How Fintech Firms are Using Mobile and Blockchain Technologies to Create
An extensive discussion on thethird generation Internet, ValueWeb, allowing consumers and machines to connectand share value in real time and for free.
Exploring the function of money as a medium of exchange and a store of value, this major work provides a comprehensive introduction to the pure theory of money and monetary policy. Jurg Niehans considers his subject in both its microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The analysis thus extends from the individual demand for money to monetary ......
This book rejects the modern tendency to evaluate banking regulation without reference to monetary theory by positioning the economic analysis of banking regulation within monetary economics.
This multidisciplinary book covers Islamic economic, financial, legal, and socio-political systems, insurance (takaful), and commercial jurisprudence. It examines the dichotomies and similarities between Islamic and conventional financial systems and suggests future roles and governance of Islamic financial institutions.
The U.S. banking system, its regulation and deregulation, and especially its deposit guarantees, continue to pose complex problems. The Crisis in American Banking offers six original perspectives on this continuing crisis, drawing from modern Austrian economics and from public choice theories that have seldom been applied to contemporary banking ......
The guide to protect your money from fraud, phishing and scams
Rorts and Rip-Offs is your guide to understanding what you can do to minimise your exposure to white collar crime and protect your money. From unqualified tax advice to poor finance advice, dud investment schemes, online scams and more, now is the time to be alert to the techniques used to steal your money.
Combining theory, empirical evidence, institutional analysis, and policy evaluation, the second edition of Money, Interest, and Banking in Economic Development provides a comprehensive overview of the role of monetary and financial economics in developing countries. Maxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign ......
Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit
This book informs a renewed movement for fair lending and fair housing. Leading advocates and specialists examine strategic initiatives to realize objectives of the federal Fair Housing Act as well as state and local laws Well-known fair housing and fair lending activists and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing ......
This text highlights the achievements of commercial banks in New York and distinguishes them from their more flamboyant competitors. It is argued that in many ways the history of commercial banking in the state of New York constitutes the history of commercial banking for the entire nation.
An extensive discussion on the digital revolution in banking - by leading independent commentator Chris Skinner, voted Top 10 Banking Blogger by Financial Brand 2012 and 2013
Argues that open competition among private firms could provide a monetary system better than that currently provided by state monopolized central banks, indicating how monetary uncertainty is brought on by cycles of inflation and disinflation inherent in the system.
Written by respected thought leader and e-banking expert Brett King, this book will question the future of banking as we know it. Will banks become extinct?