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"Every day, businesses, investors, and consumers are grappling with the seismic changes technology has brought to the banking and finance industry. The Money Hackers is the dramatic story of fintech's major players and explores how these disruptions are transforming even money itself. Whether you've heard of fintech or not, it's already changing your life. Have you ever "Venmoed" someone? Do you think of investing in Bitcoin--even though you can't...
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"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer...
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If you've ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a radio show about getting out of debt, or attended a seminar to help you plan for your retirement, you've probably heard some version of these quotes: "What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases, it is simply a lack of belief." -SUZE ORMAN, The Courage to Be Rich; "Are you latte-ing away your financial future?" -DAVID BACH, Smart Women Finish...
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The Sandy Weill story is truly one for the ages. Starting with $30,000 in borrowed cash in 1960, and relying on uncanny entrepreneurial instincts in the corporate world, he made himself a billionaire and became one of the most powerful bankers in the world. After rising to become the president of American Express, Weill saw his empire crash and burn. Undaunted, he started over with a second-tier consumer loan company called Commercial Credit, which...
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Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, shares the epic inside story of how a working-class kid from the Nebraska prairie took on Wall Street's clubby brokerage business, busted it open, and walked away a billionaire.
Joe Ricketts always had the gift of seeing what others missed. The son of a house builder, he started life as a part-time janitor, but by the age of thirty-three he saw the chance to challenge the big brokerage firms by offering Americans...
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The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution
What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d'etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the venerable and-until recently-most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the...
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"The United States has two separate banking systems today -- one serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks contributes to the growing conversation on American inequality by highlighting one of its prime causes: unequal credit. Mehrsa Baradaran examines how a significant portion of the population, deserted by banks, is forced to wander through a Wild West of payday lenders and check-cashing services to cover...
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Becoming a Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money--as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. This is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer, spent...
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Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Themen Digitalisierung, Regulierung und dem Niedrigzinsumfeld sowie deren jeweilige Auswirkungen auf den Sektor der Regionalbanken. Mit diesem Buch werden die aktuellen Entwicklungen und Rahmenparameter zusammenfassend dargestellt. Zudem werden Handlungsempfehlungen dafür gegeben, wie sich Regionalbanken hinsichtlich der aktuellen Entwicklungen noch besser operativ und strategisch ausrichten können. Um den aktuellen...
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Michael Deeken und Tobias Fuchs plädieren in diesem essential für die Einführung bzw. Nutzung eines Agilen Managements. Die Autoren gehen davon aus, dass sich positive Effekte der Digitalisierung erst entfalten können, wenn in den betreffenden Unternehmen zuvor die entsprechenden Herausforderungen gemeistert wurden. Insbesondere Banken müssen sich fragen, wie sie den Anschluss bewältigen können, um von ihrer bisherigen Logik der Automatisierung...
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Dieses Buch beschreibt die Situation der Banken nach der Veröffentlichung der MaRisk und BAIT Ende 2017. Das Jahrzehnt nach der Wirtschaftskrise hat pragmatische Lösungen bei der Datenverarbeitung notwendig gemacht. Die Aufsicht versucht nun, vorhandene und zukünftige Individuallösungen durch entsprechende Anforderungen sicherer zu machen. Dieses Buch zeigt den aktuellen Status, die Anforderungen, aber auch mögliche Lösungsstrategien auf.
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This book highlights the importance of Financial Inclusion Growth and Governance, inalienably linked to each other and integral to fostering financial stability. Rapid Financial Inclusion will lead India to a trajectory of exponential economic growth with Equity allowing India to take its rightful place in the comity of nations and to take a leadership role in South and South East Asia and the world. This is a collection of speeches and writings of...
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Dieses essential ist fokussiert auf die praktischen Auswirkungen des Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetzes (BRSG) im mittelständischen Unternehmen. Die bAV-Entscheider in den Unternehmen werden in die Lage versetzt, sich in einem komplexen Thema in einer neuen Rechtssituation aus Arbeitgebersicht zurechtzufinden. Am Ende der unumgänglichen fachlichen Erläuterungen stehen möglichst einfach anzuwendende Praxistipps – eine wichtige Hilfestellung bei...
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La presente obra se fundamenta en la importancia de los capítulos y temas seleccionados y tratados con una metodología y lenguaje apropiado, resultado de la experiencia académica y empresarial de sus autores. De esta manera, se combinan una cobertura profunda de los principios financieros y la investigación, y se ponen de relieve las aplicaciones prácticas. Asimismo, orienta al lector para el inicio de un nuevo negocio.
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Dieses Buch bietet der Finanzdienstleistungsbranche eine umfassende Gesamtschau der deutschen Altersvorsorgesysteme. Vor dem Hintergrund der Niedrigzinsphase und der demografischen Entwicklung unterziehen Dr. Heinz Benölken und Nils Bröhl sie einer kritischen Detailbewertung im Hinblick auf ihre Leistungsfähigkeit. Die Autoren analysieren dazu ausführlich relevante Altersvorsorgeszenarien und die Eignung und Vorsorgequalität der in Deutschland...
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From a veteran of the trade, a provocative and entertaining voyage into the turbulent heart of modern money that sheds new light on the rise of our threatening and complicated financial system, how money became our adversary, and why finding a new course is crucial to a healthy society
In the not too distant past, money was simple. You might have had a bank account and a mortgage, perhaps
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Is an investors' "perfect storm" brewing? If you're not careful, it could sweep your wealth away. Long-dormant inflation looks to be catching fire. A stock market in overdrive may crash and burn for years. And taxes to fund deficits and social programs look to be rising to punishing levels not seen in a generation. This triple threat could mean a financial apocalypse from which many investors won't ever recover.
Getting straight talk on smart wealth...
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"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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The Complete Credit Care ™ Program is one of the most important books you'll ever read.
It will show you how to break out the viscous high interest credit cycle that costs most Americans hundreds of thousands of dollars in their lives. Most people don't realize how much just a few dollars extra payment every month adds up over a lifetime. This book will show you how (bringing up your credit score 100 points) will change your life forever. Huge...
20) Personal Financial Planning for Executives and Entrepreneurs: The Path to Financial Peace of Mind
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Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single, easy-to-understand formula. Designed to emphasize the importance of effective, targeted financial planning, this book begins by telling a story about a fictional, but plausible, power couple and their family who (spoiler alert!) do pretty much everything wrong in securing their financial future. In most cases, they don't do the things...
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