This is a carefully researched and valuable study of one of the major strategic issues in banking: the relative role of banks and the capital market in meeting the financing requirements of the corporate sector. Feeney brings to the study both a solid academic framework and the insights of a practitioner.' - Professor David T. Llewellyn, Loughborough University of Technology The increasing trend towards the securitization of retail and wholesale financial assets is examined in depth with various chapters devoted to the characteristics and significance of the different securitized assets and...