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An Introduction to Global Financial Markets
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An Introduction to Global Financial Markets
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Description
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
Table of Contents
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.
Product details
| Published | 16 Sep 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 8th |
| Extent | 552 |
| ISBN | 9781137508331 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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