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An Introduction to Global Financial Markets

Autor Stephen Valdez, Philip Molyneux
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 oct 2015

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to finance and financial markets around the world. Requiring no previous knowledge of the subject, the authors comprehensively cover a broad range of different types of banking, markets, foreign exchange and derivative products. Incorporating recent events and current developments in finance, contemporary, international examples are used throughout to illustrate this fast-moving subject area. With Stephen Valdez's decades of experience as a financial trainer and Philip Molyneux's academic experience, they are the perfect team for this accessible and applied textbook.

This textbook is core reading for second and third year undergraduate students studying modules in financial markets and institutions as part of business and management degree courses. In addition it is suitable for use on MBA finance courses.

New to this Edition:
- Provides updated and expanded coverage of the global financial crisis of 2007-08 and its aftermath
- Explains and contextualises the major structural and regulatory reforms of global banking and financial markets
- A new design to make it more student-friendly, such as illustrative boxes that explain key financial issues

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137497550
ISBN-10: 1137497556
Pagini: 554
Ilustrații: 1 b/w tables, 51 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 189 x 189 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Hot topics such as shadow banking and quantitative easing, structural and regulatory reform of global banking and financial markets and computerized trading are covered, ensuring that students remain up-to-date

Notă biografică

Stephen Valdez is a retired financial trainer and consultant and is the former Director of Profile Financial Training Plc. He formed Valdez Financial Training in 1985 to provide simple introductory courses on financial markets. The courses were used around the world by major banks, financial institutions, software houses and information providers. The company was later sold to The Financial Training Co. Ltd. with Stephen Valdez acting as consultant. Professor Philip Molyneux is Head of Bangor Business School, Professor in Banking and Finance and Director of the Institute of European Finance at Bangor University, UK. He previously held the Special Chair of Financial Services and Financial Conglomerates at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and was Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He has published a variety of texts on banking areas and acted as a consultant to New York Federal Reserve Bank, the World Bank, the European Commission, the UK Treasury, Citibank Private Bank, Bermuda Commercial Bank, McKinsey& co, Credit Suisse and various other international banks and consulting firms.

Cuprins

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The Money Merry-go-round PART II: BANKING 2. Banking Background 3. The Role of the Central Bank 4. Commercial Banking 5. Investment Banking 6. Regulation PART III: SECURITIES MARKETS AND INVESTMENT COMPANIES 7. The Money and Bond Markets 8. Equity Markets 9. Hedge Funds and Private Equity PART IV: FINANCIAL CRISIS 10. Financial Crisis PART V: FOREIGN EXCHANGE, EUROPE AND THE EUROZONE 11. Foreign Exchange 12. Europe and the Eurozone PART VI: DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS 13. Traded Options 14. Financial Futures 15. Other Derivative Products PART VII: Emerging and Growth-leading Economies (EAGLEs) 16. Emerging and Growth-leading Economies (EAGLEs) PART VIII: TRENDS IN THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS 17. Key Trends Glossary Index.

Descriere

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to finance and financial markets around the world. Requiring no previous knowledge of the subject, the authors comprehensively cover a broad range of different types of banking, markets, foreign exchange and derivative products. Incorporating recent events and current developments in finance, contemporary, international examples are used throughout to illustrate this fast-moving subject area. With Stephen Valdez's decades of experience as a financial trainer and Philip Molyneux's academic experience, they are the perfect team for this accessible and applied textbook.

This textbook is core reading for second and third year undergraduate students studying modules in financial markets and institutions as part of business and management degree courses. In addition it is suitable for use on MBA finance courses.

New to this Edition:
- Provides updated and expanded coverage of the global financial crisis of 2007-08 and its aftermath
- Explains and contextualises the major structural and regulatory reforms of global banking and financial markets
- A new design to make it more student-friendly, such as illustrative boxes that explain key financial issues