Modern Financial Markets and Institutions: A Practical Perspective, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (4 September 2012) © 2013

  • Glen Arnold Salford University
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Modern Financial Markets and Institutions provides a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the workings of modern financial systems, the efficiency of money markets and the role of investment bankers, illustrating how they impact our everyday lives.

By drawing on numerous real-world examples, this text is essential reading for students of banking, finance, investment, business studies and economics. It will be invaluable for those looking to entering banking, insurance, fund management and other financial services industries.

Table of contents

  1. 1 The value of the financial system
  2. 2 Banking: retail and corporate
  3. 3 Investment banking and other banking
  4. 4 Insurance, pensions and collective investments
  5. 5 Money markets
  6. 6 Bond markets
  7. 7 Central banking
  8. 8 Equity markets
  9. 9 Raising share capital
  10. 10 Futures markets
  11. 11 Options and swaps
  12. 12 Foreign exchange markets
  13. 13 Trade, shipping, commodities and gold
  14. 14 Hedge funds and private equity
  15. 15 Regulation of the financial sector
  16. 16 The financial crisis

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