Credit risk

from transaction to portfolio management

'Credit Risk: from transaction to portfolio management' provides high level, focused analysis of the nature of credit risk in investment bank portfolio management. Written by experienced international practitioners, it offers in-depth information and advice that will help all those charged with managing credit risk at ...

European company and financial Law

texts and leading cases

As with previous editions, the third edition of this book contains every piece of European legislation affecting companies and the financial sector. This edition will be even more valuable to the reader as it also features commentaries on the leading cases decided by European and ...

Economic capital allocation with Basel II

Cost, benefit and implementation procedures

This book is a complimentary follow-on book to Operational Risk Control with Basel II. While the previous book focuses on operational risk, Economic Capital Allocation provides an overview of credit risk within the context of the Basel II accords. The book provides: -Comprehensive coverage of ...

Credit, intermediation, and the macroeconomy

readings and perspectives in modern financial theory

This combination of explanatory discussion by leading financial economists and centrally important journal articles provides comprehensive and coherent coverage of the major issues in financial theory. It will help students to understand the functioning of the financial sector and the intermediary institutions that comprise it

Law of bank payments

INDEX: 1 Introduction. 2 Money. 3 Payment by funds transfer. 4 Plastic money. 5 Internet payments. 6 Bills of exchange. 7 Cheques. 8 Documentary credits and related transactions.

Who pays for bank insolvency?

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means ...

The nature of money

Mainstream economics fails to grasp the specific nature of money. It is seen either as a #neutral veil# over the operation of the #real# economy or alternatively as a #thing# # a special commodity. In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in ...

The future of global financial services

This book explores the future of the financial services industry, giving readers an idea of the kinds of institutions and services that will survive in the early twenty-first century. An informative and provocative exploration of the future of the financial services industry. Focuses on likely ...

Institutional conflicts and complementarities

This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on "Institutional Conflicts and Complementarities" This publication is intent on building bridges between economics and the other social sciences. The focus is on the interaction between monetary policy and wage bargaining institutions in European Monetary Union ...

Value added risk management in finacial institutions

leveraging Basel II & risk adjusted performance measurement

The typical financial executive s view of the value of risk management in their financial institution is based on the belief that risk management focuses on loss avoidance. This view is based on the history of risk management being control focused. However, risk management has ...

Reshaping economic and monetary union

membership rules and budget policies in Germany, France and Spain

Following Maastricht national governments found themselves pushed into distinctive roles, as promoters, gatekeepers, reformers and defectors, as voter preferences and central bank powers combined in different ways to create clear incentives for politicians. These roles explain the push from certain countries for specific changes to ...

The political economy of exchange rate policy-making

from the gold standard to the Euro

Steven Kettell analyzes the development of exchange rate policymaking from a Marxist perspective. He examines and provides a new means of understanding three key policymaking episodes in Britain - the return to the gold standard in 1925, membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism from 1990-1992 ...

The price of the Euro

This volume presents a critical examination of the EMU from different perspectives. It includes essays on the political economy of currency unions, on the Growth and Stability pact, the European Central Bank, an evaluation of the first four years of the EMU, and the costs ...

Estrategia y Gestión de Patrimonios, Año II Nº 19 Septiembre-Ocubre 2004

How monetary policy works

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge. The data such policymakers have is imperfect, the maps they use are continually redrawn. With such uncertainty, understanding this complicated issue is rarely straightforward. This ...

Cajas de Ahorros: novedades legislativas

(Revista Perspectivas del Sistema Financiero, Nº 81, año 2004)

Contenido: -INTRODUCCIÓN / José María Méndez Álvarez-Cedrón -RÉGIMEN DE TRANSPARENCIA EN LAS CAJAS DE AHORROS / Agustín Madrid Parra -LOS ÓRGANOS DE GOBIERNO DE LAS CAJAS: UN TRIENIO DE MINIRREFORMAS Y CONTRARREFORMAS / Juan Alfonso Santamaría Pastor -SOBRE EL REFORZAMIENTO DE LOS RECURSOS PROPIOS BÁSICOS DE LAS CAJAS ...

Mercado de capitales europeo

el camino de la integración

La implantacion de la moneda unica creo el mayor mercado financiero del mundo despues del americano y propicio una mayor cohesion entre los mercados de los diferentes paises. En estos momentos, el mercado de valores europeo se encuentra en una senda irreversible hacia la integracion ...

El Banco Central Europeo y el sistema europeo de bancos centrales

régimen jurídico de la autoridad monetaria de la Comunidad Europea