Banking category: 2398 books
Stagecoach
Wells Fargo and the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. Fradkin.
The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold...
Octopus
Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for a “secret market” beneath the financial market we all know.
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Sam Israel was a man who seemed to have it all – until the hedge...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Insurance terminology and risk management.
Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of potential financial loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a potential loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium and duty of care.
Saving the Sun
Japan's Financial Crisis and a Wall Stre
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Saving the Sun tells the story of the world's largest private equity deal where American investors made billions of dollars rehabilitating Shinsei, a failed Japanese bank. Within that business saga is the dramatic tale of Japan's brightest financial minds, the men who made the Japanese economic miracle...
The Subprime Solution
How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins of this crisis and puts forward bold measures...
by Jeffrey Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
"Jeffrey Robinson has written what nearly amounts to a textbook on the transformation of ill-gotten gains into seemingly legal currency." USA Today"An indictment of governments and banks that are unwilling to deal decisively with an industry that handles $200-$500 billion a year." Business...
Bank 2.0
How customer behaviour and technology will change the future of financial services
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
BANK 2.0 reveals why customer behaviour is so rapidly changing, how branches will evolve, why cheques are disappearing, and why your mobile phone will replace your wallet—all within the next 10 years.
The Partnership
The Making of Goldman Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The inside story of one of the world?s most powerful financial Institutions
Now with a new foreword and final chapter, The Partnership chronicles the most important periods in Goldman Sachs?s history and the individuals who built one of the world?s largest investment banks. Charles D. Ellis,...
Secrecy World
Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.
A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from...
Crash of the Titans
Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon
With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that...
House of Cards
A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis.
At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After...
by Christopher Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
In recent years, the financial system has been upended. People are no longer confident in the financial markets or in their ability to accumulate and save money. Bills pile up as incomes plummet, all while people seek a financial lifeline. Enter Bitcoin. Recently created as an alternative currency...
The Silo Effect
The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Award-winning journalist Gillian Tett “applies her anthropologist’s lens to the problem of why so many organizations still suffer from a failure to communicate. It’s a profound idea, richly analyzed” (The Wall Street Journal), about how our tendency to create functional departments—silos—hinders...
by Shyamala Nemana
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This is a Summer Training report for MBA students for refernce and study.