Credit and credit institutions

This book, first published in 1985, is a study of the functioning of one sector of American capital markets - non-reserve city national banks - between 1870 and 1900.

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context.

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world.

Predicting foreign exchange rates has presented a long-standing challenge for economists.

An institutional investor's guide to the burgeoning field of reverse mortgage securitization Reverse Mortgages and Linked Securities is a contributed title comprising many of the leading minds in the Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECM) industry, including reverse mortgage lenders, institutional investors, underwriters, attorneys, and regulators.

The Crypto Market Ecosystem has emerged as the most profound application of blockchain technology in finance.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake.

This book is a research monograph addressed to a wide range of academics interested in corporate short-term capital.

Following the recent global financial crisis there is a growing interest in alternative finance - and microfinance in particular - as new instruments for providing financial services in a socially responsible way or as an alternative to traditional banking.

This book, first published in 1949, is the original and key survey of the stages which preceded the use of coins as the medium of exchange, and of the objects that coins displaced, objects which for want of a better name are here called primitive money.

The Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Asia's financial institutions, markets, and systems.

Due to the absence of due process and other procedural guarantees generally offered by judicial enforcement, informal debt collection practices (IDCPs) can become abusive, harming both consumers and the economy by threatening consumers' physical, psychological, and economic wellbeing; exposing lawabiding debt collectors to unfair competition; undermining the financial system; and negatively impacting social peace by resorting to criminal activity.

Formal financial systems are emerging rapidly in Africa, driven by rising financial literacy and technological innovation, and accelerated by informal savings groups that foster inclusive growth across the continent.

Land reform has been the most challenging social issue for China, which is in transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized country.

This master''s-level introduction to mainstream credit risk modelling balances rigorous theory with real-world, post-credit crisis examples.

This book presents a set of conversations with five former Governors of Reserve Bank of India (from 1992 onwards) on the topic of financial inclusion.

This is a much-needed work in the financial literature, and it is the first book ever to analyse the use of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from a theoretical and practical perspective.

This book investigates the legitimacy of the current Australian Financial Services Licensee-Authorised Representative (AFSL-AR) licensing model, as specified in the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001.

The Credit Scoring Toolkit provides an all-encompassing view of the use of statistical models to assess retail credit risk and provide automated decisions.

Into the Red explores the emergence of a credit card market in post-Soviet Russia during the formative period from 1988 to 2007.

Financial stability is one of the key tenets of a central bank's functions.

Cryptocurrencies have had a profound effect on financial markets worldwide.

Too many of the world's citizens face impoverished living standards.

Credit derivatives as a financial tool has been growing exponentially from almost nothing more than seven years ago to approximately US$5 trillion deals completed by end of 2005.

Manage and repair your credit Credit card debt is the third largest source of household indebtedness.

Sustainable development is a major challenge of our times.

Credit rating agencies play a critical role in capital markets, guiding the asset allocation of institutional investors as private capital moves freely around the world in search of the best trade-off between risk and return.

The biggest corporate failure ever in British history occurred in 2008 with very little forewarning.

This inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging study unravels the social processes of decision-making at the interface of central banks and financial market participants, and thereby raises important questions about responsible central bank governance and its obligations to stakeholders in society.

Already in just a decade of existence, cryptocurrencies have been the world's best-performing financial asset, outperforming stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies.

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women''s empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

The alternative financing space has grown exponentially in the last few decades, namely as a consequence of the financial crisis, technological advancement, niche customer segments, and more recently the pandemic.

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge.

Accounting and Debt Markets: Four Pieces on the Role of Accounting Information in Debt Markets provides novel and up-to-date evidence on the role of accounting information in debt markets Companies and organisations worldwide rely heavily on debt markets for short, medium and long-term financing, and debt markets and financial intermediaries have significant effects on the real economy.

This book examines four aspects of Malaysian consumers' financial vulnerabilities.

Credit risk is one of the most important contemporary problems for banks and insurance companies.

This book is an introduction text to distress risk and corporate failure modelling techniques.

In Mortgage Myths, Realtor Ralph Roberts and mortgage consultant Chip Cummings take aim at the 77 mortgage myths that prevent so many would-be homeowners and real estate investors from pursuing their dreams of homeownership.

Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England.

This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened.

Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime.

This book, first published in 1921, is intended to serve as an introduction to the study of the historical background of modern industrial and social questions.

The field of consumer credit law has undergone major and fundamental change in the recent past, due in part to the regulation since 1 April 2014 of consumer credit by the Financial Conduct Authority, and this book provides a clear and complete guide to this difficult area of law.

A better development and implementation framework for credit risk scorecards Intelligent Credit Scoring presents a business-oriented process for the development and implementation of risk prediction scorecards.

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

Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States.

This book, first published in 1993, examines in detail the bureaucratic and political manoeuvring surrounding the enactment of banking and monetary reforms in the 1930s.