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“Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment: A Regulatory Approach”

New book by Wassim Shahin and Elias El-Achkar studies changes in the financial environment surrounding banks and bank regulations.

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Dr. Wassim Shahin, LAU’s assistant provost for special external projects and professor of business economics, has a new book titled “Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment: A Regulatory Approach,” which is his ninth release. 

Shahin co-authored the book with Dr. Elias El-Achkar, director of research and statistics at the Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL) and faculty member in the Department of Finance and Accounting at the LAU Adnan Kassar School of Business.

The book explores three of the developments and challenges that are prevalent in the financial environment surrounding bank regulators and banks in the 21st century—the increase in the number of financial and economic crimes; the global financial crisis of 2008; the creation of a European monetary union and central bank. (“Banking and Monetary Policies,” n.d.).

This book falls under different subject categories, namely international finance and economics, banking, financial law and white collar crime, and is published by Routledge under the series “Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking.” 

Reference:

Banking and Monetary Policies in a Changing Financial Environment: A Regulatory Approach. (n.d.) Retrieved from: https://www.routledge.com/Banking-and-Monetary-Policies-in-a-Changing-Financial-Environment-A-regulatory/Shahin-El-Achkar/p/book/9781138913530