Banking

Networks, systems, and data join the financial markets into a single interrelated environment that processes millions of transactions in real time.

Trading on the financial markets requires the mastery of many subjects, from strategies and the instruments being traded to market structures and the mechanisms that drive executions.

Succeeding in the financial markets requires a mastery of many disciplines.

Managers can deploy and manage economic capital more effectively when they understand how their decisions add value to their organizations.

Just how successful is that investment?

Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies covers the global regulation of financial institutions.

How can managers increase their ability to calculate price and risk data for financial instruments while decreasing their dependence on a myriad of specific instrument variants?

The dynamic environment of investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms comes to life in David Stowell's introduction to the ways they challenge and sustain each other.

In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management.

Anyone reading the business section of a newspaper lately knows that the financial exchanges--stock, bonds, FX, commodities, and so forth--are undergoing tremendous transformations.

The Bond and Money Markets is an invaluable reference to all aspects of fixed income markets and instruments.

The Banker's Handbook on Credit Risk shows you how to comply with Basel II regulations on credit risk step by step, building on the basics in credit risk up to advanced credit risk methodologies.

The growth of financial intermediation research has yielded a host of questions that have pushed "e;design"e; issues to the fore even as the boundary between financial intermediation and corporate finance has blurred.

This two-volume set summarizes recent research on corporate decision-making.

As economic and regulatory pressures drive financial institutions to seek efficiency gains by improving the quality of their trading processes and systems, firms are devoting increasing amounts of capital to maintaining their competitive edge.

Risk model validation is an emerging and important area of research, and has arisen because of Basel I and II.

Corporate Governance and regulatory presssures have been much in the news lately.

The Handbooks in Finance are intended to be a definitive source for comprehensive and accessible information in the field of finance.

It is now a well-know fact that mergers and acquisitions activity comes in waves.

An analysis of the major securities, derivatives and money markets from an operations point of view, 'Understanding the Markets' takes the reader through the major features and characteristics of the markets and the products.

How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperityThe global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks.

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Principles of Cash Flow Valuation is the only book available that focuses exclusively on cash flow valuation.

'Regulation and Compliance in Operations' looks at how regulation affects the operations function by focusing on regulatory issues and drivers.

The authors concentrate on the practicalities of each class of derivative, so that readers can apply the techniques in practice.

Quantitative methods have revolutionized the area of trading, regulation, risk management, portfolio construction, asset pricing and treasury activities, and governmental activity such as central banking to name but some of the applications.

Real R&D options are among the earliest modelled real options, with now ten primary practical uses: general R&D planning, planning R&D in stages, evaluating test information, new product development timing, operations, abandonment, risk sharing, market funding, industry strategy and regulation.

'Relationship and Resource Management in Operations' explains in practical terms the importance of the business relationships with internal and external counterparts while demonstrating how things can go wrong and what causes the situation.

This book is aimed at experienced practitioners in the corporate bond markets and is a specialised text for investors and traders.

The global credit derivatives market is estimated to have grown from virtually nothing in the early 1990s to over $2 trillion dollars.

Syndicated Lending aims to increase the readers awareness of the benefits and risks involved in taking part in the Syndicated Loan market.

Its unified treatment of derivative security applications to both risk management and speculative trading separates this book from others.

Fiduciary responsibilities and related court-imposed liabilities have forced investors to assess market conditions beyond gut level, resulting in the development of sophisticated decision-making tools.

As individuals are becoming more and more responsible for ensuring their own financial future, portfolio or fund management has taken on an increasingly important role in banks' ranges of offerings to their clients.

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An initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most significant events in corporate life.

In a relatively short time credit derivatives have grown to become one of the largest and most important segment of the financial markets, with deal volumes now in trillions of dollars.

This book is a detailed account of the instruments that are used in the corporate bond markets, from conventional "e;plain vanilla"e; bonds to hybrid instruments and structured products.

Contemporary Financial Intermediation, Second Edition, brings a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking.

The requirement to maximise value for shareholders is at the core of any corporate investment or financing decision.

This book is tightly focused on the pricing and hedging of fixed income securities and their derivatives.

Operational Risk Control with Basel II, provides a sound methodology for operational risk control and focuses on management risk and ways to avoid it.

The Gilt-Edged Market is specifically aimed at finance professionals and investors who need to understand the inner working of the United Kingdom gilt market.

With about $450 billion in assets, funds of hedge funds are the most recent darling of investors.

Elements of Financial Risk Management offers an introduction to modern risk management.

Credit Risk: from transaction to portfolio management provides high level, focused analysis of the nature of credit risk in investment bank portfolio management.

Credit Risk Management will enable general bankers, staff, and credit analyst trainees to understand the basic information and principles underlying credit risk evaluation, and to use those underlying principles to undertake an analysis of non financial and financial risks when preparing a credit proposal.

Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management offers a unique combination of concise, expert academic analysis of the latest technical VaR measures and their applications, and the practical realities of bank decision making about capital management and capital allocation.

Modern Portfolio Theory explores how risk averse investors construct portfolios in order to optimize market risk against expected returns.

Advances in International Accounting is a refereed, academic research annual, that is devoted to publishing articles about advancements in the development of accounting and its related disciplines from an international perspective.