TY - BOOK AU - Frost, Stephen M. TI - The Bank analyst's handbook: money, risk and conjuring tricks SN - 470091185 AV - HG 1601 .F76 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - England PB - John Wiley & Son, Inc. KW - BANKS AND BANKING N1 - Incorrect Title Cover; Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Financial systems -- Part II. The Spread Business -- Part III. Risk Management -- Part III. Risk Management -- Part IV. Capital Markets -- Part V. Bank Valuations and Acquisitions -- Part VI. Problem Loans and Banking Crises -- Part VII. Supervision and Financial Statements -- Part VIII. Primers N2 - It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is virtually impenetrable to everybody else ER -