The article "A bank analyst's handbook: money, risk, and conjuring tricks" covers various aspects of financial systems, the spread business, risk management, capital markets, bank valuations, acquisitions, problem loans, banking crises, supervision, and financial statements. It provides insights into securities markets, securities valuations, central banks, funding, lending, risk management, fund management, investment banking, securitization, and more. The handbook also includes primers on statistics for finance, derivation of duration and convexity, financial institutions, and a glossary of terms.