Banking, Money and International Finance
Financial Integration in the European Monetary Union
1st Edition
By Sławomir Ireneusz Bukowski
June 30, 2021
This book introduces readers to the world of international financial markets and their integration on a global and regional scale. The author presents the theoretical and practical issues concerning the processes of financial market integration, with a particular focus on the monetary union. The ...
The Regulation of Financial Planning in Australia: Current Practice, Issues and Empirical Analysis
1st Edition
By Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the legitimacy of the current Australian Financial Services Licensee-Authorised Representative (AFSL-AR) licensing model, as specified in the Commonwealth Corporations Act 2001.The book rectifies the deficiency in scholarly attention to this matter by developing a new ...
The Economics of Financial Cooperatives: Income Distribution, Political Economy and Regulation
1st Edition
By Amr Khafagy
April 01, 2021
Building on theories of finance and distribution, and the political economy of finance, this book explains the influence of financial cooperatives on wealth and income distribution, and institutional factors that determine the development of financial cooperatives. The book discusses the dynamics ...
Financial Risk Management in Banking: Evidence from Asia Pacific
1st Edition
By Shahsuzan Zakaria, Sardar Islam
March 31, 2021
As risk-taking is an essential part of the banking industry, banks must practise efficient risk management to ensure survival in uncertain financial climates. Banking operations are specifically affected by fluctuations in interest rates which cause financial imbalance; thus banks are now required ...
A Comparative History of Bank Failures: From Medici to Barings
1st Edition
By Sten Jonsson
December 18, 2020
Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of how a number of banks failed over a 500 year-period. The author offers an explanation of the leading ideas about the world and good society at the time,...
Equity Home Bias in International Finance: A Place-Attachment Perspective
1st Edition
By Kavous Ardalan
December 18, 2020
This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of research outcomes on the equity home bias puzzle – that people overinvest in domestic stocks relative to the theoretically optimal investment portfolio. It introduces place attachment – the bonding that occurs between individuals and their...
Expert Systems in Finance: Smart Financial Applications in Big Data Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Noura Metawa, Mohamed Elhoseny, Aboul Ella Hassanien, M. Kabir Hassan
December 18, 2020
Throughout the industry, financial institutions seek to eliminate cumbersome authentication methods, such as PINs, passwords, and security questions, as these antiquated tactics prove increasingly weak. Thus, many organizations now aim to implement emerging technologies in an effort to validate ...
French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong: From the 1850s to 1980s
1st Edition
By Hubert Bonin
December 18, 2020
Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very few books have explored French initiatives and performance in this area, beyond diplomacy, geopolitics or cultural issues. In this book, Hubert Bonin ...
Frontier Capital Markets and Investment Banking: Principles and Practice from Nigeria
1st Edition
By Temitope W. Oshikoya, Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti
December 18, 2020
This book discusses the role of capital markets and investment banking in Nigeria, the largest frontier market economy in the world by both population size and gross domestic product.Offering a systematic framework combining conceptual principles with real practice, the book enables the reader to ...
Asian Imperial Banking History
1st Edition
By Hubert Bonin
September 30, 2020
When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using primary sources in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. The book as a whole provides new insights into banking in ...
Financial Innovation, Regulation and Crises in History
1st Edition
By Harold James
September 30, 2020
With contributions from world-renowned figures such as Niall Ferguson and Adair Turner, this volume investigates how financial institutions and markets have undergone or reacted to past pressures, and the regulatory responses that emerged as a result....
Price and Financial Stability: Rethinking Financial Markets
1st Edition
By David Harrison
August 14, 2020
Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services produced and exchanged, financial prices attempt to value future income flows from financial and ...