With the arrival of the 'Internet of Things' (IoT), smartphones, real-time payments systems, plus FinTech activity, Financial Inclusion services can now be integrated into a country's National Payment System (NPS), which means there should be no systemic barriers to transitioning the socio-economic pyramid, as actors build their financial status.
Sustainable Finance Fundamentals provides an accessible overview of this critical, rapidly growing area at the intersection of finance and sustainability.
Sustainable Finance Fundamentals provides an accessible overview of this critical, rapidly growing area at the intersection of finance and sustainability.
Charlotte-based NationsBank, formerly named NCNB, became one of the nation's leading financial powers following its acquisition in 1988 of First Republic Bank of Texas and its merger in 1991 with Atlanta-based C&S/Sovran.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room of macroeconomics is the question of why the overlapping generations model didn't become the central workhorse model for macroeconomics.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room of macroeconomics is the question of why the overlapping generations model didn't become the central workhorse model for macroeconomics.
Bank failures, crises, global banking, megamergers, changes in technology-the effect of these world events is to weaken existing methods of regulating bank safety and soundness, and even to make some methods ineffective.
Bank failures, near failures, and crises are common throughout the world, and particularly in the major G-10 trading countries, including the United States, Germany, and Japan.
In a world of increasing cross-border financial transactions, The Bank for International Settlements stands out as the oldest existing international financial institution and among the most controversial.
Global competition, technological development, and changes in banking laws and regulations are transforming the role of commercial banks and the nature of the banking business within the U.
This book addresses the urgent need to examine central bank policies in response to the global supply and demand shock brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, asking whether central banks are doing enough to address inequalities and concerns around climate change and emerging technologies.
This book addresses the urgent need to examine central bank policies in response to the global supply and demand shock brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, asking whether central banks are doing enough to address inequalities and concerns around climate change and emerging technologies.
Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations.
A jargon-free guide to how investment funds operate and have broken free of the financial crises to grow and prosperIn One Step Ahead, Timothy Spangler author of the award-winning Forbes.
This book argues that focusing on the green economy and green finance is essential to counteract the catastrophic, socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Von heruntergekommenen Städten an der sibirischen Grenze über Steueroasen in der Karibik bis zu den Verbrechervillen in London und Manhattan – irgendwas läuft falsch in dieser Welt.
Banking Law and Financial Regulation in the UK and EU seeks to blend orthodox topics covered within the banking and financial law syllabus, such as sources of banking and financial law, financial markets, financial and banking institutions, financial transactions, and banking and financial insolvency, with a careful analysis of emerging issues and more contemporary topics.
This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions.
This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions.
The financial service industry is already changing significantly as a result of four important areas of innovation; the development of artificial intelligence (AI), innovation of Blockchain (Decentralized system), the fintech revolution, and the emergence of crypto-assets.
This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans.
Lowy avoids the easy answers, like blaming it on fraud and greed, and explains how something of this magnitude could occur under the noses of those who should have protected the taxpayer.
For two decades thinking on economic policy has been dominated by the idea of economic liberalization in general and financial deregulation in particular.
The advent of digital stablecoins and the continuing decline of cash are prompting central banks across the world to explore developing their own digital currencies.
This volume of the International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics explores the latest economic and financial developments in Africa and Asia.
Die Deutsche Bank steht in dem Verdacht, dass sie in ihren eigenen Reihen die Entstehung von Subkulturen zugelassen hat, deren kriminelle Energie und Schadensträchtigkeit das Leistungsspektrum jedweder Mafia-Organisation bei weitem übertreffen.
Banking Law and Financial Regulation in the UK and EU seeks to blend orthodox topics covered within the banking and financial law syllabus, such as sources of banking and financial law, financial markets, financial and banking institutions, financial transactions, and banking and financial insolvency, with a careful analysis of emerging issues and more contemporary topics.
The advent of new digital currencies has challenged our notions about money, its function and purpose, and our faith in the financial and banking structures that underpin its legitimacy.
