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The new reality in the new culture-driven environment we're living in today? We all need to be leaders. Rock then Roll: The Secrets of Culture-Driven Leadership is a roadmap to this new culture-driven world from one of North America's most respected CEOs. Culture-based leadership is essential to adopt innovative business strategies and exploit the creative power of disruptive ideas. Rock then roll! So in the new jungle, will you be Tarzan? Or will you get out of his way?

In Leading Through Uncertainty, Davis shares a concise set of smart, actionable leadership practices that leaders can use to navigate their businesses and teams through difficult times. These include focusing on honesty and transparency, motivating and inspiring employees, building an outstanding corporate reputation, paying attention to details, and more.

Delinquent takes listeners on a journey from Capital One’s headquarters to street corners in Detroit, kitchen tables in Sacramento, and other places where debt affects people's everyday lives. Uncovering the true costs of consumer credit to American families in addition to the benefits, investigative journalist Elena Botella—formerly an industry insider who helped set credit policy at Capital One—reveals the underhanded and often predatory ways that banks induce American borrowers into debt they can’t pay back.

In the early 2000’s, America was in the midst of an economic boom. Nowhere was the prosperity more evident than across metro Atlanta and Georgia’s thriving community banking industry. Georgia saw more new bank start-ups than almost any other US state between 1997 and 2007…and then suffered more bank failures than most states combined between 2008 and 2012. What happened? This book tells that story. At year-end 2012, the largest 1% of US banks controlled eighty six percent of American domestic deposits …which means that 99% of America’s 7,083 financial institutions held only ...

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. With his keen eye for detail, deep knowledge of banking and unparalleled storytelling ability, Bandyopadhyay recounts the journey of India’s most valued lender from a life cycle bank to a lifestyle bank.

The Federal Reserve is the most powerful central bank in the world. Without its central bank, America would be subject to devastating fluctuations in currency value and chronic economic instability. To stabilize the economy, the Fed adjusts interest rates and intervenes in the economy more directly when appropriate. According to most Fed observers, it as an impartial referee exercising its independence free from political interference in order to advance the best interests of America.

So, you want to be an investment banker, huh? Well, you're looking in the right place. This is the only book on the market that guides you right through the process from where and when to apply, to the most likely interview questions and even how to impress your boss from day one ensuring you keep that job.

The Great American Bank Robbery maps out in detail exactly how Washington social engineers and their accomplices reshaped banking regulations and housing policies and gutted time-tested underwriting standards that led to the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, one that has robbed American households of $14 trillion in net worth.

How do they work? A digital currency keeps running on a blockchain, which is a common record or report copied a few times over a system of PCs. The refreshed report is dispersed and made accessible to all holders of the cryptographic money. Each and every exchange made and the responsibility for single digital money available for use is recorded in the blockchain. The blockchain is controlled by "miners", who utilize effective PCs that count the exchanges. Their capacity is to refresh each time an exchange is made and furthermore guarantee the genuineness of data.

Have you ever been interested in investing in cryptocurrencies? Listen to this if you want to start even if you have zero experience! This audiobook explains everything you need to know about investing in cryptocurrency. Most people ask themselves, why should I invest in cryptocurrency? Which are the best cryptocurrencies to put in my portfolio? How can I store and buy them? Find answers to these and other questions that might be troubling you concerning investing in cryptocurrency.

If you've ever heard the word blockchain and have wondered to yourself what it is and how it works, or you've been seeing it pop up everywhere you go, from co-workers to articles to the news, then this book is for you. Download it now to learn about the exciting and innovative technology behind the renowned online currency system.

The president of the US is not a tax avoider because he is an especially fraudulent financier; he's a tax avoider because he is a wealthy man in a system premised on such deceit. Finance is an industry of sabotage. This book is a brilliant, intellectual detective story that traces the origins of financial sabotage, starting with the work of a prescient American economist who saw the capacity for banks and businesses to dissemble and profit as early as the 1920s.

You must have heard about Bitcoin, since it is one of the hot topics nowadays. It is a digital cryptocurrency developed by an anonymous individual that provides users with a level of anonymity they cannot find when using fiat currency. This audiobook is a comprehensive guide for you to understand the basic and advanced concepts of Bitcoin. It will help you know everything related to Bitcoin, investing in Bitcoin, Bitcoin security, Bitcoin for business, etc.

Prepárese para el examen de Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Parte I con confianza utilizando esta completa guía de estudio. Diseñada para ayudarle a dominar los conceptos fundamentales y las técnicas cuantitativas esenciales para los profesionales de la gestión de riesgos, esta guía cubre todos los temas clave y las áreas de conocimiento descritas en el programa del examen. En la sección "Fundamentos de la gestión de riesgos", explorará principios y prácticas clave. Los temas incluyen tipos básicos de riesgo, medición y herramientas de gestión, así como gobernanza del riesgo, ...

Als ein Whistleblower dem Rechercheteam der Süddeutschen Zeitung Tausende Kontodaten der Credit Suisse zuspielt, stoßen die Enthüllungsjournalisten Hannes Munzinger, Frederik Obermaier und Bastian Obermayer auf Diktatoren, Geheimdienstchefs, Könige, Kardinäle und ganz normale Superreiche. Sie alle deponierten Geld in der Schweiz, darunter Geld, das der Allgemeinheit gehört. Manche hatten es in ihren Ländern geraubt, andere wollten dafür keine Steuern zahlen.

The blockchain revolution has arrived and is here to stay! This audiobook, Blockchain: Uncovering Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, and the Future of Money, is an in-depth guide on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin. Discover all there is to know about the blockchain revolution! The intention of this audiobook is to give you a summary on the world of cryptocurrencies and to provide you with all of the basic information that you need.

Prepare for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) Exam Part I with confidence using this comprehensive study guide. Designed to help you master the foundational concepts and quantitative techniques essential for risk management professionals, this guide covers all the key topics and knowledge areas outlined in the exam syllabus. In the "Foundations of Risk Management" section, you'll explore key principles and practices. Topics include basic risk types, measurement, and management tools, as well as risk governance, corporate governance, and credit risk transfer mechanisms. You'll also study the ...

This book includes two manuscripts, Blockchain: Master the Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin: The Currency of the Future. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are fascinating, and if someone is able to do their own solving of the algorithmic puzzles and mining of the Bitcoin, there is even money to be made. However, as interesting as the idea of cryptocurrencies are, the ways blockchain technology will immeasurably alter the methods in which the world shares information are incredible.

Centrale banken zoals de Fed in de V.S. of de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) zijn sinds de kredietcrisis van 2007-2008 niet weg te slaan van de voorpagina’s van de kranten. Zij hebben in 2008 de wereldeconomie van een diepe depressie gered en zijn tot op de dag van vandaag de instellingen die de economieën en financiële markten overeind houden. Kortom, ze zijn zeer belangrijk. Ze zijn echter ook black boxes: heel weinig mensen weten wat die instellingen doen, waarom ze doen wat ze doen en hóe ze doen wat ze doen.

Investment in financial technology is booming at unprecedented rates. Despite traditional banking protests, the world of banking is going through a transformation and will continue to go through a change. With all the new technology that we have today, it is almost mind-blowing to think about the kind of technology that we will have in another ten years or so. The change is going to keep coming, the only thing we can do is get on board with it.