Financial Risk Management

Take the risk out of financial risk management Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing...

The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity...

There are crashes and then there are Crashes. But what turns an ordinary downturn into an era-defining crisis? What makes the difference between an event like the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and a brief bear market? The answer lies in financial...

Systematically secure your financial future-Dummies makes it easy Factor Investing For Dummies helps you go beyond the investment basics, with proven techniques for making informed and sophisticated investment decisions. Using factor investing, you'll...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591841272Author Daniel M. WeissFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Over the past two decades, the booming ecommerce and fintech industries have become a breeding ground for fraud. Organizations that conduct business online are constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with these invaders. In this practical book, Gilit...

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and...

This book addresses the questions of discrimination, vulnerable consumers, and financial inclusion in the light of the emerging legal, socioeconomic, and technological challenges. New technologies - such as artificial intelligence-driven consumer credit...

Post the Financial Crash, the role of regulation and the impact of regulation on all aspects of the financial industry has broadened and intensified. This book offers a comprehensive review of the operations of the industry post-financial crisis from a...

The importance of businesses being 'operationally resilient' is becoming increasingly important, and a driving force behind whether an organization can ensure that its valuable business operations can 'bounce back' from or manage to evade impactful...

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modelling techniques of quantitative risk management. Whether you are a financial risk analyst, actuary, regulator or student of quantitative finance, Quantitative Risk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060564148Author Maggie MaharFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 408g

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms...

Discover what demographics can tell us about the economy, markets, and the future In Demographics Unravelled, renowned Macro-Demographics expert Amlan Roy delivers an insightful and timely exploration of the impact that "people characteristics" have on...

A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope.Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544541068Author Tom BassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A better development and implementation framework for credit risk scorecards Intelligent Credit Scoring presents a business-oriented process for the development and implementation of risk prediction scorecards. The credit scorecard is a powerful tool for...

An introductory finance textbook for the healthcare industry We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called Valley of Death when seeking funding for their biotech start-ups. In Healthcare...

A remarkable look at how the growth, technology, and politics of high-frequency trading have altered global financial marketsIn today's financial markets, trading floors on which brokers buy and sell shares face-to-face have increasingly been replaced by...

Historically, security managers have tended to be sourced from either the armed forces or law enforcement. But the increasing complexity of the organisations employing them, along with the technologies employed by them, is forcing an evolution and...

Learn to effectively deliver business aligned cybersecurity outcomes In The CISO Evolution: Business Knowledge for Cybersecurity Executives, information security experts Matthew K. Sharp and Kyriakos "Rock" Lambros deliver an insightful and practical...

When the first rumblings of the coming financial crisis were heard in August 2007, three men who were never elected to public office suddenly became the most powerful men in the world. They were the leaders of the world's three most important central...

'A compelling guide for leaders grappling with the pandemic' Financial Times 'A remarkable book telling business leaders what to do when disaster strikes' The TimesAN INSPIRING STORY OF RESILIENT LEADERSHIP IN THE TOUGHEST OF TIMESLouai Al Roumani was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358623465Author Andrew TobiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Capitalize on the booming $1 trillion corporate loan market-a fully updated edition of the industry standard by the LSTAThis new edition of The Handbook of Loan Syndications and Trading addresses radical changes to the lending landscape caused by the...

One day, everything is going well; the next, disaster strikes. What do you do when every pillar is collapsing, every rule is being broken and chaos seems to be all around you?'Pessimism be damned. This man steered his bank through four years of a hellish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758256Author Roger LowensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

This advanced practical textbook deals with the issue of risk analysis, measurement and management in the shipping industry. It identifies and analyses the sources of risk in the shipping business and explores in detail the "traditional" and "modern"...

Financial services are an ever increasing part of the infrastructure of everyday life. From banking to credit, insurance to investment and mortgages to advice, we all consume financial services, and many millions globally work in the sector. Moreover,...

Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company...

Computational finance is increasingly important in the financial industry, as a necessary instrument for applying theoretical models to real-world challenges. Indeed, many models used in practice involve complex mathematical problems, for which an exact...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593421314Author Robin WigglesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Whether based on academic theories or machine learning strategies, all financial models are at the mercy of modeling errors that can be mitigated but not eliminated. Probabilistic ML technologies are based on a simple and intuitive definition of...

This book discusses the interplay of stochastics (applied probability theory) and numerical analysis in the field of quantitative finance. The stochastic models, numerical valuation techniques, computational aspects, financial products, and risk...

Welcome to the secretive club of modern hedge funds, where important players in the world of investing and capital markets have invested close to $4 trillion globally.If you're intrigued by the inner workings of hedge funds, investment techniques and...

A hands-on guide to navigating the new fuel markets Fuel Hedging and Risk Management: Strategies for Airlines, Shippers and Other Consumers provides a clear and practical understanding of commodity price dynamics, key fuel hedging techniques, and risk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544535968Author Shea Tate-Di DonnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Houndstooth PressPublisher Houndstooth PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

The long-awaited, comprehensive guide to practical credit risk modeling Credit Risk Analytics provides a targeted training guide for risk managers looking to efficiently build or validate in-house models for credit risk management. Combining theory with...

Lead through the crisis and prepare for recovery.As the Covid-19 pandemic is exacting its toll on the global economy, forward-looking organizations are moving past crisis management and positioning themselves to leap ahead when the worst is over. What...

Applying wisdom and avoiding foolishness are two sides of the same coin. Slipping away from either can lead to risky and uncertain situations. Luckily, author Alexander Ineichen has been collecting witticisms for thirty-five years that have made him...