The governance of public and non-profit organisations

what do boards do?

Ed. Chris Cornforth. Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non- profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap ...

Venture capital

a Euro-System approach

Covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the way venture capital really works, the relations between venture capital, corporate banking and stock exchanges, market trends in Europe and the US, legal issues related to the creation of venture capital firms and closed end funds ...

Asset management and investor protection

an international analysis

Scandals in financial institutions, weakness in the world economy, and volatility in financial markets bring to the fore issues of regulation and consumer protection. This comparative survey of how investors are currently protected in a range of European countries and the USA is set in ...

The structural foundations of international finance

problems of growth and stability

The principal message of this book is that international financial enterprises must be re-oriented towards funding productive activities rather than potentially destabilizing speculation. The effects of financial sector operations are addressed with serious warnings that the dangers of speculative destabilization are increasing as regulatory and ...

Capitalism, not globalism

capital mobility, central bank independence, and the political control of the economy

While much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not fundamentally changed in the postwar period. In Capitalism, Not Globalism, William Roberts Clark challenges both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists in his assertion ...

Financial structure

an investigation of sectoral balance sheets in the G-7

Cross-country comparisons of sectoral balance sheets offer crucial indications of differences in overall financial structure, which in turn underlie contrasts in financing and economic behaviour. In this context, this book aims to confront theory and extant empirical work with aggregate financial data across the G-7 ...

The new financial order

risk in the 21st Century

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts ...

Money and banking

A survey of the role played by money and banking in the global economy. The book is an introduction for new bankers or students of banking, and a refresher for more experienced bankers preparing for coursework. Coverage ranges from interest rates to bank regulation, monetary ...

Handbook of international banking

The Handbook of International Banking provides a clearly accessible source of reference material, covering the main developments that reveal how the internationalization and globalization of banking have developed over recent decades to the present, and analyses the creation of a new global financial architecture. The ...

The invisible hands of U.S. commercial banking reform

private action and public guarantees

In the late twentieth century a number of forces converged to create pressure for profound change in the U.S. commercial banking industry. Changes in the global economy created monetary pressures. A financially sophisticated baby boom generation fuelled the demand for investment alternatives to bank ...

L'ère des banques centrales

Les banques centrales évoluent... La modialisation, paradoxalement, a accru consodérablement le pouvoir et l'audience de ces institutions technocratiques, devenues des interlocuteurs majeurs des marchés. L'auter retrace les circonstances, les rèflexions et les étapes qui ont justifié et jalonné la montée en puissance des ...

Cajas de Ahorro

naturaleza jurídica e intervención pública

La caja de ahorros es una institución tan antigua como polémica. En sus más de 150 años de existenciaha quedado demostrado la peculiaridad de su naturaleza, lo que se ha manifestado en la existencia en su seno de dos vertientes -la funcionalidad y la crediticia- ...

Bank confidentiality

Published in conjunction with the International Bar Association, this third edition gives a clear picture of the laws relating to bank confidentiality. Recent international initiatives, particularly in the fields of anti-money laundering which have resulted in legislative and regulatory changes in many jurisdictions, are covered ...

The international handbook on financial reform

Under growing pressure from within and outside their economies, countries around the world have embarked upon wide-ranging programmes of financial reform. This handbook provides country studies of contemporary developments in financial reform in a selection of both developed and developing countries from Western Europe, North ...

Manual para el análisis del riesgo de crédito

Si quiere triunfar en el mundo del crédito tiene que adoptar un enfoque estructurado. Para hacerlo es fundamental poner en práctica los cinco principios de la actividad crediticia: presentación del cliente, aplicación, revisión, evaluación y control. Este manual permitirá al lector examinar detenidamente cada una ...

Management consultancy and banking in an era of globalization

Management consultancy and investment banking have been held up as industries at the forefront of contemporary globalization. Using an inter-disciplinary approach ranging across economics, economic geography, sociology and management studies, Andrew Jones analyzes the nature of globalization within business service transnational corporations in these sectors ...

Contabilidad bancaria

Financiera, de gestión y auditoría

Esta obra, fruto de la actividad de sus autores en el master en Banca y Mercados Financieros organizado e impartido en Santander por la Universidad de Cantabria y el Banco Santander Central Hispano, aborda el estudio de la actividad bancaria en España, explicando sus operaciones ...

European retail banks - an endangered species?

survival strategies for the future

Introduction The European Retail Banking Landscape in 2002 The European Retail Banking Landscape in the Future The Retail Banking Value Chain (Product Development - Quality is Not as "In" as You Think! / - Branding and Marketing - Do (Retail) Banks Really Have a Brand? / Sales - Do (Better) or ...

New strategies for financial services firms

the Life-Cycle-Solution approach

The German financial services market is in deep crisis. Deregulation and the new means of communication have fostered competition and made the market a transparent level playing field. Moreover, customers increasingly demand individualized solutions to their financial problems. Many financial services providers reacted by merging ...

La banca

todo lo que el cliente debe saber

En este libro le mostrarán las ventajas e inconvenientes de las distintas ofertas bancarias, cómo elegir las que mejor se adaptan a sus necesidades y sobre todo a defenderse de los abusos de su antidad