Overview
Handbook of Commercial Banking is the first book to comprehensively address strategic planning issues in the financial industry. Based on the author's extensive consultancy experience, the book develops a flexible plan to help banking professionals think through the strategic issues of this important financial sector. Beginning with a discussion on the need for a commercial banking strategy and the affects this has on the banks and their competition, the book moves on to outline various issues including; the role of marketing in commercial banking; relationship banking and the branch office network; private and direct banking; pricing financial products and services and credit and market risk. The author has also included a large range of case-studies which are geographically diverse and will provide the reader with a valuable breadth of reference.
Full Product Details
Author: D. Chorafas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.757kg
ISBN: 9780333736241
ISBN 10: 0333736249
Pages: 463
Publication Date: 28 October 1998
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'With a range of geographically diverse studies it contrives to raise all the main issues and challenges confronting commercial banking today. Mr Chorafas is an international management consultant with an impressive pedigree. This wide-ranging work will be helpful to managers at all levels and, as Barclays Brandon Davies writes in his foreword, the author's great merit is that he does not just convey facts, he makes you think.' - CIB News
'With a range of geographically diverse studies it contrives to raise all the main issues and challenges confronting commercial banking today. Mr Chorafas is an international management consultant with an impressive pedigree. This wide-ranging work will be helpful to managers at all levels and, as Barclays Brandon Davies writes in his foreword, the author's great merit is that he does not just convey facts, he makes you think.' - CIB News
Author Information
Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.
