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Understanding the Financial Industry Through Linguistics

Author : Richard C. Robinson

Publisher : Business Expert Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 12,44 MB

Release : 2021-05-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1637420595

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This book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges. Imagine a collection of villages all beset upon by monsters. One village defeats their monsters using silver bullets. They convince all surrounding villages that their solution should be the only standard. The next village uses silver bullets to repel the monsters but fail! Why? Because the first village was fighting werewolves, the second village was fighting vampires. This is our data challenge–recognizing not all problems are the same - and there are no single silver bullet solutions. There are many communities within financial services, each with nuanced needs that require slightly different solutions to address what may look like the same problem. The financial services industry is unique for being based upon information and communication. It is the failure in understanding that multiple existing financial languages exist and pursuing interoperability that sits at the crux of financial crisis – not the lack of a single unified financial language. This book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges. The author presents a new, unique approach to broad industry issues, leveraging applied linguistics and discusses how to break barriers that exist between language and data; the aim to make it easier for the financial industry (including regulators) to communicate - for the benefit of all investors. Unconventional in the cross-disciplinary pairing of applied linguistics and financial services, it is practical and intuitive in pursuing solutions. While focused on financial services, the approach is relevant for other industries that have similar challenges.



Straight Through Processing for Financial Services

Author : Ayesha Khanna

Publisher : Academic Press

Page : 265 pages

File Size : 11,79 MB

Release : 2010-08-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0080554849

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As economic and regulatory pressures drive financial institutions to seek efficiency gains by improving the quality of their trading processes and systems, firms are devoting increasing amounts of capital to maintaining their competitive edge. Straight-Through Processing (STP), which automates every step in the trading system, is the most effective way for firms to remain competitive. According to the Securities Industry Association, the US securities industry will spend $8 billion to implement STP initiatives, and 99% percent of this investment will be made in systems internal to the firm. Straight-Through Processing for Financial Services: The Complete Guide 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.* Learn the tools and techniques for developing software systems and for streamlining business processes* Keep up to date and well informed in this highly regulated and ever changing market* Gain the knowledge and experience for a leading consultant in the field



Mastering Options

Author : Philip Cooper

Publisher : Business Expert Press

Page : 98 pages

File Size : 45,92 MB

Release : 2022-12-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1637422598

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Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Investors is essential reading for beginners to the world of options. It explains the essentials of option and hedging strategies that will empower you to earn attractive profits. Primarily aimed at undergraduates and retail investors, it opens the door to a world of unlimited profits with limited risk. In concise language, augmented by relevant graphics, the key trading tools available to investors using online option trading platforms, are explained in detail. Chapter by chapter, this book builds up a complete understanding of the essential building blocks of options investing, including covering key charting techniques using technical analysis tools. Here’s what you learn from Mastering Options: The characteristics of an option. Types of options and common terms. The underlying principles of options investing. Insights into why you should invest in options. Option strategies that consistently make profits whilst managing risk exposure. Case studies illustrating each strategy. This book exposes the myth that investing in financial options is an impenetrable mystery.



The Corporate Executive’s Guide to General Investing

Author : Paul Mladjenovic

Publisher : Business Expert Press

Page : 138 pages

File Size : 36,78 MB

Release : 2022-03-24

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1637421974

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Successful corporate executives face unique investing challenges, because their personal wealth is irrevocably tied to their company’s performance, normal market ups and downs, and even unexpected events. An executive’s investment portfolio may consist mostly of employer stock and stock options that are governed by rules the executive doesn’t know about and can’t control. And the executive also faces a variety of other financial landmines, ranging from taxes to corporate pension shortfalls. So the forward-thinking corporate executive badly needs effective financial management and investing strategies to build a financially secure future, designed with the special needs of a corporate executive in mind. That is what this guide will provide: the essence of what investments and investing strategies the executive should consider employing to achieve financial independence sooner, rather than later. The audience for this investing guide includes C-suite executives, middle managers, and those in supervisory positions with executive responsibilities or aspirations. It will also be useful for MBA students, those in executive education seminars, and others who are planning corporate careers. This book will teach the executive reader: How to set the proper goals before investing How to maximize corporate resources for your investing goals How to understand and choose from the different types of investments, including bank investments, stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), venture capital investments, real estate investments, and alternative investments. How design an effective portfolio strategy for an executive’s situation



What They Do With Your Money

Author : Stephen Davis

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 45,3 MB

Release : 2016-05-24

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0300223811

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Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren’t told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance industry does a good job, but as this book shows, it too often fails us. Financial institutions regularly place their business interests first, charging for advice that does nothing to improve performance, employing short-term buying strategies that are corrosive to building long-term value, and sometimes even concealing both their practices and their investment strategies from investors. In their previous prizewinning book, The New Capitalists, the authors demonstrated how ordinary people are working together to demand accountability from even the most powerful corporations. Here they explain how a tyranny of errant expertise, naive regulation, and a misreading of economics combine to impose a huge stealth tax on our savings and our economies. More important, the trio lay out an agenda for curtailing the misalignments that allow the financial industry to profit at our expense. With our financial future at stake, this is a book that analysts, economists, policy makers, and anyone with a retirement nest egg can’t afford to ignore.



Market Players

Author : Gail Rolland

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 369 pages

File Size : 34,81 MB

Release : 2011-10-04

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119990378

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The global financial markets are not just driven by the big investment houses and fund managers. Along with these, private banks, insurance houses, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and a range of boutique investment managers, regional institutions and brokers of different sizes and nationalities all operate and interact to form the bedrock of the global financial infrastructure. Because of this, it is essential that practitioners and observers of the markets fully understand the linkages, objectives and functions of these institutions, and the new and dynamic environment they are working in. Market Players provides a complete roadmap to the institutions and intermediaries operating in today's global financial landscape, illustrating what they are, how they work, how they interact and importantly, their motivation. It explains the core financial market business of these institutions and considers how they have become the firms that we see today, providing readers with a clear understanding of which market sectors are likely to see the most involvement from the different types of institution and, importantly, why they are involved in these market areas. Key features include: a series of case studies looking at examples of some of these institutions including an explanation of the EIB and the UK agency UKFI. They also look at the financial crisis and the impact on AIG and Northern Rock, two institutions that clearly illustrate what can go wrong and how the other market players have to step in when this happens. an international perspective looking at representative institutions from Europe, Asia and North America, showing global similarities and differences. a Post Financial Crisis perspective on the structure of international banks in today's markets. coverage of the major players on both the buy and sell side of the market Written in plain English, Market Players is an accessible and much needed guide to financial institutions, equipping readers with the knowledge to better understand how the global financial markets really work.



Understanding the Markets

Author : David Loader

Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 27,11 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780750654654

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"As the markets undergo change so too do the administration, clearing and settlement functions, as the clearing houses, securities depositories and custodians merge and diversify. This is going to impact on the operations teams that support the trading, sales and retail business. A failure to be aware of and to understand the impact of changes in the markets will create massive problems, greater risk and ultimately financial losses. And yet the sheer size and diversity of the global markets, together with the rapid pace of change and expansion, and the increasing volume of transactions needing to be processed, present a massive challenge to operations teams and managers."--BOOK JACKET.



Non-financial Risk Management in the Financial Industry

Author : Norbert Gittfried

Publisher : Frankfurt School Verlag

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 45,22 MB

Release : 2022-04-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3956471903

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Book Description

Managing environment, social and governance (ESG) risk, compliance risk and non-financial risk (NFR) has become increasingly critical for businesses in the financial services industry. Furthermore, expectations by regulators are ever more demanding, while monetary sanctions are being scaled up. Accordingly, ESG, Compliance and NFR risk management requires sophistication in various aspects of a risk management system. This handbook analyses a major success factor necessary for meeting the requirements of modern risk management: an institution-specific target operating model (TOM) – integrating strategy, governance & organisation, risk management, data architecture and cultural elements to ensure maximum effectiveness. Also, institutions need to master the digital transformation for their business model to be sufficiently sustainable for the years to come. This book will offer ways on how to achieve just that. The book has been written by senior ESG, Compliance and NFR experts from key markets in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. It gives practitioners the necessary guidance to master the challenges in today's global risk environment. Each chapter covers key regulatory requirements, major implementation challenges as well as both practical solutions and examples.



English for the financial sector. Student's book audio-CD

Author : I. E. Mackenzie

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 49,32 MB

Release : 2008

Category : English language

ISBN : 9783125342736

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Book Description

Providing at least 50 hours of classroom material, this course builds financial language and teaches students about key financial concepts. It also focuses on the communication skills necessary for working effectively within the industry. It covers a wide range of financial topics, including retail and investment banking, accounting, trade finance, and mergers and acquisitions.



The New Financial Deal

Author : David Skeel

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 243 pages

File Size : 18,5 MB

Release : 2010-11-29

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1118014928

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The good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall Street The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century. In The New Financial Deal, author David Skeel offers an in-depth look at the new financial reforms and questions whether they will bring more effective regulation of contemporary finance or simply cement the partnership between government and the largest banks. Details the goals of the legislation, and reveals that how they are handled could dangerously distort American finance, making it more politically charged, less vibrant, and further removed from basic rule of law principles Provides an inside account of the legislative process Outlines the key components of the new law To understand what American financial life is likely to look like in five, ten, or twenty years, and how regulators will respond to the next crisis, we need to understand Dodd-Frank. The New Financial Deal provides that understanding, breaking down both what Dodd-Frank says and what it all means.