(BQ) Part 2 book "Financial markets and institutions" has contents: Commercial banks - industry overview, commercial banks’ financial statements and analysis; regulation of commercial banks, insurance companies, securities firms and investment banks, mutual funds and hedge funds, pension funds,.and other contents. | part three Commercial Banks chapter Commercial Banks 1 1 Industry Overview O U T L I N E Learning Commercial Banks as a Sector of the Financial Institutions Industry: Chapter Overview Definition of a Commercial Bank Balance Sheets and Recent Trends Goals LG 11-1. Define what a commercial bank is. LG 11-2. Identify the main assets held by commercial banks. LG 11-3. Identify the main liabilities held by commercial banks. Assets Liabilities Equity LG 11-4. Understand the types of off-balance-sheet activities that commercial banks undertake. Off-Balance-Sheet Activities Other Fee-Generating Activities Size, Structure, and Composition of the Industry Bank Size and Concentration Bank Size and Activities LG 11-5. Discuss which factors have motivated the significant decrease in the number of commercial banks. LG 11-6. Evaluate the performance of the commercial banking industry in recent years. LG 11-7. Know the main regulators of commercial banks. Industry Performance Regulators LG 11-8. List the world’s biggest banks. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Federal Reserve System State Authorities Global Issues Advantages and Disadvantages of International Expansion Global Banking Performance COMMERCIAL BANKS AS A SECTOR OF THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INDUSTRY: CHAPTER OVERVIEW The largest (in dollar value of assets) FI group is commercial banks, also called depository institutions because a significant proportion of their funds come from customer deposits. Savings institutions and credit unions (discussed in Chapter 14) are also depository institutions. Chapters 11 through 13 describe commercial banks, their financial statements, and the regulations that govern their operations. As we examine the structure of commercial banks and their financial statements, notice a distinguishing feature between them and nonfinancial firms illustrated in Figure 11–1. Specifically, commercial banks’ major .
