Finance and Capital Markets
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Investors, issuers and arrangers are now active participants in the 'next generation' of derivatives as a means of managing risk, lowering funding costs, facilitating participation in the upside or downside of a market, or enhancing yield. Such participation is accomplished not only through now-standard derivative products such as interest rate/currency swaps and over-the-counter options, but by a host of new products and strategies. These 'next generation' derivatives have expanded to include equity derivative swaps, exotic options and complex swap structures. In addition , tailor-made packages of derivatives often include over-the-counter options combined in a variety of ways to produce very specific results. As participation in this field grows, there is an increasing need by financial institutions, regulators and 'end users' to understand the credit risks being assumed by participating in these new products and markets. Erik Banks explores the qualitative and quantitative aspects of these complex derivatives, develops a working framework for quantifying credit risk, and applies the logic and framework to assess the credit risks inherent in each of these new complex derivatives.
Market volatility and competition have each played a significant role in altering the state of banking over the last twenty years. During the 1980s and 1990s banks have been exposed to new types of risks with far different characteristics and magnitudes than those dealt with in the early days of banking. Erik Banks seeks to explore the qualitative and quantitative aspects of risks attributable to financial instruments in today's markets, which are so much a part of banking business throughout the world. Banks describes the credit risks encountered in dealing with financial instruments and establishes a framework for quantifying the risks and applies framework and concepts on a product-by-product basis.
Erik Banks, responsible for global risk management at Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, has written another text on the derivatives field covering innovation in these instruments in Asia Pacific. The text acts as a detailed reference on the nature of these markets and the prospects for the Asian derivative markets, both listed and OTC. He also includes an analysis of the Australian, New Zealand and Japanese markets to fit the emerging markets into context.
The investor community is constantly looking for new sources of investment opportunity in the form of current income and capital gains. Much of the focus by fund managers, institutional investors and retail investors is currently on the global emerging markets of Asia where over $1 trillion of infrastructure and development projects will have to be funded over the next decade. In recent months, more institutions have been focusing on the fixed income markets, where returns have been impressive. The text from credit risk authority Erik Banks provides a detailed review of the emerging Asian fixed income markets and their primary instruments, along with a discussion of market participants, market mechanics and associated hedging and financing instruments.
Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. Unlike other textbooks, which focus solely on standard definitions, Financial Lexicon will include formal corporate business terms alongside the jargon that has entered business life. Terms defined in TFL will be drawn from all of the major sectors in the international capital markets and the financial industry.