(BQ) Ebook Handbook of International Banking: Part 1 includes the following content: Globalization and convergence of banking systems; multinational banking: historical, empirical and case perspectives; asset- backed securitization, collateralized loan obligations and credit derivatives; the new world of euro banking; competitive banking in the EU and Euroland; how to tie your hands: a currency board versus an independent central bank; free banking; islamic banking; Universal banking and shareho