The dynamic banking and financial services sector in the country requires prudent decision making skills. Management of Banking and Financial Services provides students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of managerial issues in the banking and financial services industry, enabling them to evaluate the overall organisational impact of their decisions. In this third edition, all the chapters have been rigorously updated to include contemporary topics and applications from 2013. A new chapter, 'Financial Services Classified', has been added to address contemporary issues from the industry. The introductory chapter deals with the future of the banking industry in the context of the global financial and economic crisis, while the other chapters include advanced topics like 'credit risk management' that discuss various models of credit risk measurement and management.

The dynamic banking and financial services environment in the country calls for prudent decision making under pressure. Management of Banking and Financial Services provides students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of managerial issues in the banking and financial services industry, enabling them to evaluate the overall organisational impact of their decisions. The first section of the book focuses on the basic concepts of banking and financial services, and the other sections explain how these concepts are applied in the global banking environment as well as in India. In addition to presenting the big picture of the banking and financial services industry, the book also provides useful tips on the trade-off between risk and return.

Financial services refer to the economic services delivered by the finance industry across multiple businesses and organizations like banks, insurance companies, stock brokerages, etc. In banks, besides the primary functionalities of storing, lending and borrowing money, financial services also include making investments across many industries and companies, capital generation, insurance facilitation and fund transfer. This book presents the key concepts and theories essential to the field of bank management and financial services. Constant effort has been made to make the understanding of the difficult concepts as easy and informative as possible. Banking professionals, financial advisors, experts and students alike will be benefited by an in-depth study of this book.

'Bank Management & 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.

The banking industry affects the welfare of every other industry and the economy. Banks are the leaders of the financial-services industry as a whole, however, financial-service competitors are now challenging them more than ever before. 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 future.

• For engineers to have broad knowledge of finance to take their engineering decisions more effectively