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Describes how banks can be harmed by embezzlement and fraud committed by both insiders and outsiders, and suggests ways for an alert management to prevent such crimes

Product Description: Written for students and business neophytes alike, it provides a thorough grounding in the art of investing. Defines the basic types of securities and the concepts of risk and return; explains how the securities market operates; shows how to analyze securities step-by-step; explores the issues of administering investments in stocks, tax shelters, real estate and other investments; and deals with the special situations that might arise in convertibles, commodities and derivative securities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Interest Rate Risk Management experts Benton Gup and Robert Brooks explain how banks and other types of financial institutions can use derivative securities to reduce interest rate risk. Comprehensive and in-depth, the book examines the effects of interest rate risk; the effects of interest rate changes on the value of financial assets; traditional and state-of-the art asset liability management techniques; how to hedge interest rate risks using forwards, futures, swaps and various types of options; regulatory and accounting considerations; and interest rate risk management policies...read more

Product Description: The Bank Director's Handbook is a comprehensive guide that enables directors - and bankers - to meet the challenges of the financial services industry and to fulfill the legal and regulatory requirements facing them. In-depth technical knowledge of the markets, the industry, and the myriad regulations that surround them is more important than ever before...read more

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Product Description: The financial crises that began unexpectedly in Southeast Asia in 1997 spread rapidly around the globe, causing banks to fail, stock markets to plummet, and other newsmaking disruptions. Gup and his contributors examine these failures and crises in the main arenas where they occurred―Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Russia, Argentina―and provide some important answers to the critical questions these frightening events raised...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents bank management in the context of risk and return. Examines current banking practices to minimize different kinds of risk; explores the management of bank liquidity; discusses regulation, competition and policy, and international bank management...read more

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Product Description: Citibank merged with Travelers. Daimler-Benz (Germany) acquired Chrysler (U.S.). In Japan three large banks combined to form the biggest bank in the world. What's going on? Cross-border and domestic megamergers continue to make headlines, but megamergers themselves are not new...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The basic functions of banking―lending, deposit taking, and making payments―are constant. What changes are the forms banking takes in response to increases in competition, globalizaion, new laws, and emerging technologies. Among the most visible of these changes will be an increase in the consolidation and globalization of banking in the world's major trading countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In a clear and concise form, this text explains the basics of investing online, highlighting what investors should know before, during, and after they invest. The text covers information needed for the entire process of investing online, including dealing with brokers online, analyzing and determining the value of investments, and managing an investment portfolio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Becoming operational in 2007, the Basel Capital Accord initiative is an effort to bring order to international capital markets and level the playing field for banks. Bottom line, officials hope to align capital with the risks faced by banks...read more

Presents bank management in the context of risk and return. Examines current banking practices to minimize different kinds of risk; explores the management of bank liquidity; discusses regulation, competition and policy, and international bank management. Short cases are used to illustrate concepts.

Product Description: Capital Markets, Globalization, and Economic Development consists of fourteen articles contributed by authors from Australia, Asia, Europe, South America, and the United States who provide a wide range of insights. The contributors include academics, government officials, and regulators...read more

Product Description: Money laundering is a global problem. It involves hundreds of billions of dollars, and it is proof that crime pays. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, money laundering can erode a nation's economy and it can adversely affect the global stability of financial markets...read more