Banking & Financial Markets
Would you like to learn more about banking and financial markets? In this category you will find eBooks introducing the most important subjects. For example: Foreign Exchange Markets, Bond Market and Money Market.
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Investments: An Introduction
This introductory book covers the lifestyle choices faced by the individual over his/her life, and the nuts and bolts and principles of investments.
Banking: An Introduction
This book presents an introduction to private sector banking (as opposed to central banking).
Financial System: An Introduction
This book covers the 6 elements of the financial system: lenders & borrowers; financial intermediaries, markets, and instruments; money creation; and price discovery.
Foreign Exchange Market: An Introduction
In this book all aspects of the forex market are covered: organisational structure, cross rates, spreads, quotation conventions, role and other relevant issues.
Equity Market: An Introduction
This book covers all aspects of the equity market including its context, instruments, investors, primary & secondary markets, and valuation.
Derivative Markets: An Introduction
Forwards, futures, swaps, options, hybrids (such as swaptions and options on futures) and a category “other” (credit derivatives, weather derivatives, etc) make up the derivative markets.
Central Banking & Monetary Policy: An Introduction
This book presents an introduction to central banking and monetary policy.
Money Market: An Introduction
The money market has traditionally been defined as the market for short-term marketable debt instruments, such as commercial paper (CP) and treasury bills (TBs). It is much more than this.
Bond Market: An Introduction
This book covers all aspects of the bond market including its context, issuers & investors, organisation, instruments, maths, and tools.
Interest Rates: An Introduction
Interest rates are critically important prices in an economy, and they are to a significant extent controlled by the central bank, reflecting monetary policy.
Financial Institutions: An Introduction
Financial “institutions” covers the mainstream financial intermediaries (banks and investment vehicles), the quasi-financial intermediaries, as well as the ancillary financial entities.
Money Creation: An Introduction
One of the great mysteries and elegant features of the financial system in general, and of the banking sector in particular, is the creation of new money.
Money Creation: Advanced Readings
This is a book of papers which endeavour to dispel the many misleading notions in respect of money creation.
Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis
This book evaluates the origins of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) as a guide for further study.
Company Valuation and Share Price
This book provides a guide to company share valuation in today’s volatile markets using asset values, earnings, dividend policy, cash flow analysis and behavioural theory.
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
This book evaluates the development of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) based on the Sharpe CAPM and Ross four-factor APT, underpinned by Modigliani and Miller's "law of one price".
Company Valuation and Takeover
This book provides an investor’s guide to company share valuation in today’s volatile markets.