Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the Bank of New York and Bruce Rappaport -- The Indonesian affair : spies, lies, and oil -- The underworld of banking and financial fraud : Inter Maritime and Castle banks -- The Antigua experience : crooked banks and narcotraffickers -- Rappaport at work : Iraq, Oman, and Iran/Contra -- The Bank of New York and Rappaport : together at last -- Moving hot money : Riggs National Bank and Valmet S.A. -- The criminal element : Benex and the Red Mafia -- Inkombank and BONY : the Rashomon effect and the Klein hypotheses -- Conclusion : the crisis in Russian banking and the character of the Bank of New York.