From Good to Bad Bankers Lessons Learned from a 50-Year Career in Banking /

• Main Author: de Juan, Aristóbulo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Finance.; Banks and banking.; Finance-History.; Popular Science in Finance.; Banking.; Financial History.

Bankers are administrators of other people's money, and they are responsible both to their depositors and to other stakeholders. Human nature being what it is, however, they sometimes fall prey to overweening ambition, coming to see themselves as the rightful beneficiaries of the moneys entrust...

Table of Contents:

• 1. From good bankers to bad bankers
• 2. The Spanish banking crisis of the 1970s and 1980s
• 3. The microeconomic roots of the banking crisis
• 4. Bank reform in eastern Europe
• 5. 'False friends' and banking reform
• 6. The dynamics of undisclosed insolvency
• 7. Obstacles in the way of crisis resolution excerpts from the paper Despejar el Terreno (Clearing the Decks)
• 8. The financial systems and the ethics of restructuring
• 9. Liquidity and euphoria
• 10. The recommended option
• 11. The problems of the European banking union
• 12. Stability and its risks
• 13. Practical lessons for dealing with problem banks
• 14. Non performing loans - NPLs.