Banks, bankers, and bankruptcies under crisis : understanding failures and mergers during the great recession / Dimitris N. Chorafas.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index.

Banks too big to fail -- Banks and regulators -- Banking practices and the evolution of trading rules -- Euroland's banking union and its stress tests -- Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns -- American international group -- Federal national mortgage association and federal loan mortgage -- Citigroup -- British banks at the edge -- Euroland's banks -- The challenges Japan faced with its banking industry -- Japanese banks which bled in the river of red ink.

Uses case studies of failed banks, banks that would have failed without taxpayer intervention, and in some cases banks obliged to merge under government pressure, to better understand global banking today.

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