'Controls, Procedures and Risk' covers the skills and procedures needed to enable the monitoring and managing of risk and the authors focus on procedures design, implementation and documentation. Con
Financial markets are given to instability, but some financial systems are more crisis-prone than others. Natasha Hamilton-Hart's historically grounded investigation of central banks, governments, and
Wilhelm (management studies, Oxford U.) and US investment banker Downing offer a framework for understanding the tensions that arise in information-intensive markets and how organizations adapt to the
Here's what you've been searching for -- a book that provides focused coverage of banking and financial systems. Students learn the importance of money and interest, negotiable instruments, mortgages,
A fascinating story of a legendary dealmaker who masterminded an unprecedented mergerCitigroup CEO Sandy Weill orchestrated many deals over his legendary forty-five year career—none bigger than
Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the
A readable, engrossing examination of the oldest existing international financial institution and a balanced evaluation of its value, importance, and the good it has done weighed against the bad.
Banking and finance play a fundamental role in public policy and economic performance as well as in all forms of commerce and industry. They are crucial in determining whether society - from governmen
Kenen (economics and international finance, Princeton University) reviews the reform efforts that followed the 1994-95 Mexican crisis, and evaluates their results in the time since then. He compares t
Perhaps the last Washington secret is how the Federal Reserve and its enigmatic chairman, Alan Greenspan, operate. In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his proven interviewing and research techniques to tak
Improving Banking Supervision shows how greater market discipline can be used to help improve the quality of banks and their management in a world of increasing complexity, size, and innovation. The b
In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skil
The International Monetary Fund under Constraint exposes a legal dilemma facing the IMF as it tackles international crisis management. This volume is a long-overdue legal analysis of IMF activities. I
Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of F
There is a fundamental reason, the authors of this book contend, why national financial systems falter and collapse: the failure of central banks and other supervisory authorities to deal promptly and
With the creation of a single global market in financial services, the effective regulation of banks at the international level has become essential. This work offers a comprehensive examination of th
