Banks Banking category: 2128 books
Commercial Banking Risk Management
Regulation in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This edited collection comprehensively addresses the widespread regulatory challenges uncovered and changes introduced in financial markets following the 2007-2008 crisis, suggesting strategies by which financial institutions can comply with stringent new regulations and adapt to the pressures...
The New Lombard Street
How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In today's increasingly global and integrated financial climate, there is an amplified need for cooperation between regulators and supervisors across the globe in order to promote economic growth and maintain competitive markets. However, idiosyncrasies remain within local markets, and for those wishing...
Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions
A Study of their Objectives and Achievements
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book is a study of the objectives of Islamic Finance in the modern banking space and offers insight into the effects of changes and developments occurring in Islamic banking products and services.
Back from the Brink
1000 Days at Number 11
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Alistair Darling's long-awaited book will be one of the most reviewed, widely discussed, and saleable political memoirs of recent years. In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only...
by M.B. Malik
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Double Standards travels 25 years back to explore the story of a bank, with roots in the Middle East, that rose to prominence and became the fastest-growing bank in the world. It was called the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, known as BCCI, and became the 4th largest bank in the world...
Central Banking in a Democracy
The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial...
by Franco Fiordelisi, Paola Schwizer, Alessandro Carretta
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book explores risk culture in banks following the financial crisis. It analyses the role of national and institutional risk culture, market competitiveness, organisational systems and institutional practices that led to a weakening of risk culture in financial institutions leading up to the financial...
New Perspectives on the Bank-Firm Relationship
Lending, Management and the Impact of Basel III
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book analyses the connections between the banking industry in Europe and the companies it finances. Ferretti specifically studies how these bonds have evolved over time and questions whether now is the time for a change in the relationship’s dynamics. Chapters discuss the role of bank lending...
The Business Finance Market
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
The Business Finance Market: A Survey
This is a study of the supply, demand, pricing and marketing of business financial products.
The book looks at key factors determining the growth and performance of business finance suppliers. It examines new products and their sale and distribution...
Optimising Distressed Loan Books
Practical solutions for dealing with non-performing loans
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Dealing with distressed loans is different to other banking activities. Normal bank processes, decision-making structures, management techniques and investment philosophies are geared to making money in buoyant markets. However, these same characteristics mean that in a downturn banks are poorly equipped...
Financial Innovation - with a particular view on the role of banks
with a particular view on the role of banks
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2004
Scientific Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,7 (A-), University of Teesside (Teesside Business School), course: Money and Finance - Economics, language: English, abstract: Financial markets have always undergone changes...
Financial Innovation and Resilience
A Comparative Perspective on the Public Banks of Naples (1462-1808)
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
As Ignazio Visco, Governor of the Bank of Italy, says in his Foreword, all economic policy makers today need to re-examine our history to help them confront the challenges of today. This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved...
Strategies of Banks and Other Financial Institutions
Theories and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
How and why do strategic perspectives of financial institutions differ by class and region? Strategies of Banks and Other Financial Institutions: Theories and Cases is an introduction to global financial institutions that presents both theoretical and actual aspects of markets and institutions. The...