Banking category: 2398 books

Six years after the financial crisis, investment bankers remain villains in the public mind. But as Economist editor Andrew Palmer reveals in Smart Money, this vilified industry is capable of doing great good for society. In this sweeping account of the history, present, and future of financial innovation,...

What monetary system best serves society? The current system of pure government fiat monies, managed by discretionary central banks, is inefficient and unstable. Monetary Alternatives explores fundamental and controversial ideas that move our monetary system and economy beyond repeated crises to sustainable...

It s a new jungle out there. Are you prepared to rock your business? Or will you be rolled? The world has changed. Leadership is not top-down. Not anymore. Today we live in a seamlessly integrated world where technology, business, entertainment and life overlap and merge. Positives can go negative...

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they...

This book, written by A. Premchand, offers a comprehensive review of fiscal policies and their implications for budgeting and expenditure controls. It provides an in-depth discussion of techniques, procedures, and processes of budgeting with illustrative material drawn from the experiences of industrial and developing countries.

This book examines the theory and practice of performance budgeting, which aims to link the funding of government agencies to the results they deliver to improve the efficiency of public spending. In a combination of thematic studies and case studies, it clearly presents the diverse range of contemporary...

Fiscal policy seeks to equilibrate the public sector's financing needs with the private sector's demand for investment and a sustainable balance of payments. Correct measurement of the public sector's net use of resources is therefore an important prerequisite for managing the macroeconomy. This volume,...

Many financial institutions have in recent years failed – failed either completely, and gone into bankruptcy, or failed in the sense that they have not achieved what their owners or their customers expected them to deliver. This has had significant and adverse effects on customers, taxpayers, shareholders,...

This book, by A. Premchand, a former Assistant Director of IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, provides a comprehensive discussion of the expenditure process in public authorities from a management perspective. It covers the various aspects, ranging from budget formulation to the courteous delivery of services...

Dieser Band der "Edition Bankmagazin" ist ein praxisorientierter Leitfaden zum Nachhaltigkeitsreporting in Finanzdienstleistungsunternehmen. Schwerpunkte des Werks sind die Bedeutung eines unternehmerischen Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements als Grundlage belastbarer Kommunikation, die Besonderheiten...

The 2008 financial crisis-like the Great Depression-was a world-historical event. What caused it will be debated for years, if not generations. The conventional narrative is that the financial crisis was caused by Wall Street greed and insufficient regulation of the financial system. That narrative produced...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Börse, Versicherung, Note: 1,3, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Hochschulstudienzentrum Hamburg (Unternehmensführung im Mittelstand), 30 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ungenügende...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich BWL - Bank, Börse, Versicherung, Note: 1,7, Universität zu Köln, Veranstaltung: Anlagestrategien und Performance Institutioneller Anleger, 25 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Investmentfonds als institutionelle Investoren...

The threat landscape is developing at such a rate that traditional IT security controls can no longer protect us. Legacy IT security mechanisms deal with rules and signatures for known threats coming from the outside. But today the threats are coming from inside. The risks are from malicious employees,...