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by Boris Agranovich
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
Learn the fundamental skills of how to become a successful Risk Management Professional. The book delivers fundamentals of Risk Management in banks – overview of the principles, processes, and frameworks of Risk Management.
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • With a new introduction by the author
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by Iakovos Alhadeff
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
There is a wide spread belief that it was the private banking sector that caused the current economic crisis. “Greedy” private bankers destabilized the economy, as socialists put it. At the same time, there are many conspiracy theories about central banks around. According to these theories, central...
Lombard Street
A Description of the Money Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Financial observer and journalist Walter Bagehot sheds light on the world of banking in his influential tract
Written in response to a nineteenth-century banking crisis in England, Walter Bagehot’s influential treatise was one of the first to clearly explain complex financial systems like...
Bank 4.0
Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
The future of banking is already here — are you ready?
Bank 4.0 explores the radical transformation already taking place in banking, and follows it to its logical conclusion. What will banking look like in 30 years? 50 years? The world’s best banks have been forced to adapt to changing...
The Seven Sins of Wall Street
Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing-and should make us not just afraid but very afraid-are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry...
by David P. Stowell
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
The dynamic environment of investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms comes to life in David Stowell’s introduction to the ways they challenge and sustain each other. Capturing their reshaped business plans in the wake of the 2007-2009 global meltdown, his book reveals their key functions,...
by William D. Cohan
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible—albeit flawed—engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us
Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial crisis...
The Bankers
How the Banks Brought Ireland to Its Knees
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
As recently as 2007, the Irish economy was still booming and the state coffers overflowing; by the end of 2008, the state faces an unprecedented crisis. The story of the Irish banking collapse is a tawdry tale of collusion, back-scratching and denial among bankers, developers, regulators and politicians.
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Bank of Dave
How I Took On the Banks
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The global financial system is in crisis, bankers are in disrepute and Britain is on the brink of a double-dip recession. Now one man, fed up with never-ending tales of greed and corruption, sets out to prove that there is a different way of doing things - by opening his own bank to help inject much-needed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1991
Central Banks should enjoy a fair degree of autonomy in pursuing price stability to promote long-run growth and prosperity. This volume, edited by Patrick Downes and Reza Vaez-Zadeh, contains the papers presented at the fifth IMF seminar on central banking issues in November 1990. The theme was the interdependence of central bank functions and the role of central bank autonomy.
Ireland
Lessons from Its Recovery from the Bank-Sovereign Loop
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Ireland’s major property bubble burst at the same time as the global financial crisis erupted, plunging the country into a severe recession in 2008–10. Public debt climbed rapidly as revenues collapsed and as banks’ rising loan losses increasingly required public support. Following the Greek crisis...
Rating Based Modeling of Credit Risk
Theory and Application of Migration Matrices
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
In the last decade rating-based models have become very popular in credit risk management. These systems use the rating of a company as the decisive variable to evaluate the default risk of a bond or loan. The popularity is due to the straightforwardness of the approach, and to the upcoming new capital...
Stress Testing and Risk Integration in Banks
A Statistical Framework and Practical Software Guide (in Matlab and R)
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Stress Testing and Risk Integration in Banks provides a comprehensive view of the risk management activity by means of the stress testing process. An introduction to multivariate time series modeling paves the way to scenario analysis in order to assess a bank resilience against adverse macroeconomic...