The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook

Part I: Introduction 1. The Role of the Bank Credit Analyst 2. The Business of Banking 3. An Overview and Introduction to Bank Credit Analysis 4. A New Regulatory & Risk Management Environment Under Basel 2 Part II: The Banking Environment 5. The Banking Environment: Industry Health & the Credit Cycle 6. Country Risk: An Introduction to Sovereign Risk Analysis 7. The Regulatory Regime The Contours of Prudential Regulation of Banks 8. The Product Environment Part III: Bank Financial Statements and the CAMEL Model 9. Deconstructing a Bank's Financial Statements, Part One Understanding The Income Statement 10. Deconstructing a Bank's Financial Statements, Part Two The Balance Sheet 11. Introduction to the CAMEL model 12. Beyond CAMEL Part IV Applying the CAMEL Model (3z) 13. Earnings & Profitability Evaluating Overall Performance 14. Earnings & Profitability Evaluating the Interest Income and Non-Interest Income Components of Revenue 15. An Introduction to Asset Quality Non-Performing Loans and the Credit Cycle 16. Qualitative Review of Asset Quality 17. Quantitative Review Of Asset Quality 18. Capital Cushion Against Loss 19. Capital Adequacy: Basel I and its Deficiencies 20. Capital Adequacy: The Transition to Basel II 21. Funding and Liquidity, Part I Liquidity and Asset-Liability Management 22. Funding and Liquidity, Part II Funding the Bank and Ratio Analysis 23. Bank Management and Corporate Governance Part V: Financial Quality 24. Financial Quality & The Importance of Accounting Treatment 25. How Banks Fudge Their Figures, Part I 26. How Banks Fudge Their Figures, Part II Part VI: When Banks Go Bad 27. The Distressed Bank, Part IAims and Methods of Restructuring 28. The Distressed Bank, Part II Recapitalization 29. The Distressed Bank, Part III Illustrative Approaches to Restructuring -- Part VII: Other Financial Institutions 30. Analyzing Investment Banks and Specialist Institutions 31. Analyzing Other Financial Institutions Part VIII: Banks and the Rating

JONATHAN GOLIN, a graduate of Berkeley and Harvard Law School, has more than fifteen years' experience in the financial sector. He worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a credit analyst at Tokai Asia in Hong Kong before joining Thomson BankWatch Asia in 1997, a specialist rating agency. After BankWatch was absorbed by Fitch Ratings in 2000, Jonathan wrote the first edition of The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook (2002). Subsequently, he relocated to London and established his own bank credit research and training consultancy. Clients included Rabobank, Genworth Financial, Euromoney Training, the African Development Bank, and the Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation. More recently, Jonathan was employed by the UK's main bank regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a risk specialist. Other books in which he had a lead role include Capital Flows Along the Mekong: The Complete Guide to Investing in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam (1995) and Covered Bonds beyond Pfandbriefe: Innovations, Investment and Structured Alternatives (2006).
 
PHILIPPE DELHAISE, PhD, is the founder of Capital Information Services and the Carbon Management Consulting Group. He was the President of the Asia Division of Thomson BankWatch, and served as an adjunct professor of finance at City University of Hong Kong. Philippe Delhaise is a graduate of the University of Louvain (Belgium), with degrees in engineering, philosophy, and economics, and a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is currently the President of CTRisks Rating, a licensed rating agency in Hong Kong. In 1998, Wiley published Delhaise's well-received book on the 1997 banking crisis in Asia: Asia in Crisis: The Implosion of the Banking and Finance Systems.