Resources to learn about banking and financial services industry Can you recommend resources to learn about how the banks and modern financial system work?
Assuming you want to study finance and banking from an economic perspective then common introductory texts are

Exchange Rates and International Finance from Copeland
Financial Markets and Institutions from Mishkin
Money, Banking and Financial Markets from  Cecchetti &amp; Schoenholtz

Depending on whether you are interested in macro or micro perspective you will want to build upon the above with

The microeconomics of banking from Freiax
Intermediate Financial Theory form Danthine, Jean-Pierre
International Macroeconomics and Finance: Theory and Empirical Methods by Nelson C. Mark

The above-mentioned three intermediate/graduate  books also presuppose some knowledge of econometrics, microeconomics and mathematics so you might want to also first study that before delving into these.