Contents -- 1 What is Wall Street? -- 2 How we got here -- 3 Wall Street scandals -- 4 Markets, markets, markets -- 5 The securities industry -- 6 Banking -- 7 Insurance companies and pension funds -- 8 Mutual funds -- 9 Stock exchanges -- 10 Futures and options exchanges -- 11 Payments system, clearing houses and depositories -- 12 Regulation and regulators -- 13 Global money centre -- 14 Wall Street in crisis -- Appendix 1: Financial-services industry institutions and organisations -- Appendix 2: Principal players -- Appendix 3: Key events, 1792-2003 -- Further reading -- Index.