See no Evil

uncovering the truth behind the financial crisis

We are doomed to experience further financial crises in the future, because money is powerful, bankers clever, political will malleable, and memories short. So argues Erik Banks in this brilliant book, which tells the story of the recent global economic crisis in the words of ...

Finance

the basics

Finance: The Basics is a clear and practical introduction to the world of finance, allowing the reader to grasp relevant financial concepts and apply them to daily activities and studies. This fully revised and updated edition captures the most important aspects of a changing financial ...

The Palgrave Macmillan dictinary of finance, investment and banking

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Finance, Investment and Banking helps you understand and use financial language with more ease and confidence. Compiled by a finance professional with real-world experience on three continents, it is a highly practical reference book containing the essential terminology of today ...

Dark pools

the structure and future of off-exchange trading and liquidity

Dark Pools is a practical text dealing with the increasingly important topic of dark pools, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading and liquidity. A growing amount of institutional trading occurs away from exchanges and expansion in this little understood sector of the market is set to continue ...

Risk and financial catastrophe

Risk and Financial Catastrophe presents an in-depth discussion of the nature and consequences of financial disasters and the pragmatic solutions that must be considered in order to cope with such crises in the future. This highly topical book tackles technical issues in a readable, non-mathematical ...

The option applications handbook

hedging and speculating techniques for professional investors

After reading "The Options Applications Handbook", readers will be able to: describe the basic option types and use standard market terminology; understand the costs, benefits, and risks of basic option positions; identify the key factors that affect the price of an option; and, explain how ...

Credit derivatives

techniques to manage credit risk for financial professionals

ÍNDICE: Part I: Credit Derivative Products and Application: 1: An Introduction to Credit Derivatives. 2: Fundamental Credit Derivative Products . 3: Structured and Synthetic Credit Products. 4: An Overview of Credit Derivative Applications. Part II: Valuation Tools: 5: A Primer on Risk Modeling . 6: A Basic ...

Synthetic and structured assets

a practical guide to investment and risk

Organized along product lines, the book will analyze many of the original classes of structured assets, including mortgage- and asset- backed securities and strips, as well as the newest structured and synthetic instruments, including exchange-traded funds, credit derivative-based collateralized debt obligations, total return swaps, contingent ...

Financial lexicon

a compendium of financial definitions, acronyms, and colloquialisms

Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. Unlike other textbooks, which focus solely on ...

Corporate governance

financial responsibility, controls and ethics

Corporate Governance is a new text which considers the problems surrounding governance and proposes solutions to help restore investor confidence in the corporate world. The book is intended for board members, corporate executives, regulators, auditors, creditors and analysts seeking a concise analysis of the governance ...

Working the street

what you need to know about life on Wall Street

Written by a former Managing Director at Merrill Lynch, Working the Street is the resource for readers hoping to build a successful career on Wall Street. It is not a 'how-to' career book or a job guide. It doesn't tell the reader who to ...

Alternative risk transfer

integrated risk management through insurance, reinsurance, and the capital markets

The Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) market has expanded in recent years to become a vital source of risk solutions and risk capacity and an important mechanism for the creation of integrated corporate risk management programs. The ART market unites the risk management and product development ...

Liquidity risk

managing asset and funding risk

Much critical attention has been given in recent years to market and credit risks, which have a significant effect on corporate and financial operations and must be understood and managed with care. While these areas have rightly received considerable scrutiny, another critical dimension of financial ...

Practical risk management

an executive guide to avoiding surprises and losses

Practical Risk Management: An Executive Guide to Avoiding Surprises and Losses is a concise, yet thorough, look at the world of financial risk management. The book is written by two senior banking professionals who have managed business and state- of-the-art financial risk in large and ...

The credit risk of complex derivatives

Since the publication of the 2nd edition of The Credit Risk of Complex Derivatives in 1997, the world of derivatives has gone through a period of dramatic change - in the external operating environment, product and market characteristic and risk management techniques. In the light of ...

The simple rules of risk

revisiting the art of risk management

In an age where companies and financial institutions are keenly focusing on managing the financial risk of their operations, the implementation of quantitative methods and models has been of tremendous help, allowing firms to analyze and manage their risk more efficiently and effectively. However, the ...

Weather risk management

market, products and applications

The definitive guide to the rapidly expanding weather risk management market. The US Department of Commerce estimates that nearly 10% of the US's $9 trillion GDP is exposed to weather risk. All over the world providers and end users are recognising this fact and ...