Banking category: 2398 books

This book, FinTech Rising aims to be an introduction to both Financial services generally and more specifically to Financial technology (FinTech). The book explores the financial Services environment, the booms and crashes, before FinTech's provenance and how it has come to prominence and why it is...

Business Knowledge for IT in Insurance is targeted at IT professionals that need buisness knowledge of the insurance sector of the financial services industry

The European payment market has undergone rapid transformation in recent years due to changes in payment habits, new business rules and new legal frameworks and regulation. There has also been an advent of new technologies and payment solutions which has altered the European payments landscape drastically. This...

The book aims to give non-economists a detailed understanding of how macroeconomic policy works in modern economies, and the issues it faces. The world has recently been through a huge economic crisis and thinking people everywhere have reason to wonder whether something is not seriously wrong with...

This volume--the fifth in a series of histories of the International Monetary Fund--examines the 1990s, a tumultuous decade in which the IMF faced difficult challenges and took on new and expanded roles. Among these were assisting countries that had long operated under central planning to manage transitions...

This paper is concerned with developments in the European Monetary System (EMS) from its start in March 1979 through December 1982.

Fiscal discipline is essential to improve and sustain economic performance, maintain macroeconomic stability, and reduce vulnerabilities. Discipline is especially important if countries, industrial as well as developing, are to successfully meet the challenges, and reap the benefits, of economic and...

Managementprognosen sind ebenso wie die Schätzungen von Finanzanalysten eine wesentliche Informationsquelle beim Kapitalallokationsprozess von Investoren. Allerdings sind sowohl Unternehmen als auch Analysten in ein verzweigtes Geflecht von Interessenkonflikten eingebettet, die eine unverzerrte Informationsvermittlung...

The financial services quarter has been a straggler in implementing lean tools and exercises, possibly for the reason that of their industrializing origins. But those approaches are slowly altering. As more banks find out the paybacks of lean processes such as minor costs, lesser errors, quicker cycle...

Aging populations. Weather shocks. Scarce water. Globalization. Security threats. Policymakers today confront a number of developments that threaten to burden public budgets for decades to come, or bankrupt some entirely. This book argues that governments need to make policy changes now to take account...

Bank bailouts in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the Great Recession brought into sharp relief the power that the global financial sector holds over national politics, and provoked widespread public outrage. In The Power of Inaction, Cornelia Woll details the varying...