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The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of finance, investment, and banking
- Author
- Banks, Erik.
- Title
- The Palgrave Macmillan dictionary of finance, investment, and banking / Erik Banks.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Description
- xxxi, 565 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018807383&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
- Portion of title
- Dictionary of finance, investment, and banking
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 564-565).
- Summary
- Compiled by a finance professional with real-world experience on three continents, it is a highly practical reference book containing the essential terminology of today's international financial marketplace. It gives concise and clear definitions of well over 5,000 terms commonly used in the industry, covering the disciplines of accounting, banking, corporate finance, investment management and insurance. This dictionary includes: New terminology, reflecting developments following the global financial crisis; 'Hot topics' of Islamic finance, bank regulation, carbon/emissions trading, business law/bankruptcy and structured products; International coverage, with terminology used in Europe, Asia and the USA; Technical and non-technical terms, colloquialisms, acronyms and foreign language terms; and 190 essential formulae and 50 diagrams to aid understanding.
- Subject headings
- Finance--Dictionaries. Investments--Dictionaries. Banks and banking--Dictionaries.
- ISBN
- 9780230238299 0230238297