Banks & Banking

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

Consider the $20 bill. It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity....

The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people....

Enrich your career with a review of investment banking basics....

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....

Pyramid of Lies reveals the inside story of Lex Greensill's meteoric rise and fall, and the billion dollar scandal that ensnared David Cameron, SoftBank and Credit Suisse....

Tamal Bandyopadhyay chronicles HDFC Bank’s own digital disruption exercise through the very people who drove it, narrating a story that’s as compelling as unique in India’s financial system....

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank.... 

Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....

First published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth. A fundamental work in classical economics. The book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity, and free markets....

Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it.

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began....

Banking on It is the firsthand account of one woman's quest to rebuild Britain's broken banking system....

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution....

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....

Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama....

A riveting exposé of a permanent financial dystopia, its causes, and real-world consequences....

This account describes how a 28-year-old from Watford, Nick Leeson, plunged Barings Bank into ruin.... 

Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels....

In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

In the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the "Great Men" of Wall Street investment bank Lazard Frères & Co. jeopardized all they had built....

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs....

In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

Ce livre révèle toutes les ruses des institutions bancaires et donne des clés au lecteur pour protéger et faire fructifier son capital en évitant les pièges. Des exemples concrets et des mises en situation l'aideront à reconnaître les signes d'une possible duperie et, surtout, à faire respecter ses droits.

Von New-York-Times-Bestseller Jordan Belfort, der Hauptfigur des Kinohits The Wolf of Wall Street, erscheint nun endlich das Buch, auf das alle schon immer gewartet haben: sein lang erwartetes Manifest zum erfolgreichen Anlegen an der Börse. Und nichts weniger darf man erwarten: schonungslose Ehrlichkeit, die profitabelsten Lektionen des Lebens und eben alles, was Belfort selbst jemals über die Börse gelernt hat.

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a thriving metropolis, a powerhouse of global trade, and a city that stood at the centre of Mediaeval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of financial crisis, it was here that the foundations of modern banking were born. In Money and Promises, the distinguished financier, entrepreneur and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the fascinating, complex relationship between states and banks.

Pensateci. Qual è lo strumento che usate di più nella vita di tutti i giorni? No, non è lo spazzolino, né l’automobile, e nemmeno la moka. È qualcosa allo stesso tempo di immateriale e di tangibile, che può essere contenuto in un caveau gigantesco o in una piccola tasca, sotto forma di numeri binari o di cilindretti dorati. Qualcosa, soprattutto, che vi permette di accedere a cibo e medicine, concerti e gite fuori porta, libri e serie tv; salute e felicità.

New bank failures have been a rude awakening for everyone who believed that the banking industry was reformed after the Global Financial Crisis—and that we'd never again have to choose between massive bailouts and financial havoc. The Bankers' New Clothes uncovers just how little things have changed—and why banks are still so dangerous.