"Napoleon" by Kevin Brownlow

"Napoleon" by Kevin Brownlow

This new textbook provides an up-to-date overview of international banking as the second decade of the twenty-first century unfolds. Integrating geo-economic, operational, institutional and regulatory changes in the financial sector, the volume's methodology incorporates specific case studies and research, combining theory with practical examples to illustrate the impact and consequences of past and present financial crises.

The volume considers the core aspects of international banking, including its structural and technical features, historical context, institutional evolution in core markets, and wholesale, retail, investment and private banking. It uses specific examples from past and present literature, post-2008 case studies and histories, and research materials, offering a fully updated overview of how international banks respond to global crises, the origin, efficacy and evolution of financial markets, and the regulatory framework within which they function.

One chapter is devoted to the evolution and potential of new markets, including the financial sectors of the BRICS and other emerging economies. Each chapter examines background, causes, impact and resolution, focusing on specific cases and their broader implications for the sector.　

This textbook is a guide to the new, and at times unchartered, landscape to be navigated by large domestic, cross-regional and global banks, and will be invaluable reading for students of finance, business and economics, as well as for those in the financial sector.

Kevin Brownlow, a silent cinema historian who began collecting at the age of eleven, lives in London. The Parade's Gone By..., The War, the West, and the Wilderness, Beneath the Mask of Innocence, Hollywood: The Pioneers, and Napolean: Abel Gance's Classic Cinema, which chronicled his celebrated reconstruction of that iconic masterwork, are among his works. He has co-directed two feature films with Andrew Mollo, It Happened Here and Winstanley, as well as several television documentaries with David Gill, notably the thirteen-part series Hollywood, which premiered in 1980, and more recently Unknown Chaplin, Buster Keaton: A Hard Art to Follow, and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius.