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Professor Shelagh Heffernan is currently Professor of Banking and Finance at Cass Business
School, City University, London and has been a visiting Professor at several universities.
Modern Banking is her fourth book.
A former Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford University, Professor Heffernan is also a
past beneficiary of a Leverhulme Trust Research Award, which funded new research on
competition in banking, and recently received a second award from the Leverhulme Trust.
She publishes in top academic journals – her paper, ‘How do UK Institutions Really Price
their Banking Products?’ (Journal of Banking and Finance) was chosen as one of the top 50
published articles by Emerald Management Review.
Current research includes: SMEs and banking services, the conversion of mutuals to bank
stock firms, monetary policy and pass through (funded by an ESRC grant), and M&As in
banking. Professor Heffernan is an Associate Member of the Higher Education Academy
and has received two Distinguished Teaching and Learning awards.