The financial crisis that stemmed from subprime mortgage lending in the US has ensnared markets around the world. How is it that lending practices in Florida or California can wreak havoc in Asia or Europe?

The progressive financial deregulation, following the abolishment of the Bretton Woods System in the early 1970s, changed the use and the configuration of technologies in the organizational contexts of finance.

Tick by Tick is an in-depth and unique collection of analyses of the behaviour of the financial markets at the micro level. Its publication is particularly timely, given the current period of high volatility in the financial markets.

An interactive guide to mapping your retirement plans
In Seven Steps to Financial Freedom in Retirement, financial advising and estate planning expert Harold Parrott guides the reader through the sometimes murky waters of retirement planning.

Award-winning author Edward S. Miller contends in this new work that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. While researching newly declassified records of the Treasury and Federal Reserve, Miller, a retired chief financial executive of a Fortune 500 resources corporation, uncovered just how much money mattered. Washington experts confidently predicted that the war in China would bankrupt Japan, not knowing that the Japanese government had a huge cache of dollars fraudulently hidden in New York.

A team of scholars with backgrounds in criminology, sociology, economics, business, government regulation, and law examine the historical, social, and cultural causes of the 2008 economic crisis.

Gain an understanding of the financial theory that is essential for developing and implementing effective financial strategies in business today. FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE, 13E strikes a perfect balance between solid financial theory and practical applications.

Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one. Each has been preceded by a period of excessive monetary ease, and by ill thought out regulatory changes.

The IMF's response to the global crisis of 2008-2009 marked a significant change from its past policies. The Fund provided relatively large amounts of credit quickly with limited conditions, and accepted the use of capital controls. This book traces the evolution of the IMF's actions to promote international financial stability from the Bretton Woods era through the most recent crisis.

While advances in information technology and the adoption of Internet as service delivery channels have enabled financial service institutions to provide more convenient assistance, they have diversified and complicated the nature of risks involved.

Designed for finance directors, finance managers, analysts and decision-makers, Mastering Financial Mathematics in Microsoft Excel, is a practical guide to applying Excel for solving mathematical problems.
Financial mathematics can be applied more quickly and easily in Excel than any other package, there is therefore demand for a book in this field.