances, changes in delivery and payment systems, EMU and the convergence of EU banking sectors, competition, regional investment, offshore banking, capital adequacy and risk management.
About the Author: YENER ALTUNBAS Research Fellow, South Bank University, London GÖRAN BERGENDAHL Professor of Business Administration, Gothenburg University PHILIP BOURKE Irish Banks' Professor, Banking and Finance, University College, Dublin SANTIAGO CARBO Professor Titular, Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada MARCEL R. CREEMERS Information Systems Management Professor, Vrije University, Amsterdam JOE FALZON Head of the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Malta ESTEBAN FERNÁNDEZ Professor of Business Administration, Oviedo University RAY KINSELLA Professor of Banking and Financial Services, University of Ulster PIETER KLAASSEN Vice President, Credit Risk Modeling, ABN-AMRO Bank, N.V. Amsterdam TED LINDBLOM Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies in Business Administration, University of Gothenburg ANDRÉ LUCAS Research Fellow, Department of Finance, Vrije University, Amsterdam PHILIP MOLYNEUX Professor, Banking and Finance and Director, Institute of European Finance, University of Wales, Bangor ELISABETTA MONTANARO Professor of Banking, University of Siena JOSE M. MONTÉS Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Oviedo University FRANCISCO PÉREZ Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Valencia JACK REVELL Professor Emeritus, University of Wales CLAUDIO SCALA Professor of Statistics, University of Siena RAY SHAW Director of Management Consultancy Company MARIO TONVERONACHI Professor of Monetary Economics, University of Siena EMILI TORTOSA-AUSINA Teaching Assistant in Economics CAMILO J. VÁZQUES Professor of Business Administration, Oviedo University JONATHAN WILLIAMS Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of Wales, Bangor