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This beautifully illustrated book tells the rich and colorful story of banking from its early development amongst the merchant communities of medieval Italy, through to its full maturity as a "universal business" in the highly competitive global markets of today - a highly readable history, scholarly but stylish.
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"This text explains how this model of financial intermediation works, what it offers and how Islamic bank performance compares with that of conventional banks. Will Islamic banks survive in highly competitive and globalized financial markets? What are their prospects and potentials? The text aims to provide objective answers to these and similar questions. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to know about the features, participants and practices...
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"This second edition of the ground-breaking Ethics in Finance is an up-to-date, valuable addition to the emerging field of finance ethics. Citing examples of the scandals that have shaken public confidence in Wall Street, John R. Boatright explains the importance of ethics in the operation of financial markets and institutions and in the conduct of finance professionals." "Focusing on standards of fairness in market transactions and the duties of...
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Introduces readers to what is enduring in the realm of money and what is transient; the social and economic fucntions banks perform and how these do or don't change; the current growth in credit cards and future smart cards; computer banking and the Internet; privacy and security; the flow of wholesale payments in the money markets, and the "notional" value of the derivatives, a rapidly growing source of profits for large banks.
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This book demonstrates why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big finance. The growth of the financial sector has dramatically transformed the American economy by redistributing resources from workers and families into the hands of owners, executives, and financial professionals. The average American is now divested from a world driven by the maximization of financial profit. The authors provide systematic evidence...
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Can the contemporary Islamic finance movement be shown to meet the requirements of modern commerce? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on America the UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting transnational sources of terrorist funds. The United States and the International Monetary Fund are encouraging the governments of the Middle East to adopt policies of economic liberalism and a new type of capitalism, based on Islamic values and beliefs,...
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"The 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculative frenzy of the eighties didn't just happen. It was the culmination of a long cycle of slow relaxation of credit practices--the subject of James Grant's brilliant, clear-eyed history of American finance. Two long-running trends converged in the 1980s...
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"Access to finance is a critical element in any effort to promote development in emerging market economies. In this analysis of the Latin American financial sector, Barbara Stallings and Rogerio Studart examine recent transformations in the region, compare them to related developments elsewhere, and consider where they might lead. They challenge the new literature on finance and development, which argues for the elimination of public-sector banks,...
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"In this new book, a distinguished group of authors takes stock of the existing state of knowledge in the field of finance and the development process. Each chapter offers a comprehensive survey and synthesis of current issues. These include such critical topics as savings, financial markets and the macroeconomy, stock market development, financial regulation, foreign investment and aid, financing livelihoods, microfinance, rural financial markets,...
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