Timothy King is a Professor of Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He is also an External Examiner at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (UK) (Undergraduate, Masters and MBA programmes) and an External Examiner at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (UK) (Postgraduate programmes) alongside being a member of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group).Jonathan Williams is a Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Surrey, UK. Professor Williams is the Chair of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group), Treasurer of the Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group of BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association), and a member of the Chartered Banker Institute’s Quality and Standards Committee. He is the Series Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Stock market reaction to external CEO appointments: Evidence from the Nordic countries.- Chapter 3: How do stock markets value bank diversification? Evidence from the Eurozone.- Chapter 4: Creating value in M&A: does ESG performance matter for acquirer returns?.- Chapter 5: The existence and role of bank risk committees around the Global Financial Crisis.- Chapter 6: The remuneration committee: A descriptive analysis of Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs).- Chapter 7: Bank deposits and deposit rates: The impact of COVID-19 and the effect of ESG scores.- Chapter 8: Do individual investors drive volatility?  Evidence from the Robintrack dataset.- Chapter 9: Should shareholders just vote no? Examining the impact of shareholder proposals.- Chapter 10: The diffusion of blockchain technology for financial reporting functions seen through the lens of norm lifecycles.- Chapter 11: ESG, asset quality and financial performance in banking: State of the art and future research directions.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

Timothy King is a Professor of Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He is also an External Examiner at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (UK) (Undergraduate, Masters and MBA programmes) and an External Examiner at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (UK) (Postgraduate programmes) alongside being a member of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group).Jonathan Williams is a Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Surrey, UK. Professor Williams is the Chair of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group), Treasurer of the Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group of BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association), and a member of the Chartered Banker Institute’s Quality and Standards Committee. He is the Series Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Stock market reaction to external CEO appointments: Evidence from the Nordic countries.- Chapter 3: How do stock markets value bank diversification? Evidence from the Eurozone.- Chapter 4: Creating value in M&A: does ESG performance matter for acquirer returns?.- Chapter 5: The existence and role of bank risk committees around the Global Financial Crisis.- Chapter 6: The remuneration committee: A descriptive analysis of Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs).- Chapter 7: Bank deposits and deposit rates: The impact of COVID-19 and the effect of ESG scores.- Chapter 8: Do individual investors drive volatility?  Evidence from the Robintrack dataset.- Chapter 9: Should shareholders just vote no? Examining the impact of shareholder proposals.- Chapter 10: The diffusion of blockchain technology for financial reporting functions seen through the lens of norm lifecycles.- Chapter 11: ESG, asset quality and financial performance in banking: State of the art and future research directions.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.

Timothy King is a Professor of Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He is also an External Examiner at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow (UK) (Undergraduate, Masters and MBA programmes) and an External Examiner at Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University (UK) (Postgraduate programmes) alongside being a member of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group).Jonathan Williams is a Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Surrey, UK. Professor Williams is the Chair of the European Association of Teachers of Banking and Finance (The Wolpertinger Group), Treasurer of the Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group of BAFA (British Accounting and Finance Association), and a member of the Chartered Banker Institute’s Quality and Standards Committee. He is the Series Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Stock market reaction to external CEO appointments: Evidence from the Nordic countries.- Chapter 3: How do stock markets value bank diversification? Evidence from the Eurozone.- Chapter 4: Creating value in M&A: does ESG performance matter for acquirer returns?.- Chapter 5: The existence and role of bank risk committees around the Global Financial Crisis.- Chapter 6: The remuneration committee: A descriptive analysis of Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs).- Chapter 7: Bank deposits and deposit rates: The impact of COVID-19 and the effect of ESG scores.- Chapter 8: Do individual investors drive volatility?  Evidence from the Robintrack dataset.- Chapter 9: Should shareholders just vote no? Examining the impact of shareholder proposals.- Chapter 10: The diffusion of blockchain technology for financial reporting functions seen through the lens of norm lifecycles.- Chapter 11: ESG, asset quality and financial performance in banking: State of the art and future research directions.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.