By: Prof. Dr. H. Veithzal Rival
Financial institution is currently growing very rapidly. The forms and types are now various with all the uniqueness and problems. However, knowledge of the user community has not as fast as the growth of these financial institutions.
Similarly, the availability of human resources qualified in accordance with the qualifications needed to enter the working world financial institutions are still far behind. In fact, one important lesson drawn by the crisis in Asia in 1998 was the need for understanding of the activities, functions, management, and risk in banking, non-banking financial institutions and financial markets. In addition, the function of central banks in conducting strategic formulation and implementation of monetary policy, regulation, and banking supervision and regulation and supervision of payment systems also need to be understood.
Therefore this book can be used as a reference material is intact and complete as this book presents a comprehensive material regarding financial institutions, ranging from the centralized banking, banking management, and non-banking financial institutions. In addition, this book also provides financial institutions viewed from two sides (Dual Economic System), which is the conventional system and the system of syariah. Material that can facilitate the reader’s complete because only by reading one book, readers will acquire the knowledge, as well as detailed information on banks and other financial institutions so that this book is not just a compulsory textbook for students of the Faculty of Economics, but also a valuable reference for banking and finance practitioners.
