Banking category: 2398 books
The FitzPatrick Tapes
The Rise and Fall of One Man, One Bank, and One Country
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
The FitzPatrick Tapes: The sensational story of the man and the bank that brought Ireland low
One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick - the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank - sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business...
Wriston
Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise and Fall of American Financial Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Wriston is the definitive, inside story of the man who transformed Citibank into a global banking powerhouse—and led it to the edge of the abyss.
The House of Rothschild
Volume 2: The World's Banker: 1849-1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
A major work of economic, social and political history, Niall Ferguson's The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1999 is the second volume of the acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty.
Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848...
by Mark Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
How Excessive Risk Destroyed Lehman and Nearly Brought Down the Financial Industry
“Uncontrolled Risk will ruffle feathers—and for good reason—as voters and legislators learn the diffi cult lessons of Lehman’s collapse and demand that we never forget them.”
Dr. David C. Shimko, Board...
Chasing Goldman Sachs
How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?
Suzanne McGee provides...
The Spider Network
How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Wall Street Journal**'s award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the...
by Benedicte Ms. Christensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1986
This paper was prepared by Benedicte Vibe Christensen in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund under the direction of Gyorgy Szapary. It describes developments in international financial transactions conducted through the Swiss banking system until December 1985.
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S. wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.
Straight to Hell
True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The hilarious New York Times bestseller “sharply observes the lives of globe-trotting, overindulging investment bankers” (Entertainment Weekly).
“Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I’d wonder where the rest of my money went.” —@GSElevator
For three...
Shortfall
Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sales track record: Her book Scars of Sweet Paradise sold over 11,000 copies.
Media track record: Echols’ previous books have received national review attention in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, People, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Elle, and many other publications....
by Timothy Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The former Fannie Mae CFO's inside look at the war between the financial giants and government regulators
A provocative true-life thriller about the all-out fight for dominance of the mortgage industry—and how it nearly destroyed the global financial system
Many books have been written about...
by Frédérik Arns, Franklin Schram
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: A+, University of Westminster, course: Financial Derivatives, 47 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The increased volatility in the financial products...
The City
London and the Global Power of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really works
The City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial...
by Mark Singer
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
From esteemed New Yorker writer Mark Singer comes this cautionary tale of the Penn Square Bank, the oil and gas broker in an Oklahoma City shopping mall whose collapse in 1982 staggered America’s banking industry. Recounting the whole spectacular story and its colorful characters, Singer makes brilliantly...