Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period.
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues.
This book covers the recent literature concerning Islamic banking and finance (IBF), focuses on the history of IBF since its inception and introduces the latest innovative concepts and practices in the field.
This book covers the recent literature concerning Islamic banking and finance (IBF), focuses on the history of IBF since its inception and introduces the latest innovative concepts and practices in the field.
This book renews the Marxian theory of the general equivalent by highlighting the contradiction between the social functions of money (unit of account, means of circulation) and its private functions (store of value, accumulation).
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues.
This book renews the Marxian theory of the general equivalent by highlighting the contradiction between the social functions of money (unit of account, means of circulation) and its private functions (store of value, accumulation).
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.
Financialization is a set of processes which has led to a financially driven and commodified economy with rising inequality, tax avoidance, and a lack of investment in the physical and social infrastructure.
International Money and Finance, Tenth Edition presents an institutional and historical overview of international finance and international money, illustrating how key economic concepts can illuminate real world problems.
Financial Trading and Investing, Third Edition provides a useful introduction to trading and market microstructure for advanced undergraduate as well as master's students.
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.
An account of the history, structure, and operation of the First and Second Banks of the United States, this study examines how the banks performed as national and central institutions, and what happened to the economy when the charter of the Second Bank was allowed to expire in 1836.
Pour la première fois, avec cet ouvrage, le monopole monétaire des banques et les déséquilibres qu’il engendre sont analysés et dénoncés : amplification des effets cycliques et de l’instabilité financière, concentration de la richesse, dévaluation du capital social, pensée économique réflexe et mimétique privilégiant le court terme, etc.
With the passage of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act and the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act in 1994, some Americans celebrated the dawn of a new banking era.
The financial crises that began unexpectedly in Southeast Asia in 1997 spread rapidly around the globe, causing banks to fail, stock markets to plummet, and other newsmaking disruptions.
Up-to-date guidance for conducting a successful M&A for banks and financial institutionsThe simmering economic climate since the financial crisis faces a front of new competition and sweeping regulatory reforms expected to drive the U.
Insider guidance to the modern world of investment banking todayIn Investment Banking Explained, Wharton professor and globalfinancier Michel Fleuriet provides a complete overview ofinvestment banking in its modern form; defines key terms; identifiesstructures, strategies, and operational aspects; and analyzesthe strategy in each of the main functional areas of aninvestment bank.
Basel II is a global regulation, and financial institutions must prove minimum compliance by 2008The authors are highly sought-after speakers and among the world s most recognized authorities on Basel II implementationAccompanying CD-ROM includes spreadsheet templates that will assist corporations as they implement Basel II
Credit Risk Management is a comprehensive textbook that looks at the total integrated process for managing credit risk, ranging from the risk assessment of a single obligor to the risk measurement of an entire portfolio.
Under the new Basle Guidelines, all financial institutions subject to local banking laws will soon be required to operate under dramatically different risk exposure rules.
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNew York Timesfinance editor David Enrich'sexplosive expos of the most scandalous bank in the world, revealing its shadowy ties to Donald Trump, Putin's Russia, and Nazi GermanyA jaw-dropping financial thrillerPhiladelphia InquirerOn a rainy Sunday in 2014, a senior executive at Deutsche Bank was found hanging in his London apartment.
Risk Management introduces and explores the latest financial and hedging techniques in use around the world, and provides the foundation for creating an integrated, consistent, and effective risk management strategy.
The Teller's Handbook shows all front-line banking personnel how to handle customer questions,process every type of request, effectively cross-sell today's financial products, and more!
The disturbing, untold story of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, Citigroupone of the "e; too big to fail"e; banksfrom its founding in 1812 to its role in the 2008 financial crisis, and the many disasters in between.
Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises delivers a consistent, logical presentation of bank liquidity creation and addresses questions of research and policy interest that can be easily understood by readers with no advanced or specialized industry knowledge.
Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Jesse Eisinger, ';a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange CommissionIt is a book of superheroes' (San Francisco Review of Books).
Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank.
An in-depth look at the history, leadership, and structure of the Federal Reserve BankThe independence of the Federal Reserve is considered a cornerstone of its identity, crucial for keeping monetary policy decisions free of electoral politics.
A fully expanded edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's classic bookThis collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics.
An essential account of the historic subprime mortgage crisis, from the Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author of Irrational ExuberanceThe subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.
A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuriesCommercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions.
