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Modern Islamic Banking
Products and Processes in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A complete, detailed guide to modern Islamic banking fundamentals
Modern Islamic Bankingprovides a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to the products, processes and legal doctrines underlying Islamic banking. Written by a pioneering practitioner in the field, this book provides thorough...
by Cristina Trullols
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
As a result of the recent financial crisis, new ways of doing finance have developed, creating alternatives to the regular financial system. This book explores non-conventional banking and financing mechanisms in detail, with case studies and examples in which these alternative methods have succeeded.
The Devil's Derivatives
The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . an
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A compelling narrative on what went wrong with our financial system-and who’s to blame.
From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for more than a decade, The Devil’s Derivatives charts the untold story of modern financial innovation-how investment banks invented...
by Michael E. Lewitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This chapter from The Death of Capital is a call for change that discusses projects and initiatives to rejuvenate the economy and provide a basis for sustained growth. We have developed a regulatory system that does exactly the opposite of what it should be doing-favors speculation over production;...
Financing the Future
Market-Based Innovations for Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Financial innovation can drive social, economic, and environmental change, transforming ideas into new technologies, industries, and jobs. But when it is misunderstood or mismanaged, the consequences can be severe. In this practical, accessible book, two leading experts explain how sophisticated capital...
by Dave Donelson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Inadequate funding causes most business failures. Good financial management will not only keep your company afloat, but enable it to grow and prosper.
“Plan For Success” gives you a blueprint for a sound financial plan for your company. It’s more than just numbers—a good business plan...
by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1986
More Money, Please
The Financial Secrets You Never Learned in School
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Personal finance 101—without the homework or quizzes
Most of us graduate high school with a basic understanding of history, math, science, and literature, but when it comes to personal finance—arguably the topic that we use most in our daily lives—we feel lost or overwhelmed. No longer!...
Deal with Your Debt
Free Yourself from What You Owe, Updated and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Struggling with debt? Get realistic help that's actually useful, from Liz Weston, one of the most popular and respected personal finance experts! Today, people struggling with debt have far fewer options: lenders are stingier, which makes it harder to avert disaster, or to recover from setbacks like...
by Liz Weston
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Today, people struggling with debt have far fewer options: lenders are stingier, which makes it harder to avert disaster, or to recover from setbacks like foreclosure, short sales, or bankruptcy. (Meanwhile, people with good credit have more options than ever, including some of the lowest interest rates...
Taxation and Gender Equity
A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Around the world, there are concerns that many tax codes are biased against women, and that contemporary tax reforms tend to increase the incidence of taxation on the poorest women while failing to generate enough revenue to fund the programs needed to improve these women’s lives. Because taxes...
Hungry Capital
The Financialization of Food
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Over the past thirty years, the ability of global finance to affect aspects of everyday life has been increasing at an unprecedented rate. The world of food bears vivid testimony to this tendency, through the scars opened by the 2008 world food price crisis, the iron fist of retailing giants that occupy...
Make more money
Secrets from the world's greatest finance classics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Make more money brings together some of the greatest ideas on wealth and finance from four classic books. Karen McCreadie, Tim Phillips and Steve Shipside bring together the key concepts from their interpretations of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, Benjamin Franklin's The Way to Wealth, George...
Good Derivatives
A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Through the eyes of an inventor of new markets, Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation tells the story of how financial innovation – a concept that is misunderstood and under attack - has been a positive force in the last four decades. If properly designed and regulated,...