Banking

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabil...

Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the straight-talking CEO of Virgin Money, looks back at the events that have influenced, shaped and inspired her to become one o...

We are only in the early stages of a broader revolution that will impact every aspect of the global economy, including commerce and government serv...

A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the mortgage-securitization industry, which explains the complex roots of the 2008 financial crisis...

Islamic microfinance is one of the most important sectors of Islamic social finance, which plays a very important role in curbing poverty and impro...

Where did modern banking come fromand how does this history help us understand financial crises?In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropo...

The call for establishing a right to bank holds valid premises, yet this right has never been contemplated before. The book argues that introducing...

The Nine Years War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw ...

Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic? Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded c...

Private Banking gerät von zwei Seiten unter Druck. Auf der einen steht die Finanzaufsicht, die mit immer mehr regulativen Vorgaben zu einer S...

Practical Finance for Property Investment provides readers with an introduction to the most fundamental concepts, principles, analytical methods, a...

This book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessm...

State guarantees commonly function as financial panacea, allowing states to consolidate banking systems and create intergovernmental funds. Rules s...

Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias rejects the notion that credit rating agencies' rigorous and transparent determination of ratings leaves no r...

Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk m...

This book explores the diversity of restructuring instruments applied to financial institutions in EU countries during the Global Financial Crisis....

This book explains how banking institutions in Portugal were able to maintain their strength and solubility while undergoing a demanding Program of...

Project sponsors in Europe are facing more and more difficulty when acquiring conventional long-term bank loans for infrastructure projects. The re...

Based on the crisis experience, the book offers an overview of lessons for macrofinancial analysis and financial stability. It illustrates the inte...

This title provides an integrated risk management framework for Islamic banks. This guide shows students and professionals how to identify, measure...

The business cycle is a complex phenomenon. On the surface, it involves a multitude of mechanisms, such as oscillations in interest rates, prices, ...

An advanced strategic approach using options to reduce market risks while augmenting dividend income, this title moves beyond the basics of stocks ...

Tillmann C. Lauk discusses law-making at the European level and argues that problems with EU legislation, banking regulation and currency debasemen...

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 developmen...

The role of central banks as a hinge on which the financial system rests has returned to the top of the political agenda in recent years. The globa...