Cover; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Contents; Chapter 1. Banking in the New Millennium; Chapter 2. Evolution of Commercial Banking; Chapter 3. Banking Systems; Chapter 4. Functions of a Commercial Bank; Chapter 5. Analysis of Assets and Liabilities of Scheduled Commercial Banks; Chapter 6. Efficiency of the Banking System; Chapter 7. Management of Capital; Chapter 8. Risks in Commercial Banking; Chapter 9. Derivatives for Risk Management; Chapter 10. Interest Rate Risk; Chapter 11. Liquidity Risk; Chapter 12. Credit Risk; Chapter 13. Investment Management.
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About the Book: The basic function of a commercial bank is risk management. Banks have to adopt a risk management approach to maximise shareholder value/net value and to conform to the RBI guidelines (1999). Further the adoption of ALM and diversification of activities to earn fee income has resulted in the assumption of risks which had to be hedged by derivatives. Since major banks are foreign exchange dealers, exchange risk and interest risk have to be covered. Finally derivatives themselves carry a lot of risk which has become a major concern of regulators. The book analyses and prese.