Credit and credit institutions

Originally published in 1994, Stock Exchange Automation addresses the pivotal role played by capital markets in the market economics.

Originally published in 1996, The International Guide to Securities Market Indices provides a comprehensive overview of the securities market indices and offers assistance to professionals as well as individual investors in the selection of an appropriate securities market index, on a worldwide basis.

The mid-20th century saw a significant expansion in the purchase of consumer goods and in the use of credit.

Drawing on wide-ranging contributions from prominent international experts and discussing some of the most pressing issues facing policy makers and practitioners in the field of payment systems today, this volume provides cutting-edge perspectives on the current issues surrounding payment systems and their future.

This book explains how a proper credit risk management framework enables banks to identify, assess and manage the risk proactively.

Microcredit programmes, long considered efficient development tools, now face unprecedented crises in a number of countries.

The current economic climate is dim for many Americans it forecasts potential recession, trouble for homeowners, and increasing personal and credit card debt.

A comparative analysis of the growth and regulation of shadow banking activities by large banks in Western Europe and the US.

Financial Economics and Econometrics provides an overview of the core topics in theoretical and empirical finance, with an emphasis on applications and interpreting results.

While residential real estate lending has gone soft, commercial lending is hot with a wave of low interest rates and refinancing and it shows no sign of slowing down.

Originally published in 1979, Inside the City looks at The City of London as one of the important financial centres in the world.

This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France.

Many years on after the 2007-8 financial crisis, most developed nations still find themselves in a state of weak recovery, high debt pile-up and distributive disparity.

The implementation of new technologies is expected to boost the development of Islamic Finance by increasing accessibility to banking and other financial services in Islamic communities and democratizing access to investment opportunities.

This book showcases recent academic work on contemporary issues in financial institutions and markets.

In its pursuit to equip the reader with a basic knowledge of Islamic economics, this book divulges the micro-foundations of the discipline, and highlights the predominant schools of thought that exist in the field.

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

Don't get down, get started instead-with Fresh Start Bankruptcy Well over a million Americans suffer the trauma of bankruptcy every year.

One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the Panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of the past.

Managing Reputational Risk shows how any organisation can apply simple risk management principles to build stakeholder confidence and safeguard and enhance reputation.

Mortgage markets are more than simply the means by which real estate transactions are financed; they are a key indicator of the level of development of a country's entire economy, in which banks are able to manage the associated risk, and where governments use them to promote their social and economic policies.

One striking weaknesses of our financial architecture, which helped bring on and perhaps deepen the Panic of 2008, is an inadequate appreciation of the past.

The bond market is a key securities market and emerging economies present exciting, new investment opportunities.

Higher education rates are increasing throughout the Western world, yet at the same time, government budgets face increasing constraints.

The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of policy makers, market participants and researchers in the area of financial markets.

The Federal Reserve System has been widely criticised for its response (or lack of response) to the economic and financial problems of 1928-1933.

Financial Economics and Econometrics provides an overview of the core topics in theoretical and empirical finance, with an emphasis on applications and interpreting results.

This book examines the credit needs and the borrowing behaviour of rural households in China in recent years.

This innovative text offers an introduction to money, banking, and financial markets, with a special emphasis on the importance of confidence and trust in the macroeconomic system.

Synthetic finance revolutionizes materialism such that we can now create wealth in the process of universally distributing it.

Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts.

This book delves into the essential concepts and technologies of acquiring systems.

With Cutler Dawson at the helm for the last fourteen years, Navy Federal Credit Union, the world's largest credit union, has quadrupled the size of the organization and made it an industry leader in customer service.

The book introduces how we can manage currency options with the Vanna-Volga method.

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.

Originally published in 1992, Capital Mobilization and Regional Financial Markets, argues that barriers to financial flows within regions may be as important in affecting capital flows as interregional barriers.

The aim of this book is to bring academic work on contemporary issues in financial institutions and markets.

While there is a vast amount of literature examining firm's networks from an industrial organization perspective, the financial implications of networking remain underexplored.

First published in 1982, Bond Duration and Immunization is a collection of seminal papers featuring articles from high profile academics such as Frederick McCaulay, John Hicks, and F.

Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers.

Given the significant changes in the banking environment and the resultant pressures on banks to change their systems and procedures, this book is a timely reference that provides a comprehensive analytical overview of changes in the performance measurement system (PMS) of banks in the post-financial crisis era.

In today's increasingly competitive financial world, successful risk management, portfolio management, and financial structuring demand more than up-to-date financial know-how.

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

The aftermath of the 2008 crisis has substantially increased the regulation of banks and insurance companies and curtailed their risk taking, which has shifted much of the risk to their clients: firms and consumers.

While residential real estate lending has gone soft, commercial lending is hot with a wave of low interest rates and refinancing and it shows no sign of slowing down.

The Financial Crisis was a cross-sector crisis that fundamentally affected modern society.

The idea that each country should have one currency is so deeply rooted in people's minds that the possibility of multiple and concurrent currencies seems unthinkable.

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.

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.

This book focuses on the importance for China to correct the present imbalance in the relationship between the financial sector and the real economy.