Every year, financial services organizations make billions of dollars worth of decisions using automated systems. For example, who to give a credit card too and the premium someone should pay for their home insurance. This book explains how the forecasting models, that lie at the heart of these systems, are developed and deployed.
Examines international aspects of financial institutions as well as their economic performance and development. This book places emphasis on transition economics as well as Developing Countries. It includes such issues as: financial reporting, efficiency of financial institutions, economic performance, money market liquidity, and more.
A book about how Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is evolving in the financial services industry. It covers risk management issues facing financial service firms such as: Risk Governance, Regulatory and Economic Capital, Credit Risk Management, Market Risk and Asset/Liability Management, Operational Risk Management, Risk Systems and Technology.
Federal financial regulation in the United States has evolved through a series of piecemeal responses to developments and crises in financial markets. This book provides an overview of the US financial regulation: which agencies are responsible for which institutions and markets, and what kinds of authority they have.
Provides the knowledge and tools required by operations managers and systems architects to develop and implement STP processing systems that streamline business processes to maintain competitiveness in the market. This book helps you keep informed in this regulated and ever changing market.
Written for professionals in financial services with responsibility for IT and risk management, this work surveys the methodology required and IT systems and structures to support it according to Basel II. It also discusses types of risk, stress analysis and the use of scenarios, mathematical models, and IT systems and infrastructure requirements.
Offers a fresh approach to the study of technological change in retail finance. Documenting developments in the US alongside case studies from Mexico and Europe, this book addresses the variety of financial institutions that populated the markets for retail finance.
When, in late 2008, the dust finally started to settle on one of the worst financial crises in history, only one Wall Street institution still stood virtually unassailed - Goldman Sachs. This title peers behind the curtain to give us the inside story of why Goldman is so profitable.
Reveals how to become a top-producing financial advisor using the method author has taught at Merrill Lynch. This comprehensive book combines marketing, prospecting, sales, and time management techniques into a system that helps readers build a successful practice.
This title is the definitive, annual guide to the requirements of the Listing, Prospectus, and Disclosure and Transparency Rules. It offers practical guidance on the eligibility criteria and continued obligations for listing on the London Stock Exchange, the disclosure requirements, and the contents, approval and publication of prospectuses.
Showing how to model operational risk, this book includes practical advice on how to set up an AMA programme that supports the modelling and quantification goals of a financial institution. It also provides information for modelling, in order to deliver the numbers needed for regulatory approval, and deliver value to their business lines.