Book:
Practice of Banking in Pakistan
by
M. Ali
(B.Com, MBA, DA-IBP)
Printed: July 2009
Rs. 400/-
31/1, Khayaban-e-Shaheed, Phase-V, DHA, Karachi.
Pp. 182
| Timothy W. Koch | S. Scott MacDonald |
| Timothy W. Koch is professor of Finance and holds the South Carolina Bankers Association chair of Banking at the University of South Carolina. He received a B.A. degree in mathematics from Wartburg College and a Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University. He has taught at Baylor University and Texas Tech University and served as director of the Texas Tech School of Banking. In addition to college teaching, Dr. Koch currently serves as President of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and teaches at several graduate schools for professional bankers throughout the United States. He also serves as faculty advisor to the Graduate School of Bank Investments and Financial Management offered at the University of South Carolina. He has also taught seminars on risk management to bankers in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Ukraine as part of a U.S. Treasury program to assist private banking in Eastern Europe. Dr. Koch’s research and writing focuses on bank risk management, performance analysis and improvement, the pricing of financial futures and fixed-income securities, and public finance. He has published in a wide range of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial & Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, National Tax Journal, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Fixed Income, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Portfolio Management, Municipal Finance Journal, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He has served as Treasurer of the Financial Management Association and President of the Eastern Finance Association. He also authored the General Banking curriculum materials used at many state-sponsored banking schools and is a frequent seminar leader for the banking industry. | S. Scott MacDonald is President and CEO, SW Graduate School of Banking (SWGSB) Foundation, Director of the Assemblies for Bank Directors, and Adjunct Professor of Finance, Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. He received his B.A. degree in economics from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Dr. MacDonald joined the Southern Methodist University faculty as a visiting professor of Finance in 1997. He took over as director of the SWGSB Foundation in 1998. Prior to joining SMU, he was an associate professor of Finance and director of the School of Applied Banking at Texas Tech University. He also served as assistant director of Business and Financial Analysis at RRC Inc., a research consulting firm, before joining the Texas Tech faculty. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader for the banking industry, professional programs and banking schools. Dr. MacDonald has also served as an expert resource witness before the Texas state Senate. Dr. MacDonald is the author of many articles in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Business, The Journal of Futures Markets, The Review of Futures Markets, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is also the author of curriculum materials for the Independent Bankers Association, The Assemblies for Bank Directors, and other professional banking programs. Dr. MacDonald is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards and is past chairman of the board of directors, Texas Tech Federal Credit Union, and an advisory board member of the Independent Bankers Association of the Texas Education Council. |