How did the US financial crisis snowball into USD 15 trillion global losses? This book offers a clear synthesis and original analysis of the various factors that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, and is intended as a supplementary course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in finance or finance-related courses.

Preface; Chapter One: The Crisis and the Too Big to FRAME Problem, the BIG Picture First; Chapter Two: Evolution of the Structure of the Global Financial System Pre-Crisis & Systemic Hot Spots; Chapter Three: Crisis Unravelling & Key Events; Chapter Four: Systemic and Institutional Crisis Cost ; Chapter Five: Regulatory Regimes & Response to the Crisis; Chapter Six: Macroprudential Analysis and Early Warning Systems (EWS) for Fragility & Crises; Chapter Seven: Regulatory Tumbleweed or is it Tangleweed? Appendix 1: Current Crisis Time Log Across the Globe; Appendix 2: A Brief History of Crises in the Past; Appendix 3: References

Nashwa Saleh is currently a doctoral researcher at Cass Business School. She holds an MSc Finance (2002) from London Business School, and a BA (Cum Laude) in Business Administration from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She is a CFA Chartholder and member of the UKSIP since 2001.