Finance

Throughout history, innovators have disrupted existing financial services norms to change the landscape of the marketplace. Disruptive Fintech brie...

Consumers are increasingly turning for help to financial planners--individuals who help clients meet their financial goals by providing assistance ...

A reverse mortgage is a special type of home loan for older homeowners that requires no monthly mortgage payments. Borrowers are still responsible ...

This book assesses the financial literacy of retail investors in the United States. Literacy involves the ability and confidence to effectively ap...

Business Valuation and Federal Taxes Procedure, Law, and Perspective SECOND EDITION Combining the expert knowledge of Senior Judge David Laro and ...

On 31 October 2011, MF Global, a large brokerage firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a broker-dealer and with the ...

This book is an attempt to give a global explanation to the global crisis that the Western world has been experiencing since 2007. The crisis was e...

This book provides an overview of select elements and considerations of retirement savings and security with a focus on Social Security financing a...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides benefits to insured workers with disabilities under the full retirement age and their ...

The ongoing global financial crisis, coupled with the continued dramatic increases in life expectancy, have escalated the concerns countries have r...

Consumers may obtain health insurance from a variety of public and private sources, which can help protect them from the costs associated with obta...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continued to make progress in addressing information security control weaknesses and improving its internal cont...

The United States has played an active role in helping to reform financial regulations to address weaknesses revealed by the 2007-2009 financial cr...

The vast volume of financial data that exists and the globalisation of financial markets create new challenges for researchers and practitioners in...

Research in economics is increasingly open to empirical results. The advances in behavioural approaches are expanded here by applying cognitive met...

This book examines the Federal Trade Commissions'' (FTCs) study on the accuracy and completeness of consumer credit reports. The FTC contracted a r...

Hedge funds were used to hedge or protect against loss due to market uncertainties. The business of hedge funds began to bear fruits in the mid-1...

An important component of economic statecraft, investment climate statements provide U.S. firms with country-specific information and assessments p...

Recently, debates about the economics of debt have been dominated by issues related to the global financial crisis. In this edited volume, the rela...

The Great Recession and the ensuing weak recovery have led the Federal Reserve (Fed) to re-evaluate its monetary policy. Since December 2008, ove...

During the 2007-2009 financial crisis, many U.S. and international financial institutions lacked capital of sufficient quality and quantity to abso...

Liquidity refers to the degree to which an asset or security can be bought or sold in the market without affecting the asset''s price. This book pr...

'A brilliantly readable account, based on exceptional access, of the transformation of the old Quaker bank into a hard-charging capitalist advent...