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This book is a practical guide to the evolving landscape of finance, highlighting how it's changing our relationship with money and how financial technology, together with macroeconomic and societal change, is rewriting the story of how business is done in developing economies. Financial services companies are trying to become more customer focused, but struggling to help huge customer segments, particularly in developing economies. Alternative financial models and tools are emerging, which are being embraced by consumers and incumbents.

Fleeced: Canadians Versus Their Banks is a stunning exposé of the inner workings of our six major banks, demonstrating how they are set up to avoid competing with one another, squeeze their customers, evade risk, stifle innovation, and produce staggering profits that enrich bank executives and shareholders.

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations – and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen. 'Packed with insights and details that will both...

If you had purchased $100 worth of Bitcoins in the middle of 2009 and held onto those coins until August 2017, you would have turned that $100 into more than $8,000,000. The lucrative world of cryptocurrency no longer has to be a mystery. This book will shock you. Secret strategies are revealed. Discover what cryptocurrency is all about and how to make a lot of money investing and trading in them.

In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs - in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries - use to defraud companies for their personal gain.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty.

An essential look at technology and the future of finance from Baxter Hines, cofounder of Honeycomb Digital Investments. 

経済人・金融関係者必携！日経新聞編集委員が描く、激動の20年史。バブル崩壊、不良債権、追い貸し、合併というどん底の時代に、経営陣はいかに苦闘し、どう行動してきたのか？メガバンク誕生、長信銀の消滅、規制緩和、その背景・功罪とは？私たちは今、どう銀行と付き合うべきか？銀行とはどんなところで、何を考え、どう行動しているのか、よく知っている人は少ないのではないだろうか。「銀行業とは何か」「銀行は安全なのか」という疑問に答え、これから銀行とどう付き合うべきかを考えるヒントを提供するのが本書の狙いだ。

You've worked hard. You've saved and invested. You did everything “the pros” said and wonder: Why can't I keep my head above water and why am I still struggling? The answer is simple: You've been lied to...we’ve been lied to. The Bitcoin Heir Next Door is a game changer for a world drowning in debt. You’ll love this unique and entertaining book on wealth and happiness because it’s real.

Bobby C. Lee, one of the earliest pioneers in the cryptocurrency space, debunks myths and dispels fears that surround Bitcoin, arguing that this rational, logical system is superior to traditional monetary systems. He cites signs of Bitcoin's widening acceptance: a growing community of users worldwide and multiple initiatives for investing in and holding Bitcoin among major financial services organizations and institutional investors who control trillions in assets. Lee offers a primer on the best strategies for investing in this digital currency.

Why is a printed piece of paper worth anything? How can a coin be worth more or even less than the number stamped on it? Why is digital money real money? How can money be worth more or less than it was yesterday? Since the emergence of debit and credit cards, many of us pay little mind to our finances and hardly think of money anymore. But currency, whether by cash or debit, is the driving force of our lives. We trust the system, even though we don't fully understand it. With History of Money: Financial History: From Barter to "Bitcoin" you'll learn all the basics.

Dem Bankberater gezeigt, wie das Geschäft geht... Legen Sie Ihr Geld noch bei der Bank an? Dann wissen Sie auch, dass die Zinsen nicht mal für ein schickes Essen mit der Familie reichen. Diese Erfahrung machte auch Christian Thiel. Und wendete sich daraufhin der Börse zu. Psychologischer Berater, der er ist, weiß er mit dem "Angstgegner Aktie" umzugehen: Kurzweilig erzählt er in "Schatz ich habe den Index geschlagen!", weshalb Anleger so oft aufs falsche Pferd setzen und wie sie fatale Denkfehler vermeiden können.

Über Geld spricht man nicht. Schon gar nicht im Zusammenhang mit Lebenssinn. Nach wie vor tabuisiert, wird Geld in unserer Gesellschaft immer noch häufig als schmutzig angesehen. Wer reich ist, gilt als Protzer oder Betrüger, und wer viel Geld haben will, wird als gierig gebrandmarkt. Dabei ist Geld zunächst einmal völlig wertfrei betrachtet ein neutrales Tauschmittel. Was das Problem noch verschärft: Weder in der Schule noch später lernen wir, Geld wirklich zu verstehen.

Das Hörbuch zum Spiegel-Bestseller Blockchain 2.0 ungekürzt und gelesen vom Autor Dr. Julian Hosp. Was wäre, wenn deine Daten absolut sicher und unhackbar gespeichert werden könnten? Mittlerweile sind »Bitcoin« und »Kryptowährungen« in aller Munde – doch hinter dem Begriff...

A Crisis of Beliefs makes us rethink the financial crisis and the nature of economic risk. In this authoritative and comprehensive book, two of today's most insightful economists reveal how our beliefs shape financial markets, lead to expansions of credit and leverage, and expose the economy to major risks.   

Blockchain technology could affect governance itself by supporting new organizational structures that promote more democratic and participatory decision making. Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright acknowledge this potential and urge the law to catch up. That is because disintermediation - a blockchain's greatest asset - subverts critical regulation. By cutting out middlemen, such as online operators and multinational corporations, blockchains run the risk of undermining the capacity of governmental authorities to supervise activities in banking, commerce, law, and other vital areas.

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.

In The Little Book of Robo Investing, a pair of long-time investors and founding team members at the award-winning online investment platform Wealthfront deliver a fun, invaluable, and simple roadmap to making your money make money. You'll learn how to start investing with the easy, automated, and low-cost strategies that robo investment advisors have made super accessible to everyday people.

El 1 de noviembre de 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto anunció que estaba trabajando en un nuevo sistema de dinero que no precisaba de un tercero de confianza. Se trataba del sistema Bitcoin, una red de pago con su propia moneda autóctona que utilizaba un sofisticado método para que los miembros pudieran verificar todas las transacciones sin tener que confiar en ningún componente de la red. Bitcoin automatiza las funciones de un moderno banco central, y las convierte en predecibles y prácticamente inmutables mediante la programación de un código descentralizado entre miles de miembros de la red.

In 1986, the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into Michael Milken, Drexel Burnham Lambert, and its High Yield and Convertible Bond Department, a department Michael created and was head of. Michael was the most successful and innovative financier of his time. Drexel, an upstart investment bank was also the most successful securities firm on Wall Street, thanks to Michael.