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Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial institutions, powerful states and capital markets in... more...
Islamic Finance
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 185.00Given the propensity of the world financial system to crisis, this book explores the radical alternative put forward by Islamic (and Western) theories of non-interest banking. The Islamic critique of interest and early experiments with non-interest banking are assessed against the conventional theories regarding banking, company finance and macroeconomic... more...
The Art of Better Retail Banking
Wiley 2005; US$ 90.00"This new book on retail banking is both readable and innovative. Its analysis is unusually accessible in its style, and the book's conclusions and predictions will be rightly thought provoking. The customer is gaining real power and this new book's insights on the importance of leadership, the need to unleash creativity and to make a bank's IT and... more...
Thirty Years of Islamic Banking
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 125.00This text explains how Islamic banking works and what it offers as an alternative model of financial intermediation. Important questions addressed include: Why Islamic banking started and where it is going? Who are the main players at present and whom it will attract in future? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Will Islamic banks survive in highly... more...
Islamic Banking And Finance In South-east Asia
World Scientific Publishing Company 2006; US$ 36.40To truly understand the current interest in the development of Islamic banking and finance in South-East Asia, and how it is different from the conventional banking system, the author believes one must firstly understand the religious relationship originating from the Qur?an, and then trace the historical geographic and political developments of Islam... more...
Banking and Financial Systems in the Arab World
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 145.00This book provides state-of-the art analysis of banking and financial systems in the Arab world. The early chapters of the text present an overview of Arab economies linking banking and financial sector trends in the Arab world over the last twenty years. The rest of the text examines in detail the financial systems of the major Arab countries, focusing... more...
Banking for Family Business
Springer 2005; US$ 109.99What is Banking for Family Business? What's special about it? How does the Family Banker contribute to the creation of value for entrepreneur families? The book covers a wide spectrum of topics: it investigates the ways family bankers really work, the relations between private banking and corporate banking, the trends of the market in Europe and USA,... more...
Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 54.99This work is intended to lay out, in a clear and intuitive as well as comprehensive way, what we know - or think we know - about mergers and acquisitions in the financial services sector. It evaluates their underlying drivers, factual evidence as to whether or not the basic economic concepts and strategic precepts are correct. more...
Handbook of Islamic Banking
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 60.00The Handbook of Islamic Banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. From its origins thirty years ago, Islamic banking has expanded rapidly to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the international... more...
Naked Among Cannibals
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 27.22An insider's story of how Australian banks have lost the trust and respect of their customers by relentlessly pursuing profits. more...









