Banking

This book proposes a solution to the ''too big to fail'' problem that will help to prevent future financial crises.

Die Bank Wegelin war bis zu ihrer Auflösung im Jahr 2012 die älteste noch bestehende Bank in der Schweiz.

The phenomenal growth of Islamic finance in the last few decades has been accompanied by a host of interesting questions and challenges.

First published in 1999, Kostis in this book traces the influences Western modern banking systems in Balkan states and the economic development of these countries.

The 2008 financial crisis led the whole world to ask questions of the financial industry.

Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets in the US from 1960 to 2018.

This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of Waqf (endowment), addressing specific issues, models, solutions, structures and practices.

It is often argued that international financial regulation has been substantially strengthened over the past decades through the international harmonization of financial regulation.

Now in its fourth edition, Finance: The Basics is a clear and practical introduction to the world of finance.

This book is based on a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Consumer credit information systems are the tools used by the majority of lenders to manage credit risk, with lenders accessing credit reference databases managed by third party providers to evaluate a consumer's credit application.

This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds.

Ever since the 2007-8 global financial crisis and its aftermath, Hyman Minsky's theory has never been more relevant.

Financial markets across the Arabian Peninsula have gone from being small, quasi-medieval structures in the 1960s to large world-class groupings of financial institutions.

Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance.

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "e;a great engine of state"e;The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "e;a great engine of state.

The development of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) previously centred around three regions of the world: the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive look at banking-as-a-service (Baas), equipping readers with an understanding of the origins, evolution, future and applications of BaaS and the key differences across global markets.

Die europäischen Regelungen der MiFID II sowie der MiFIR und der EMIR stellen die Finanzindustrie vor große Herausforderungen.

Under the rule of the current economic order, social injustice is ever-increasing.

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

At the beginning of the new millennium, two unstoppable processes are taking place in the world: (1) globalization of the economy; (2) information revolution.

This book analyses the formation of the Spanish banking system.

Cutting-edge technologies have recently shown great promise in a variety of activities for enhancing the existing services of a bank such as the improvement of transactions, ensuring that transactions are done correctly, and managing records of services of savings accounts, loan and mortgage services, wealth management, providing credit and debit cards, overdraft services and physical evidence as key drivers of bank ecosystem.

The multilateral development banks cumulatively channel billions of dollars annually in development assistance to borrower countries.

This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the world by both population size and gross domestic product.

A value management framework designed specifically for banking and insurance The Value Management Handbook is a comprehensive, practical reference written specifically for bank and insurance valuation and value management.

Accounting Principles and Practice describes the principles and conventions which provide the structure of Accounting practice.

Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the straight-talking CEO of Virgin Money, looks back at the events that have influenced, shaped and inspired her to become one of the most powerful women in banking.

The size and global reach of the coal industry is unparalleled in the mining sector.

This book examines the regulatory framework, regulatory objectives, regulatory logics, regulatory instruments, regulatory failures, and regulatory responses in China's financial market after the global financial crisis.

International Macroeconomics for Business and Political Leaders explains the fundamentals of international macroeconomics in a very efficient and approachable text.

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb.

It is widely acknowledged that many financial modelling techniques failed during the financial crisis, and in our post-crisis environment many techniques are being reconsidered.

Monetary policy in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries remains an understudied area; this book fills an important gap by examining monetary policy frameworks and monetary policy strategies in the region.

Efficiency and Competition in Chinese Banking gives a comprehensive analysis of the industry, including cost, technical, profit, and revenue efficiency.

At the end of the 20th century, mainstream economics was based on theories which viewed capitalism as a self-regulating system, whereby crises come about due to external shocks and would be automatically corrected by the price mechanism if it was flexible enough.

The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) carry out their mission to alleviate poverty and promote economic growth based on the advice of professional economists.

The increasing capital flows in the emerging markets and developed countries have raised various concerns worldwide.

The development of Islamic banking and finance (IBF) previously centred around three regions of the world: the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

This book analyses how financial elites in key dollar-holding emerging markets perceive the contest between the euro and the dollar for global currency status.

This edition takes into account the very latest advances in electronic banking and treasury security.

Private Equity and Venture Capital in Europe: Markets, Techniques, and Deals, Third Edition introduces private equity, investments and venture capital markets while also presenting new information surrounding the core of private equity, including secondary markets, private debt, PPP within private equity, crowdfunding, venture philanthropy, impact investing, and more.

The first twenty years of the European Central Bank (ECB) offer a clear demonstration of how a central bank can navigate macroeconomic insecurity and crisis.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

This book explains what the internationalization of banking and finance means, and examines its extent and the reasons it has developed.