Product lines of traditionally heterogeneous financial institutions are rapidly fusing into a homogeneous blend. Institutions and market structures are reshaping themselves to lower the cost of serving customer demand for financial services. This paper contends that contemporary adaptations exploit scope economies rooted in technological change and deposit‐insurance subsidies to innovative forms of risk‐bearing. As they reorient work flows, financial firms are simultaneously restructuring their organizations to lower net burdens from government regulation. Alternative state and federal regulatory and legislative bodies compete vigorously for the regulatory business of developing institutional hybrids. Evolution of Federal Reserve policy toward “nonbank banks” exemplifies the process

PART ONE: Introduction to Bank Management: The Changing Nature of Bank Management Understanding a Bank's Financial Statements A Model for Measuring Returns and Risks in Banking Evaluation of a Bank's Performance PART TWO: Basic Asset, Liability and Capital Decisions: Measuring and Providing Reserves and Liquidity Managing the Security Portfolio Trends in Acquisition and Cost of Bank Funds Capital Planning, Adequacy and Generation Capital Acquisition and Management PART THREE: Managing the Loan Portfolio: The Bank Credit Organization Lending Principles and the Business Borrower Commercial Lending Consumer Lending Special Markets for Bank Loans Part Four: Integrative Bank Financial Decisions: Interest Margin Sensitivity and Management Advanced Alternatives for Measuring and Managing Interest Rate Risk Innovations in Products and Pricing Bank Mergers and Acquisitions International Banking Long Range Planning for Future Performance