Personal Banking

In Banking Bad, Adele Ferguson traces the origins of the banking scandal to the early 1990s, when buckets of money began pouring into compulsory superannuation funds, set up by Labor Treasurer Paul Keating. Attracted by the increasing cash, banks devised corrupt and questionable practices to get their hands on funds, along with aggressive selling practices that ignored due diligence, trust and honesty.

Uninhibited. Sarcastic. Confident. Beautiful. With a thriving photography career that allows her to travel all over the world and capture the hottest of men behind her camera lens, Cassie Phillips is the woman who can't be tamed. Adrenaline junkie. Jokester. Billionaire. Hot as sin. At six-foot-five, with muscles for days and that perfect, playful smile, Thatcher Kelly is the kind of man you don't want to deny. Wild for wild. Prank for prank. The two most unlikely of people may be the only ones to see that some personality traits only run skin deep.

In the constantly evolving world of finance, a solid technical foundation is an essential tool for success. Until the welcomed arrival of authors Josh Rosenbaum and Josh Pearl, no one had taken the time to properly codify the lifeblood of the corporate financier's work - namely, valuation, through all of the essential lenses of an investment banker. With the release of Investment Banking, Third Edition, Rosenbaum and Pearl once again have created the definitive guide that they wish had existed when they were trying to break into Wall Street. 

One of the most lucrative fields in business, investment banking frequently perplexes even banking professionals working within its complex laws. Investment Banking For Dummies remedies common misconceptions with a straightforward assessment of banking fundamentals. Written by experts in stock market proceedings, this book runs parallel to an introductory course in investment banking.

Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation and catapult it towards euphoric highs. With a few keystrokes, the Fed can conjure up trillions of dollars and fund virtually unlimited Federal spending. And with a few poor decisions, the Fed can plunge the entire world into a recession. The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and also one of the most difficult to understand.

Wes Lancaster has always followed one guideline for play. He never gets involved with anyone working for his professional football team, the New York Mavericks. It hasn't been a hard rule to live by - until Winnie Winslow, the new take-no-shit team physician. She's beautiful, intelligent - and has no problem taking control of every situation. She pisses him off. She turns him on. As tension builds and desire heightens, Wes finds himself wondering how much longer he'll be able to follow his game plan.

Bloomsbury presents Private Equity written and read by Carrie Sun. A TIME MUST-READ FOR 2024 ‘A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one's soul’ Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks What are you willing to sacrifice to...

Becoming Your Own Banker - The Infinite Banking Concept is a text about the power of dividend-paying whole life insurance. This book demonstrates that your need for finance, during your lifetime, is much greater than your need for protection. Solve for this need through this instrument and you will end up with more life insurance than the companies will issue on you. It is not a sales tool for life insurance agents.

Taking time to understand banks and banking vocabulary can help you as a buyer or seller. It also helps with educating on the process, eliminating confusion, and get better prepared for swift and smooth financial transactions of any kind. This banking glossary compiles a list of over 150 most common banking terms you're likely to encounter. Every financial banking term is explained in detail, with clear and concise article style description and practical examples.

You make a good salary, and you're putting away savings that barely keeps up with the cost of living. You need a professional, trustworthy team to build your passive income cash flow. In The Wealth Elevator: Real estate syndications, accredited investor banking, and tax strategies for first-gen millionaires, real estate investor and fund manager Lane Kawaoka shows you how to ascend the investment floors to financial freedom.

Whether you're an investor, advisor, or steward of family wealth, Investing Through the Storm is a modern guide for navigating today’s increasingly unpredictable financial landscape. Drawing on decades of experience, Martin Pelletier challenges conventional thinking and provides a...

Drawing on 40 years of experience, Michael Mauboussin reveals the 10 key attributes of successful investors. He emphasizes the benefits of practical abilities like numeracy and balancing risk versus reward, as well as the importance of behavioral qualities like assessing strategy, thinking...

It’s time to once again pull back the curtain on the world of investment, with personal finance stories from the people who shape the markets. In How I Invest My Money: Volume Two, Brian Portnoy spotlights a new group of financial experts – from portfolio managers and financial advisors to...

What would Wall Street's most successful investors tell their own family and closest friends about money? In Investment Wisdom For Our Friends And Loved Ones, 25 seasoned finance professionals open up about what they tell their closest friends and family when they are asked about investing...

Are you looking for a way to overcome your financial worries by discovering fool-proof strategies for saving money and starting your own business? As long as you have money, as long as you earn money, and your family members rely on your for financial support, you are bound to face a financial crisis at one point or another! This is pretty much an unavoidable truth of life. What you can do, though, is immediately start to smart save your money and invest them in a business to ensure a safe and secure future and prepare yourself for unforeseen emergencies to the best of your abilities.

So, you want to be an investment banker, huh? Well, you're looking in the right place. This is the only book on the market that guides you right through the process from where and when to apply, to the most likely interview questions and even how to impress your boss from day one ensuring you keep that job.

In Family Banking with Purpose: A Story About Financial Freedom Through Infinite Banking, Rick is in the same situation. He’s fighting the headwind of a financial system that’s not designed to help him be successful. Though he and his wife do the best they can with their money based on what they know, they are falling short of their goals - until Rick’s grandfather shows him a way to rapidly eliminate debt, create cash-flow freedom, and build a family legacy.

Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations. These new technological advancements have facilitated the rapid emergence of digital banking firms and FinTech companies, leading to established banks being forced to swiftly increase their pace of digital adoption.

That statistic above—10 percent of the population owns almost 70 percent of the wealth in America—it’s not just some made-up number copied off some random site.

This book spells out what global banks intend to do with our savings during the next banking crisis. Americans, including ourselves, feel that when we put our money in our local bank, the money we put in is ours. Not anymore! Once the teller takes your money and gives you the deposit slip, it becomes the bank's money. Chapter one explains the new rules that we all must live with as of November 2014.