Banking Finance

Reich werden mit Privatkrediten? Das Praxisbuch über P2P-Kredite - alles, was du für erfolgreiches Investieren wissen musst. Zur börsenfernen Diversifikation, als Rendite-Booster und Quelle für passives Einkommen erfreuen sich Privatkredit-Investments immer größerer Beliebtheit. Zurecht, finden Sebastian Wörner und Vincent Willkomm - denn in keiner anderen Anlageklasse kann man so einfach, so schnell und mit so flexiblem Budget so hohe Renditen erreichen.

In response to the recent economy’s woes, banks have placed a growing premium on reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies and many banks have turned to lean programs as a useful tool. Most of these banks will find themselves disappointed, however, because few lean initiatives, in our experience, deliver the expected results. The near and longer-term impact on costs proves to be far less than expected, and any gains in efficiency prove to be either temporary or too limited in scope...

So, you want to be an investment banker, huh? Well, you're looking in the right place. This is the only book on the market that guides you right through the process from where and when to apply, to the most likely interview questions and even how to impress your boss from day one ensuring you keep that job.

This original Cryptocurrency series contains three practical books for any listener to comprehend and quickly learn the core fundamentals and dynamics of these fast-growing technologies. The series includes Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency.

Cos'è successo ad Arezzo, Ancona, Chieti, Ferrara, Vicenza, Treviso e in tante altre città? Perché migliaia di italiani sono scesi in piazza a protestare chiedendo di riavere i propri soldi? Il grande imbroglio ai danni dei risparmiatori italiani si è consumato nel giro di pochi mesi: un falò delle vanità finanziarie che ha bruciato milioni di euro.

The streets are chattering about it. The bankers are discussing about it. The businesses are preparing for it. The traders are ecstatic about it. Perhaps your friends are talking about it, and you may have read about it. The chatters get louder and louder every hour.... Yet, what are you doing for yourself? Now is the time for you to educate yourself about cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, other digital currencies and the blockchain technology behind it).

Most American adults easily recognize the following description of the 2008 financial crisis. Unregulated Wall Street firms (so-called shadow banks) made too many risky bets with derivatives, causing the housing bubble to burst. The contagious run through the financial system was only stopped by bailouts from the federal government and major regulatory changes

This book spells out what global banks intend to do with our savings during the next banking crisis. Americans, including ourselves, feel that when we put our money in our local bank, the money we put in is ours. Not anymore! Once the teller takes your money and gives you the deposit slip, it becomes the bank's money. Chapter one explains the new rules that we all must live with as of November 2014.

This is not your father's financial system. Jimmy Stewart, the trustworthy, honest banker in the movie, It's a Wonderful Life, is dead. And so is his small-town bank, Bailey Savings & Loan. Instead, we're watching It's a Horrible Mess with Wall Street (aka the Vegas Strip) playing ever larger craps with our economy and our tax dollars. This audiobook, written by one of the world's most respected economists, describes in lively, humorous, simple, but also deadly serious terms the big con underlying the big game. But is also proposes a solution - Limited Purpose Banking.

In Bank 3.0, Brett King brings the story up to date with the latest trends redefining financial services and payments - from the global scramble for dominance of the mobile wallet and the expectations created by tablet computing to the operationalizing of the cloud, the explosion of social media, and the rise of the de-banked consumer, who doesn't need a bank at all.

You make a good salary, and you're putting away savings that barely keeps up with the cost of living. You need a professional, trustworthy team to build your passive income cash flow. In The Wealth Elevator: Real estate syndications, accredited investor banking, and tax strategies for first-gen millionaires, real estate investor and fund manager Lane Kawaoka shows you how to ascend the investment floors to financial freedom.

In The Hellhound of Wall Street, Michael Perino recounts in riveting detail the 1933 hearings that put Wall Street on trial for the Great Crash. Never before in American history had so many financial titans been called to account before the public, and they had come within a few weeks of emerging unscathed. By the time Ferdinand Pecora, a Sicilian immigrant and former New York prosecutor, took over as chief counsel, the investigation had dragged on ineffectively for nearly a year and was universally written off as dead....

The Federal Reserve is the most powerful central bank in the world. Without its central bank, America would be subject to devastating fluctuations in currency value and chronic economic instability. To stabilize the economy, the Fed adjusts interest rates and intervenes in the economy more directly when appropriate. According to most Fed observers, it as an impartial referee exercising its independence free from political interference in order to advance the best interests of America.

The Number That Killed Us finally tells the "greatest story never told": how a mysterious financial risk measurement model has ruled the world for two decades and how it repeatedly, and severely, caused market, economic, and social turmoil. This model was the key factor behind the unleashing of the cataclysmic credit crisis that erupted in 2007 and which the effects are still being felt around the world.

The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age.

if you’re stressed about your finances; let me tell you, my early financial life was anything but a smooth ride. Picture this: the inevitable ups and downs of my dad's real estate business shaping my financial destiny. It was like being on a roller coaster, but without the fun. But fear not! I found my way to the “safer” profession of law, where I learned some crucial principles that changed my perspective on building wealth.

Alan Kohler, one of Australia’s most trusted financial experts, offers unique insights into and thorough analysis of the crisis in financial services. Having observed the industry firsthand for more than 45 years, Kohler sees the big picture in a way no-one else can. With a sharp and unflinching eye, Kohler explains how the stage was set for corruption, breaks down the royal commission’s findings and unpacks what it means for you.

Viele angehende und sogar bereits erfahrene Trader unterschätzen die wichtige Rolle der Psychologie beziehungsweise der Psyche auf die Entscheidungen beim Daytrading. Dabei nimmt die Trading Psychologie einen überaus wichtigen Stellenwert ein und ist in vielen Fällen für Gewinn oder Verlust beim Aktienhandel, dem CFD Handel und FOREX Trading verantwortlich. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt unter wissenschaftlichem, verhaltenspsychologischem Ansatz, wie Trader die störenden und gleichzeitig typischen Denk - und Verhaltensmuster eliminieren, die für Fehlentscheidungen verantwortlich sind.

In The Bank War: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and the Fight for American Finance, historian Paul Kahan explores one of the most important and dramatic events in American political and economic history, from the idea of centralized banking and the First Bank of the United States to Jackson's triumph, the era of "free banking", and the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Relying on a range of primary and secondary source material, the book also shows how the Bank War was a manifestation of the debates that were sparked at the Constitutional Convention....

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH) presents a formal and systematic exposition of a new narrative about financial markets that reconciles rational investor behavior with periods of temporary financial insanity. In this narrative, intelligent but fallible investors learn from and adapt to randomly shifting environments. Financial markets may not always be efficient, but they are highly competitive, innovative, and adaptive, varying in their degree of efficiency as investor populations and the financial landscape change over time.