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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
RRP: £24.95£17.11A comprehensive and authoritative exploration of Bitcoin and its place in monetary history When a pseudonymous programmer introduced "a new electronic cash system that's fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party" to a small online mailing list in... -
All You Need To Know About The City by Christopher Stoakes 9780957494664
RRP: £12.95£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957494664Author Christopher StoakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Christopher Stoakes LtdPublisher Christopher Stoakes Ltd -
Understanding Payments: A Whistle-Stop Tour into What You Thought You Knew by Neira Jones 9781032631349
RRP: £34.99£32.69This is the book for professionals in the payments industry. Written in an engaging and accessible style, it enables new and experienced payments practitioners alike to understand the fundamentals of the various payment ecosystems, and to quickly get up... -
Money: From Bronze to Bitcoin, the True Story of a Made-up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
RRP: £10.99£7.57Humans invented money from nothing, so why can't we live without it? And why does no one understand what it really is? In this lively tour through the centuries, Jacob Goldstein charts the story of this paradoxical commodity, exploring where money came... -
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital-and How to Get It by Scott Kupor
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Worth far more than its cover price ... I wish I'd had it available to me when I was first looking for startup funding' -- Eric RiesEvery startup needs capital, and ambitious startups seek it on Sand Hill Road - Silicon Valley's dream street for... -
Investment Banking For Dummies by Matthew Krantz
RRP: £21.99£15.63Investment Banking For Dummies 2e will help readers to understand how investment bankers help governments and business organizations raise money by issuing bonds, stocks and other financial products. This book tracks to typical university courses on the... -
Blue Blood: Cazenove in the Age of Global Banking by Robert Pickering
RRP: £24.99£20.69Founded in 1823, Cazenove & Co. was the most prestigious stockbroking firm in the City of London, celebrated for its fabled placing power and for its unrivalled network of client relationships. Fiercely independent, the firm had always maintained a low... -
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
RRP: £16.99£12.28Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of... -
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 by Gregory Zuckerman 9780241309735
RRP: £12.99£9.34NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho'... -
Billion Dollar Whale: the bestselling investigation into the financial fraud of the century by Tom Wright 9781912854547
RRP: £10.99£7.57A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND FORTUNE MAGAZINE. The epic story of how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history. In 2015, rumours began circulating that billions of dollars had... -
Too Big to Jail: HSBC and the Banking Scandal of the Century by Chris Blackhurst
RRP: £10.99£7.76'Packed with insights and details that will both amaze and appal you' - Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland and Butler to the WorldFrom journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal... -
How to Be Good With Money by Eoin McGee
RRP: £17.99£12.95In today's economy, where one-job careers are increasingly a thing of the past, workplace benefits are increasingly hard to come by, and the achievement of major life goals - like buying a house or starting a family - often depends on your ability to... -
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby
RRP: £12.99£9.34From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon Musk was not in the auto industry. When it comes to... -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: £10.99£7.30'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan... -
BANKING ON IT: How I Disrupted an Industry and Changed the Way We Manage our Money Forever by Anne Boden
RRP: £10.99£8.02ONE WOMAN'S QUEST TO REBUILD BRITAIN'S BROKEN BANKING SYSTEM'If there was ever a business book suitable for TV adaptation, this is it' FTIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, the British banking industry had come to a standstill. Trust in the... -
Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity by Michael J. Howell
RRP: £54.99£49.36Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash... -
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking by Jonathan Law
RRP: £13.99£10.00With over 5,500--including 150 new--accessible entries, this sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This... -
Pyramid of Lies: The Prime Minister, the Banker and the Billion-Pound Scandal by Duncan Mavin 9781529088922
RRP: £10.99£8.02An epic true story of ambition, greed and hubris - the collapse of Greensill Capital is a billion pound scandal that shredded the reputation of a British Prime Minister.'The British version of Bad Blood . . . [but] better' - The Sunday Times'Terrific' -... -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780141995441
RRP: £12.99£9.34FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic' The Times... -
Future Money: Fintech, AI and Web3 by Ronit Ghose 9781398612761
RRP: £19.99£18.81Cryptocurrency. DeFi. Web3. Fintech. The Metaverse. AI. The future of money is here. The world of money is rapidly changing, but what does it all really mean? Exploring key developments such as blockchain, DeFi, AI and the metaverse, the book brings... -
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street by Jonathan A. Knee 9780470517345
RRP: £13.00£9.25"Entertainingly indiscreet . . . Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use."--Financial Times Investment bankers used to be known as respectful of their clients, loyal to their firms, and chary of the financial system that allowed them... -
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America by Daniel Schulman 9780451493545
RRP: £30.00£19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451493545Author Daniel SchulmanFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains: An Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and the Technology that Powers Them by Antony Lewis
RRP: £18.99£13.33#1 Best Seller in Investing Derivatives Understand Bitcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency with this clear and comprehensible guideLearn the history and basics of cryptocurrency and blockchains. There's a lot of information on cryptocurrency and... -
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market by Philip Augar
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A brilliantly readable account, based on exceptional access, of the transformation of the old Quaker bank into a hard-charging capitalist adventurer ... both a thriller and a reminder that business is fascinating because all human life is there' John... -
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year!'Will snare you in its web of deceit ... A brilliant investigative expose' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author 'Reads like a fast-paced John le Carre thriller, and never lets up' - New... -
The Fed Unbound: The Trouble with Government by Central Bank by Lev Menand
RRP: £11.99£8.25Do the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality? The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered banks. But over the years, the erosion of banking... -
Routledge Handbook of Financial Technology and Law by Iris Chiu
RRP: £39.99£36.71Financial technology is rapidly changing and shaping financial services and markets. These changes are considered making the future of finance a digital one.This Handbook analyses developments in the financial services, products and markets that are... -
Bank 4.0: Banking everywhere, never at a bank by Brett King 9789814771764
RRP: £19.99£14.68In the final book in the digital "BANK" series, Brett King tackles the topic of whether banks have a future at all in the emerging, technology embedded world of the 21st century. In 30-50 years when cash is gone, cards are gone and all vestiges of the... -
The Principles of Banking by Moorad Choudhry
RRP: £75.00£51.11A timely and robust discussion of responsible bank stewardship and practice. The Second Edition of The Principles of Banking offers banking professionals, regulators, and students from a variety of backgrounds an authoritative and practical discussion of... -
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World by Don Tapscott
RRP: £10.99£8.02'This book has had an enormous impact' Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft'Spectacular. Mind-blowing in its expansiveness and profundity' Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple'Iconic' Clay Christensen, author of The Innovator's DilemmaCryptocurrencies are... -
Rigged: The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed after Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System by Andy Verity
RRP: £25.00£18.55Rigged exposes a cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, upending the official story of the biggest scandal since the global financial crisis. It picks up where The Big Short leaves off, as the dark clouds of the financial crisis... -
Banking: A Very Short Introduction by John O. S. Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.70Banks are of central importance for economic growth, the allocation of capital, competitiveness, and financial stability. Propelled by technological advances in financial analysis and financial deregulation, the banking industry's investment played a key... -
Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain by Ian Fraser 9781780276045
RRP: £14.99£10.05This is the definitive account of the Royal Bank of Scotland scandal. For a few brief months in 2007 and 2009, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the largest bank in the world. Then the Edinburgh-based giant - having rapidly grown its footprint to 55... -
Bank of Dave: How I Took On the Banks by Dave Fishwick
RRP: £16.99£12.28This is the real story that inspired the Netflix film, Bank of Dave.Dave Fishwick is a self-made, straight-talking man from Burnley who hates the banks. Fed up with never-ending tales of greed and corruption, he sets out to prove that there is a... -
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976 by Aeron Davis
RRP: £16.99£12.48The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and... -
The Moorad Choudhry Anthology: Past, Present and Future Principles of Banking and Finance + Website by Moorad Choudhry
RRP: £73.00£50.41The definitive and timeless guide to the principles of banking and finance, addressing and meeting the challenges of competition, strategy, regulation and the digital age. Moorad Choudhry Anthology compiles the best of renowned author Professor Moorad... -
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy Geithner
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great DepressionOn 26 January, 2009, during the depths of the... -
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
RRP: £18.99£13.61William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from... -
Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition by Leda Glyptis
RRP: £29.99£27.87This book will resonate with anyone no matter where you reside on this journey, whether newbie or old guard. If you want to be part of this change, you need to understand all about the messy middle that Leda so expertly describes in this book. If you... -
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth
RRP: £10.99£8.02Best books of 2021, Financial Times'Grab some popcorn and take a front row seat, because Robin Wigglesworth has an astonishing story to tell you' Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up'A fascinating account of an investment revolution' Ian...