This book underscores the complexity of the equity markets, the challenges they face, and the fact that they are still a work in process. Three interacting forces drive market change: competition, technology change, and regulatory change. The markets have one major objective in particular to...

This book reviews the key policy debates during the post-crash era, describing the issues that policymakers grappled with, the decisions that they took and the details of the policy instruments that were created. It focuses specifically on the policy regimes at the epicentre of the crisis:...

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Basics of Islamic Economics and Finance -- Chapter 2 Money, Its Origins, Nature and the Time Value of Money -- Chapter 3 An Analysis of Paper Money and the Concept of Multi-Genus Banknotes -- Chapter 4 The Origins of Accounting in the Islamic Economics and Finance...

1. Introduction; Mohyedine Hajjar -- Introductory Part 1: Legal Framework of Islamic Finance in EU Legislation -- 2. Financial Undertakings, Sharīᶜa Rules and the Internal Market Framework Challenges and Opportunities; Gabriella Gimigliano -- 3. Islamic Insurance and European Union Legal...

Chapter 1: Demystifying China’s Stock Market: The Hidden Logic behind the Puzzles -- Chapter 2: What Does History Tell Us? The Roots of China’s Modern Stock Market -- Chapter 3: A Government-Dominated Financial System -- Chapter 4: A Chinese style speculative market -- Chapter 5: The...

Influenced by technological innovation, banks and their businesses are changing dramatically. This book explores the transformation and prospects of financial market institutions (banks, insurance companies, pension funds and microfinance organizations) in the context of the development of...

This book provides a coherent Blockchain framework for the business community, governments, and universities structured around microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and political economy and identifies how financial markets and governmental policies are changed by digitization, specifically...