San Antonio College Library

This book contains a history of the Credit Union movement in Texas, beginning with "The Formative Years (1913-1936)," continuing with the "Gains and Growing Pains(1937-1959)," and ending with "Reaching for Tomorrow (1960-1984)."

"Information is power - and in financial markets that power has long belonged to intermediaries responsible for managing the exchange of information among clients. But now, technology has made information simultaneously and easily accessible to all through a simple internet connection. Moreover, technology has codified many practices that once relied solely on human relationships and judgment, transforming the control of industry know-how and intellectual...

"Financial Managers: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with professionals in a field that has proven to be a stable, lucrative, and growing profession"--

Examines what must be regarded as the most important single trend in the banking industry today: the momentum for banks to seek to deliver routine and commoditized services via mechanisms that incorporate communications technology, with this trend being at the expense of encouraging customers to visit physical branches.

Describes how a financial column assignment revealed to the author the unethical machinations of the multi-billion-dollar personal finance industry and its false promises of quick and easy wealth, explaining how everyday investors are routinely misled by self-proclaimed money experts who exploit clients to increase their own wealth.

In this work, Jeffrey Chwieroth explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how it staff's thinking about capital controls changed so radically. In doing so, he also provides an important case study of how international organizations work and evolve.

"In 1894, in the teeth of the country's second worst depression, Americans struggled to feed their families on one dollar a day. Only the very rich were able to own stock, and frequent "panics" and bank failures wiped out people's savings. Most Americans lacked minimal financial security." "John Elliott Tappan, a Minneapolis lawyer, decided to act: he founded Investors Syndicate, later known as IDS, the financial pioneer that later became American...