Bank Strategies and Challenges in the New Europe

YENER ALTUNBAS Research Fellow, South Bank University, London GÖRAN BERGENDAHL Professor of Business Administration, Gothenburg University PHILIP BOURKE Irish Banks' Professor, Banking and Finance, University College, Dublin SANTIAGO CARBO Professor Titular, Department of Applied Economics, University of Granada MARCEL R. CREEMERS Information Systems Management Professor, Vrije University, Amsterdam JOE FALZON Head of the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Malta ESTEBAN FERNÁNDEZ Professor of Business Administration, Oviedo University RAY KINSELLA Professor of Banking and Financial Services, University of Ulster PIETER KLAASSEN Vice President, Credit Risk Modeling, ABN-AMRO Bank, N.V. Amsterdam TED LINDBLOM Professor and Director of Postgraduate Studies in Business Administration, University of Gothenburg ANDRÉ LUCAS Research Fellow, Department of Finance, Vrije University, Amsterdam PHILIP MOLYNEUX Professor, Banking and Finance and Director, Institute of European Finance, University of Wales, Bangor ELISABETTA MONTANARO Professor of Banking, University of Siena JOSE M. MONTÉS Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Oviedo University FRANCISCO PÉREZ Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Valencia JACK REVELL Professor Emeritus, University of Wales CLAUDIO SCALA Professor of Statistics, University of Siena RAY SHAW Director of Management Consultancy Company MARIO TONVERONACHI Professor of Monetary Economics, University ofSiena EMILI TORTOSA-AUSINA Teaching Assistant in Economics CAMILO J. VÁZQUES Professor of Business Administration, Oviedo University JONATHAN WILLIAMS Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of Wales, Bangor

List of Tables List of Figures Preface Notes on the Contributors The Bank is Dead, Long Live the Bank; R.Shaw Technical Change in European Banking; Y.Altunbas & P.Molyneux Competitive Advantage Based on Information Technology in Banking; E.Fernández, J.M.Montes & C.J.Vásquez Emerging Methods of Payment; J.Revell Dimensions of Actions Distribution; M.R.Creemers Card Payments: Pricing and Competition; T.Lindblom The Unified European Banking Market and the Convergence of National Banking Sectors; E.Montanaro, C.Scala & M.Tonveronachi Product Mix of the Spanish Banking Firms: Do Competition Clubs Exist?; F.Pérez & E.Tortosa-Ausina Institutional Investment Flows and the Regions of the UK: A Case for a New Financial Infrastructure?; J.Williams Characteristics of International Financial Centres; J.Falzon Globalisation, Cross-Border Trade in Financial Services, and Offshore Banking: The Case of Ireland; P.Burke & R.Kinsella The Impact of CAR on Bank Capital Augmentation in Spain; Y.Altunbas, S.Carbo & E.P.M.Gardener The Management of Foreign Exchange Exposure and Interest Rate Exposures in a Number of UK and Swedish Firms 1985 and 1996; G.Bergendahl Fat Tails and the Effect of Optimal Asset Allocations; A.Lucas & P.Klaassen Index