... loan rates and fees for financial services.A BOUT THE AUTHORProfessor Shelagh Heffernan is currently Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business School, City University, London and has been ... detailed overview of financial repression and reform, with its mainfocus on Russia, China and India.The next part of Chapter 6 reviews the principles and practice of Islamic banking. Iran and Pakistan ... some of them, periodically, to default? What is the nature of sovereign risk and how is it linked to and compounded by political risk? Having looked at the fundamentals in banking, risk management, ...