This book analyzes the set of forces driving the global financial system toward a period of radical transformation and explores the transformational challenges that lie ahead for global and regional or local banks and other financial intermediaries. It is explained how these challenges derive...

This book presents the methodology and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and...

This book is a practical guide to the evolving landscape of finance, highlighting how it’s changing our relationship with money and how financial technology, together with macroeconomic and societal change, is rewriting the story of how business is done in developing economies. Financial...

Social Entrepreneurship wird wesentlich durch Venture-Philanthropy- und Social-Venture-Capital-Gesellschaften finanziert. Peter Heister analysiert den Auswahlprozess und die Auswahlkriterien dieser neuartigen Finanzintermediäre auf Basis von Fallstudien und legt damit die erste umfangreiche...