"This updated edition is a comprehensive resource providing you with tools to demystify the complexities of banking law. The book guides you through today’s system of financial regulation. Sharing decades of accumulated legal learning, the author and contributors discuss their experience and knowledge as banking law professionals and educators providing tips on how to navigate the subject. 'The Keys to Banking Law' guides you through today’s system of financial regulation that is unlike anything else in the world. To that end, the guide: explores the history of banking law in the U.S. to provide context for the complexities of the law examines the bank family, with special emphasis on the unique dual banking system and holding company structure discusses the ?safety net? of FDIC insurance and the Federal Reserve discount window dedicates chapters to all of the myriad laws and regulations attributed to the ?specialness? of the banking charter unveils issues associated with safety and soundness and risk management examines how banks are supervised and examined, how law is enforced and what happens when a bank fails."--Provided by publisher.

Lowy avoids the easy answers, like blaming it on fraud and greed, and explains how something of this magnitude could occur under the noses of those who should have protected the taxpayer. Paul M. Horvitz, University of Houston Market forces, not scoundrels, destroyed the savings and loan business. So says Martin Lowy in what is truly an inside look at the savings and loan crisis. Drawing upon his experience as a practicing attorney, bank officer, and savings and loan director, Lowy provides an expert account of the problems that have overwhelmed the nation's savings institutions and their government regulators. High Rollers is the first book on the S&L crisis that provides an analytical groundwork for technical and nontechnical readers--so that both can comprehend what happened. Lowy's clear, readable style allows him to quickly describe the origins of the problems in new market forces and new technologies, and how the problems grew out of control as a result of regulatory mistakes and congressional inaction. Even his discussions of real estate lending practices and accounting issues are, in the words of Professor Horvitz, both clear to the novice and instructive to the professional.

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