Finance and Accounting

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve t...

The recent financial crisis and the rapid changes in the economic and technological environment have highlighted the need for further reinforcement...

The 114th Congress is considering legislation to provide regulatory relief for banks. The need for such relief, some argue, results from the increa...

During the upheavals of 20079, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bag...

Financial Mathematics for Actuaries is a textbook for students in actuarial science, quantitative finance, financial engineering and quantitative r...

Cut risk and generate profit even after the market drops The Second Leg Down offers practical approaches to profiting after a market event. Written...

Over the last decade or so, firms in the financial services industry witnessed fundamental changes in their operating environment, such as deregula...

In 1933, during the first 100 days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt''''s New Deal, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA) we...

Between January 2008 and December 2011, a period of economic downturn in the United States, 414 insured U.S. banks failed. Of these, 85 percent or ...

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of finance and banking research. Each article has been carefully selected in an at...

Community banks ... generally small and locally focused institutions ... are important sources of credit to small businesses. Since the 2007 ... 20...

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 fastes...

Probably no issue during the most recent financial crisis aroused more passion than financial institution bailouts. Focusing on the policymaking be...

This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to bank...

Written by a group of prominent shari''ah scholars, academics and practitioners in the field of Islamic finance, this book contains 17 in-depth cas...

The Money Man is an epic story for our times, which will offer hope to many who have seen the fruit of their hard work eaten away by the economy, m...

The collapse of the international banking & fiat currency system is inevitable. This aide memoire is to give the interested layman an insight i...