Contemporary financial intermediation

Stuart Greenbaum and Anjan Thakor bring a unique analytical approach to the subject of banks and banking in this completely revised and updated new edition. They expand the scope of the typical bank management course by addressing all types of deposit-type financial institutions and by ...

Moneda, banca y mercados financieros

En sus manos se encuentra el libro de texto más vendido del tema a nivel mundial: Moneda, banca y mercados financieros nos ayuda a comprender la economía que da fundamento a la forma en la que funcionan el dinero y las instituciones bancarias y los ...

Government debts and financial markets in Europe

Studying the history of public debt represents a fascinating means to investigate the role of public finances in the making of European states both at a national and regional level. "Government Debts and Financial Markets" brings together essays by leading historians of economic and financial ...

El mecanismo de funcionamiento de los bancos islámicos y su tamaño en los mercados financieros

un estudio comparativo internacional de su eficiencia

Las especifidades del sistema económico islámico, en cuanto al modo de operar y en lo que a mecanismos de funcionamiento se refiere, lo ubican en un terreno a mediocamino entre el capitalismo y el socialismo. En el momento actual, se halla en sus fases iniciales ...

Microcréditos y pobreza

de un sueño al Nobel de la Paz

La concesión del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2006 al profesor Muhammad Yunus y a la institución que él fundó, el Banco Grameen, ha venido a reconocer la importante presencia de los microcréditos en el escenario actual de la financiación para el desarrollo, así como ...

The New NASDAQ marketplace

The Nasdaq Stock Market has been reengineered in recent years from a competitive dealer market to a modern hybrid. The broader Nasdaq marketplace, including ECNs and ATSs, has also experienced substantial growth and development. This conference brought together leading buy- side and sell-side participants and ...

Bank capital and risk-taking

the impact of capital regulation, charter value, and business cycle

The year-long consultations on Basel II mirror the international popularity of capital requirements as a regulatory instrument. Yet, the impact of capital requirements on banks' behavior is not fully understood. The aim of this study is to contribute to this understanding by answering the following ...

Muhammad Yunus

el banquero de los pobres

Del verbo latino credere (#confiar#) proviene nuestra palabra #crédito#. El mundo sólo da crédito a los que ya poseen. El economista de Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus, con su #Banco para los pobres#, sólo se lo da a quienes no poseen. En cuestiones de dinero, el mundo ...

Anti money laundering

a guide for financial firms

Focusing on how a system can be constructed to prevent firms from being used to further financial crime, and how to avoid regulatory penalties, this work guides on how to implement a proportionate and effective anti-money laundering regime. It is aimed at compliance professionals, lawyers ...

Banking regulation of UK and US financial markets

Dalvinder Singh provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the legal aspects of prudential supervision. This gives the reader a broader understanding of the core processes of banking supervision. By using the UK as a case study, a comparison is made with the US to illustrate the ...

Debt, risk and liquidity in futures markets

The issues of developing country debt crises, increased volatility and risk, and the determination of market liquidity are high on the agendas of policy makers, market participants and researchers in the area of financial markets. These issues are also of major importance to regulators and ...

Financial privacy

an internacional comparision of credit reporting systems

Credit reporting agencies collect and compile highly-sensitive information on millions of consumers in credit markets throughout the world and also increasingly across a variety of industries, such as insurance, retail and telecommunications. In this revised edition, Nicola Jentzsch provides an in-depth analysis of the economics ...

Manual de preveción del blanqueo de capitales

En España la norma fundamental en materia de prevención del blanqueo de capitales es la Ley 19/1993, actualizada por la Ley 19/2003, complementada por diversas disposiciones de inferior rango, entre las que caben destacar los Reales Decretos 925/1995 y 54/2005. Y ...

Fundaciones

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº91, año 2007)

INDICE:Introducción.Los sistemas de evaluación del desempeño organizativo e impacto social de las fundaciones. Utilidades del marketing no lucrativo.El ejercicio de actividades empresariales por las fundaciones (fundación empresa y fundación con empresa): su significado en el régimen jurídico de las cajas de ahorros ...

Countering terrorist finance

a training handbook for financial services

Regulation and control of the financial industry has become the weapon of choice for governments struggling to control the rise in global crime and terrorism. Tim Parkman and Gill Peeling's "Countering Terrorist Finance: A Training Handbook" is a practical, specialist guide to training staff ...

Money laundering

business compliance

In the drive to halt funding terrorist activity, control of money laundering activity has risen high on the Governments agenda. The Money Laundering Regulations 2003 expand the Regulators already wide powers. Failure to comply with anti-money laundering provisions prevents businesses functioning properly, carries severe financial ...

New financial instruments and institutions

opportunitoes and policy challenges

Japan's financial institutions and instruments are closely related to the United States model. In both countries, new financial instruments, such as structured financial products and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and new financial institutions - which include hedge funds and private equity funds - present opportunities as well ...

El fin de una era

turbulencias en la globalización

#Los bancos centrales del G-7 prefieren una crisis financiera global a tener que sacrificar el modelo capitalista. La gestación de las múltiples burbujas greenspanianas llevó a una megaburbuja teratológica que es preferible dejar estallar antes de que arrase con todos sus jugadores. No es poca ...

Competition and profitability in European financial services

strategic, systematic and policy iusses

Économie monétaire et financière

Qu'est-ce que la monnaie ? Pourquoi les agents économiques en ont-ils besoin ? Comment est-elle mesurée par les autorités monétaires ? De quelle manière exerce-t-elle une influence sur l'activité économique ? Comment le système financier est-il organisé ? Quelle instance est responsable de la politique monétaire unique au ...