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About the Finance and Capital Markets Series

The Finance and Capital Markets series is designed to bring you high-quality, cutting-edge information on the latest issues and developments in the financial world. These authoritative yet accessible books, written by experts in their field, provide clear, practical guidance not only for industry professionals, but also serve as a framework of current analysis for scholars and form a comprehensive reference resource for libraries.

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About the Series editors

Series Editors: Adrian R. Bell, John Board, Charles Sutcliffe, Charles Ward

The Series Editors are at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK, whose mission is to teach and research in the area of capital markets to the highest international standard.

For more information about the ICMA Centre please click here.

Recent Publications

Consolidation in the European Financial Industry
Roberto Bottiglia; Elisabetta Gualandri; Gian Nereo Mazzocco


This book examines the consolidation process that has taken place within the financial system of the European Union. With the aid of case studies on operations carried out in the last decade, it looks for pointers to the best future role of corporate governance of intermediaries and financial regulation and supervision.

March 2010 Hardback £65.00

The Swedish Financial Revolution
Anders Ögren


How could Sweden go from a financially backward country to one with a well-functioning financial system? Why did this financial revolution occur after the mid-nineteenth century and not before? What did this financial revolution mean for the economic development, market integration and financial crises? These are some of the issues explored in this book.

February 2010 Hardback £65.00

Cooperative Banking in Europe: Case Studies
Vittorio Boscia, Alessandro Carretta, Paola Schwizer


This book investigates the evolution of cooperative banking in European countries in order to assess whether it is possible to treat Europe as a unique system and to identify 'best' models around Europe.

December 2009 Hardback £60.00

Mergers and Acquisitions in European Banking
Franco Fiordelisi


This detailed analytical analysis advances prior literature by proposing an independent assessment of the effect produced by M&A transactions on bank efficiency and shareholder value.

November 2009 Hardback £65.00

Globalization and the Reform of the International Banking and Monetary System
Otto Hieronymi


This book offers an analysis of the origins, nature and consequences of the current systemic crisis and proposals for the reform of the international monetary and banking system.

November 2009 Hardback £65.00

RISK AND FINANCIAL CATASTROPHE
ERIK BANKS


The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant "lessons learned", this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.

September 2009 Hardback £130.00

STRATEGY, VALUE AND RISK
JAMIE ROGERS

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task. Real Options offer the link to value and the strategic opportunities that lie in an increasingly dynamic landscape

September 2009 Hardback £130.00

INVESTMENT WITHHOLDING TAX
ROSS MCGILL


This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance. It gives practical guidance to financial service firms and investors to help them understand the issues involved, trends and practicalities of maximizing returns on investment.

August 2009 Hardback £130.00

DERIVATIVES AND INTERNAL MODELS
HANS-PETER DEUTSCH

This book provides a thorough introduction to pricing and risk management of modern financial instruments formulated in precise mathematical language, covering all relevant topics with such a depth of detail that readers are enabled to literally develop their own pricing and risk tools. Accompanying website with hundreds of real world examples

May 2009 Hardback £130.00

QUANTIFICATION OF OPERATIONAL RISK UNDER BASEL II:
The Good, Bad and Ugly
IMAD A. MOOSA

The book presents arguments that are critical of the Basel II Accord, particularly the advanced measurement approach to operational risk. It is argued that the advanced measurement approach is not viable in terms of costs and benefits and is likely to distract financial institutions from the real task of managing operational risk.

November 2008 Hardback £125.00

INVESTOR RELATIONS:
Principles and International Best Practices of Financial Communications
ANNE GUIMARD

This practical guide on the theory and practice of Investor Relations combines the art and science of marketing, financial analysis and financial communications in a single source. It offers expert advice and helpful tips to be used in real business life by corporate executives, financial analysts, students, and anyone competing for capital.

October 2008 Hardback £125.00

STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
COUNTRIES OF THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL
AHSAN MANSUR and FERNANDO DELGADO

The book analyzes the stock market developments in all GCC countries, focusing on the recent boom and bust episodes in five out of the seven GCC equity markets - one of the major events in emerging markets this decade. The lessons from this period will constitute a reference for emerging equity markets for decades to come.

October 2008 Hardback £125.00

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
ROSS McGILL

Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years. While there are many books covering purely technical issues, this is one of the very few that look at the challenge of how to manage financial services technology in an area that under-pins almost every part of our global civilisation.

July 2008 Hardback £125.00

STANDBY LETTERS OF CREDIT:
A Comprehensive Guide
JACOB E. SIFRI

A guide that tackles this vital financial instrument from a practical as well as legal perspective. Augmented with numerous real life cases, the book addresses the exact procedures undertaken by global banks in handling standby letters of credit transactions whilst providing an article by article interpretation of the ISP98.

May 2008 Hardback £125.00

Forthcoming Publications

Dark Pools
The Structure and Future of Off-Exchange Trading and Liquidity
ERIK BANKS

Dark Pools is a practical text dealing with the increasingly important topic of dark pools, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading and liquidity. A growing amount of institutional trading occurs away from exchanges and expansion in this little understood sector of the market is set to continue. The book is organized in three parts: Market Structure, Micro Issues, and Environment of the Future.

April 2010 Hardback £130.00

Financial Instability
Vincenzo D'Apice; Giovanni Ferri

Why have financial crises been increasingly frequent and severe in the last thirty years? How can financial crises be prevented? What role do governments and international institutions play in their prevention? How does the latest crisis fit in the long-term political economy cycle of finance? This book aims to answer these questions.

July 2010 Hardback £65.00

Also available in the series:

OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Imad A. Moosa
July 2007 Hardback 9780230506442 £130.00

CHINESE ENERGY MARKETS: Trading and Risk Management of Commodities and Renewables
Armelle Guizot
October 2007 Hardback 9780230554207 £130.00

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: Current Issues
Greg N. Gregoriou and Karyn Neuhauser
November 2007 Hardback 9780230553798 £130.00

GLOBAL CUSTODY AND CLEARING SERVICES
Ross McGill and Naren Patel
December 2007 Hardback 9780230007000 £130.00

HEDGE FUND TECHNOLOGY
Armelle Guizot
November 2007 Hardback 9780230554191 £130.00

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT FOR ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE
Ioannis Akkizidis and Sunil Kumar Khandelwal
December 2007 Hardback 9780230553811 £130.00

INTERNATIONAL TRADE FINANCE: A Pragmatic Approach
Tarsem Singh Bhogal and Arun Kumar Trivedi
December 2007 Hardback 9780230553781 £130.00

To set up a standing order which will ensure you receive all future books in the series immediately upon publication, please order from your usual supplier or direct from Palgrave Macmillan quoting ISBN 978-0-333-96273-2.

If you would like to write a book for the series or have suggestions for further titles please contact the Senior Commissioning Editor for Finance, Lisa von Fircks