Global Financial Development Report 2017/2018 : Bankers Without Borders

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Overview -- 1 Conceptual Framework, Stylized Facts, and the Role of Policy -- 2 Brick-and-Mortar Operations of International Banks -- 3 Cross-Border Lending by International Banks -- Statistical Appendixes -- A Basic Data on Financial System Characteristics, 2013-15 -- B Key Aspects of International Banking -- Bibliography -- BOXES -- O.1 Main Messages of This Report -- O.2 Views on International Banking by Practitioners: Global Financial Development Barometer -- O.3 Navigating This Report -- 1.1 A Brief Historical Perspective on International Banking -- 1.2 Useful Definitions for Understanding International Banking in the Financial System -- 1.3 The Rise of International Microfinance Institutions -- 1.4 What Constitutes a Foreign Bank Claim? An Overview of the Banking Statistics of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) -- 1.5 What Data Can Be Used to Understand the Activities of International Banks? -- 2.1 How Do Banks Expand Abroad? Branches or Subsidiaries? -- 2.2 Macroprudential Policies to Manage Credit Growth -- 2.3 Foreign Banks in Africa: The Case of Ecobank -- 2.4 Dynamics of Postcrisis International Bank Retrenchment: From Globalization to Regionalization? -- 2.5 Improving Rural Finance in Albania through Knowledge Exchange -- 2.6 Foreign Exchange Risk: The Case of Latvia -- 2.7 The Lending Cyclicality of Foreign Banks -- 2.8 The Transmission of International Monetary Policy via Foreign Banks in Mexico -- 2.9 Lending Technologies of Foreign Banks and Their Approach to SME Lending -- 2.10 The Global Expansion of Chinese Banks -- 2.11 Decentralized Global Banks and Multiple-Point-of-Entry Resolution -- 2.12 The European Banking Union.