The Changing Geography of Banking and Finance The Main Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zazzaro, Alberto. (Editor), Fratianni, Michele. (Editor), Alessandrini, Pietro. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Economics.; Economic policy.; Finance.; Entrepreneurship.; Economics/Management Science.; Finance/Investment/Banking.; Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98078-2

Two contrasting trends have emerged from the intense integration and consolidation process that have swept the European and U.S. banking industry in the 1990s: the geographical diffusion of banking structures and instruments and the geographical concentration of banking power in a few financial cent...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The changing geography of banking: the main issues
• Innovation, organisations and small business lending
• Does distance matter in banking?- Distance, organisational structure and lending decisions
• Bank size or distance: What hampers innovation adoption by SMEs?- Distance and internet banking
• The evolving landscape of banking
• Bank market structure, competition, and stability: Issues and concepts
• Cross-border mergers and acquisitions: causes, consequences, and recent trends
• What borders are (likely) made of? An analysis of barriers to European banking integration
• Designing a regulatory framework for international banks and financial
• The evolutionary chain of international financial centres
• Financial centers between centralisation and virtualisation
• Index.