Frontier markets environment -- Frontier market economy -- Frontier market financial system -- Frontier capital markets -- Investment banking in frontier markets -- Investment banks -- Risk management -- Regulatory framework -- Raising capital in frontier markets -- Equity under…
This book examines the fundamental nature of banking in the economy of the 1970s and 80s, arguing that banking cannot be properly understood unless it is regarded as the retailing of financial services. In analysing the nature of banking the book demonstrates how banking might o…
"To understand the 2008 financial crisis, Neil Fligstein looks to the business models of the big US banks. He shows how firms got hooked on mortgages-originating them, securitizing them, selling those securities, and even buying the same securities. In time their addiction nearl…
Introduction: opportunities and obstacles -- The vortex of speculation: picturing women investors -- Engendering finance: women and Wall Street -- Lambs to be fleeced and petticoated sharks: women and financial fraud -- Turning Wall Street inside out: Victoria Woodhull and the f…
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to credit risk -- Credit rating models -- Approaches for measuring probability of default (PD) -- Exposure at default (EAD) and loss given default (LGD) -- Validation and stress testing of credit risk models -- Portfol…
"Attempts to demystify various standard mathematical and statistical techniques that can be applied in measuring and managing portfolio credit risk in the emerging market in India"--
"A complete, detailed guide to modern Islamic banking fundamentals Modern Islamic Bankingprovides a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to the products, processes and legal doctrines underlying Islamic banking. Written by a pioneering practitioner in the field, this book provi…
The Global Financial Crisis made its first appearance in Britain towards the end of 2007 with the failure of the Northern Rock Bank. It then reached an unparalleled intensity a year later when the government was forced to intervene to prevent the collapse of Lloyds/HBOS and RBS/…
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008 -- while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking -- was, ultimately, a failure of la…