Banks Banking category: 2128 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...
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.
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...
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...
Blockchain: A Guide To Blockchain, The Technology Behind Bitcoin, Ethereum And Other Cryptocurrency
Blockchain, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A blockchain is a digitized, decentralized, public ledger of all cryptocurrency transactions. Constantly growing as ‘completed’ blocks, the most recent transactions are recorded and added to it in chronological order, it allows market participants to keep track of digital currency transactions...
by Jeffrey Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of The Laundrymen, first brought to the world's attention the problems of dirty money -- revealing how otherwise legitimate lawyers, bankers, accountants and even governments were helping drug traffickers hide the proceeds of their crimes -- he labelled...
by William R. Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
A short nonfiction book about the origins of money and The Federal Reserve System and its part in WWI, The Great Depression, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and both Gulf Wars, as well as the income tax, national debt, inflation, fractional reserve banking, recessions, and the financial collapse of 2008.