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A hands-on guide to the theory and practice of bank credit analysis and ratings

In this revised edition, Jonathan Golin and Philippe Delhaise expand on the role of bank credit analysts and the methodology of their practice. Offering investors and practitioners an insider´s perspective on how rating agencies assign all-important credit ratings to banks, the book is updated to reflect today´s environment of increased oversight and demands for greater transparency. It includes international case studies of bank credit analysis, suggestions and insights for understanding and complying with the Basel Accords, techniques for reviewing asset quality on both quantitative and qualitative bases, explores the restructuring of distressed banks, and much more.
Features charts, graphs, and spreadsheet illustrations to further explain topics discussed in the text
Includes international case studies from North America, Asia, and Europe that offer readers a global perspective
Offers coverage of the Basel Accords on Capital Adequacy and Liquidity and shares the authors´ view that a bank could be compliant under those and other regulations without being creditworthy
A uniquely practical guide to bank credit analysis as it is currently practiced around the world, The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook, Second Edition is a must-have resource for equity analysts, credit analysts, and bankers, as well as wealth managers and investors.

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Preface to the New Edition vii

CHAPTER 1 The Credit Decision 1

CHAPTER 2 The Credit Analyst 37

CHAPTER 3 The Business of Banking 87

CHAPTER 4 Deconstructing the Bank Income Statement 155

CHAPTER 5 Deconstructing a Bank´s Balance Sheet 215

CHAPTER 6 Earnings and Profitability 261

CHAPTER 7 Asset Quality 337

CHAPTER 8 Management and Corporate Governance 415

CHAPTER 9 Capital 449

CHAPTER 10 Liquidity 493

CHAPTER 11 Country and Sovereign Risk 551

CHAPTER 12 Risk Management, Basel Accords, and Ratings 641

CHAPTER 13 The Banking Regulatory Regime 717

CHAPTER 14 Crises: Banking, Financial, Twin, Economic, Debt, Sovereign, and Policy Crises 781

CHAPTER 15 The Resolution of Banking Crises 847

About the Authors 907

Index 909

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JONATHAN GOLIN, a graduate of Berkeley and Harvard Law School, has more than fifteen years experience in the financial sector. He worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit and as a credit analyst at Tokai Asia in Hong Kong before joining Thomson BankWatch Asia in 1997, a specialist rating agency. After BankWatch was absorbed by Fitch Ratings in 2000, Jonathan wrote the first edition of The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook (2002). Subsequently, he relocated to London and established his own bank credit research and training consultancy. Clients included Rabobank, Genworth Financial, Euromoney Training, the African Development Bank, and the Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation. More recently, Jonathan was employed by the UK s main bank regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a risk specialist. Other books in which he had a lead role include Capital Flows Along the Mekong: The Complete Guide to Investing in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam (1995) and Covered Bonds beyond Pfandbriefe: Innovations, Investment and Structured Alternatives (2006).

PHILIPPE DELHAISE, PhD, is the founder of Capital Information Services and the Carbon Management Consulting Group. He was the President of the Asia Division of Thomson BankWatch, and served as an adjunct professor of finance at City University of Hong Kong. Philippe Delhaise is a graduate of the University of Louvain (Belgium), with degrees in engineering, philosophy, and economics, and a graduate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is currently the President of CTRisks Rating, a licensed rating agency in Hong Kong. In 1998, Wiley published Delhaise s well-received book on the 1997 banking crisis in Asia: Asia in Crisis: The Implosion of the Banking and Finance Systems.

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