Pros: one of its kind books on bank credit analysis

This book The Bank Credit Analysis Handbook: A Guide for Analysts, Bankers and Investors by Jonathan Golin is a user-friendly handbook of theory and practice in bank credit analysis and ratings and is fully updated and revised. This book explains the role and methodologies of bank credit analysts, giving both investors and practitioners an insider's perspective on how rating agencies assign all-important credit ratings to banks.

suggestions and insights for understanding and complying with the Basel Accords; techniques for reviewing asset quality on both quantitative and qualitative bases; studies of the restructuring of distressed banks, bank rating types and symbologies; and more. This book has great scope world-wide as in this book the author deals with the continuing development of world-wide bank regulation and the role and function of rating agencies.