Operations management is becoming critical among the success factors of
financial institutions. Banking/ Trading - Operations Management focuses
on the particular challenges and new trends the operations manager has
to address, which involves a balancing act between cost optimization and
growing business requirements. Banking operations have been developed
from data-entry and mass labour-intensive processes to highly automated
process controlled environments. This work comprises a mixture of
practical and academic elements; it is designed to contribute to better
functioning operations departments by providing the tools to implement
theoretical concepts in real situations, proven in daily practice.