Banking category: 2398 books
The Rise and Development of FinTech (Open Access)
Accounts of Disruption from Sweden and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This comprehensive guide serves to illuminate the rise and development of FinTech in Sweden, with the Internet as the key underlying driver. The multiple case studies examine topics such as: the adoption of online banking in Sweden; the identification and classification of different FinTech categories;...
How the Other Half Banks
Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The United States has two separate banking systems today—one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how...
The New Lombard Street
How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system. Bagehot's book set down the principles that...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014
The original 1987 Norwich seminar Usury: The Root Cause of the Injustices of Our Time, whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect. After the endless analyses and altercations of left and right to which we were accustomed, here was an argument that went to the core of the...
by Iakovos Alhadeff
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
There is a wide spread belief that it was the private banking sector that caused the current economic crisis. “Greedy” private bankers destabilized the economy, as socialists put it. At the same time, there are many conspiracy theories about central banks around. According to these theories, central...
13 Bankers
The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
In spite of its key role in creating the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, the American banking industry has grown bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks whose assets amount to more than 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, this...
The Exchange Artist
A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic
This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid...
Founding a Movement
Women's World Banking, 1975–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Founding a Movement captures the impossible dream realized by a visionary group of women who met in Mexico City at the first United Nations World Conference on Women in 1975, and then, together, created the first global women's microfinance network. Drawing on more than 80 interviews, Michaela Walsh...
Bad Banks
Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Bad Banks is a gripping account of the problems and scandals that continue to bedevil the world's banking system some eight years after the credit crunch.
It follows the fortunes and misfortunes of individual banks, from RBS to Lloyds. It exposes instances of mis-selling, money laundering,...
by David Murphy, Martina Devlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
1929... On Wall Street, during the worst financial crisis the world had ever seen, the word "Banksters" was coined to describe those ruthless individuals who had gambled away the country's wealth.
2009... The phrase "Banksters" is resurrected as David Murphy and Martina Devlin describe the shocking...
by Sheila Lewenhak
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This volume draws together diverse sources of information from the EIB’s own reports and bulletins, as well as reports of the Us Federal Reserve Board, the IMF and OECD, together with press and journal sources to examine the history, borrowing and lending operations from 1958-1980. It also discusses...
One Big Fib
The Incredible Story of the Fraudulent First International Bank of Grenada
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
The First International Bank of Grenada will go down in history as one of the biggest banking swindles of all time. Aided and abetted by a corrupt government, Van Brink and his satraps lured hundreds of innocent investors to place their savings in a bank he claimed "had a vision." With evangelical...
by Burkhard Mr. Drees, Garry Mr. Schinasi, Charles Mr. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2001
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition. With that foundation, the book will then turn...