This book offers 14 contributions that examine key questions in bank decision-taking, constitution of confidence in banks and risk management practices from Early Modernity to the twentieth century. It explores how the various mechanisms of bank decision taking changed over time. Chapters also...

This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. It radically rethinks previous attempts at a history of monetary institutions by avoiding institutional approach and shifting the focus away from the...

This seventh edition of an investment classic has been thoroughly revised and expanded following the latest crises to hit international markets. Renowned economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of...

Theoretischer Hintergrund: Organisations- und Entscheidungstheorien als Grundlage zur Analyse von Wirtschaftsunternehmen -- Die Hypothekenbanken im Gefüge der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft: Terminologie, Funktionsweise und Institution -- Überblick zur Entwicklung des modernen Realkreditwesens --...

The largest retail branch bank network is built in one of the most formidable environments in the world. This book takes the journey from Year Zero to the present, tracing the trials and triumphs of a group of people as they built an employment generation project for demobilized soldiers in 1992...

Chapter 1 Changes in the Domestic and International Economy -- Chapter 2 Status of Chinese Banks’ Internationalization -- Chapter 3. Current Situation of Foreign Banks’ Internationalization -- Chapter 4 Comparison of the overseas expansion between Chinese and Foreign Banks -- Chapter 5 Risk...

This book presents an overview of corporate governance and risk management, analyzing their interdependence and particularly their relevance in banking. It discusses current trends in corporate governance, such as stakeholder management, financial performance and the cost of equity, compensation...

Chapter 1: Banks Today: The Relationship between Financial Services and Technology -- Chapter 2: FinTech: Trends, Players, Challengers, and Bubbles -- Chapter 3: Products vs. Money Moments -- Chapter 4: Let’s Get Real: Anecdotes from FinTech Titans Experiencing Banking Products -- Chapter 5:...

Focusing on the dichotomous and comparative analysis of the legitimacy, paradigm, and operating frames of bank governance and its reproduction in the new financial regime following the global financial crisis, this book examines in depth how corporate governance in bank institutions is...