Bank Management and Financial Services is designed to help students master established management principles and to confront the perplexing issues of risk, regulation, technology and competition that bankers and other financial service managers see as their greatest challenges for the present and future. This new edition offers the student many of the key trends and changes in the financial-services sector. With this relevant information students are able to grasp the rapid changes that are happening in this course area and in the real world. Book Features: New coverage on the efforts of U and foreign governments to “bail out” the financial institutions sector A look at the strengths and weaknesses of the securitization process and an examination of the use of interest-rate and currency hedging instruments A look at the mortgage market crisis and its impact on financial-market conditions and the economy An exploration of the rise of China, India, Korea, Japan and other leading nations inside the global financial system New and recently updated problems