How to Find Out About Banking and Investment (eBook)

The Commonwealth and International Library: Libraries and Technical Information Division

Norman Burgess (Autor)

G. Chandler (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2014 | 1. Auflage
312 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-5723-8 (ISBN)

Infos

How to Find Out About Banking and Investment focuses on the sources of information on banking and investment. The publication first ponders on careers, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and libraries and guides to libraries. Discussions focus on guides to the resources of libraries, Banking Information Service, Bank Education Service, education and examinations in America, sources of information on careers, finance houses, joint stock banking, foreign and merchant banks, and the London Stock Exchange. The text then takes a look at bibliographies and literature guides, periodical literature, financial economics, banks and banking, and central banking classification. Topics include library catalogues, guides to reference works, periodicals concerned with banking and finance, money and banking in the United States, financial institutions and economic development, banking in Europe, European Economic Community, and banking in the United States. The book takes a look at interest and discount, credit and instruments of credit, foreign and overseas investment, and merchant and investment banking. The publication is a dependable source of information for researchers and bankers wanting to explore banking and investment.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
How to Find out about Banking and Investment 
4 
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
List of Illustrations 10
Introduction 12
CHAPTER 1. Careers 14
Joint Stock Banking 14
Foreign Banks 16
Merchant Banks 17
Finance Houses 17
The Trustee Savings Banks 18
The Bank of England 18
The London Stock Exchange 19
Sources of Information on Careers 19
Education and Examinations 23
Education and Examinations in America 25
The Bank Education Service 28
Banking Information Service 28
CHAPTER 2. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias 29
Exercises 31
CHAPTER 3. Libraries and Guides to Libraries 32
Libraries 32
Guides to the Resources of Libraries 40
Exercises 40
CHAPTER 4. Bibliographies and Literature Guides 41
General Bibliographies 41
Specialized Bibliographies 42
Library Catalogues 44
Guides to Reference Works 46
Periodical Guides and Union Lists 49
Exercises 50
CHAPTER 5. Periodical Literature 51
Periodicals Concerned with Banking and Finance 52
Periodicals Concerned with Investment and Finance 55
Exercises 57
CHAPTER 6. Financial Economics (Dewey Classification 332) 58
Financial Institutions in the United Kingdom 59
The Monetary System 61
Money and Banking in the United States 64
Other Financial Institutions in America 66
Latin America 67
European Countries 67
West Indies 68
Canada 69
Australia and New Zealand 69
South Africa 69
India and Pakistan 70
The Middle East 70
Financial Institutions and Economic Development 71
Historical Surveys and Commentaries 72
Exercises 74
CHAPTER 7. Banks and Banking (Dewey Classification 332.1) 75
The British Banking System 75
The Commonwealth 78
Banking in Europe 81
The European Economic Community 85
Russia and Eastern Europe 85
Banking in the United States 86
The Middle East 87
Asia 88
Banking Directories 89
The Law Relating to Banking 94
Scots Law 96
Banking Law in Commonwealth Countrie 96
Africa 96
The United States 97
Exercises 97
CONTROI AND REGULATION IN GENERAI 98
CHAPTER 8. Central Banking (Dewey Classification 332.11) 99
Central Banking in Great Britain 100
Central Banking in the British Commonwealth 102
The United States 106
Asia 110
The Establishment of New Central Banks 110
The Law of Central Banking 111
Exercises 112
CHAPTER 9. Commercial Banks (Dewey Classification 332.12) 113
Commercial Banking in England 113
Scotland 115
Ireland 116
Australia and New Zealand 116
Canada 117
Africa 117
Asia 118
United States 118
Latin America 120
Exercises 120
CHAPTER 10. International Monetary Relations (Dewey Classification 332.15) 121
The International Monetary Fund 125
The World Bank 127
The International Development Association 128
The International Finance Corporation 128
Export-Import Bank of Washington 128
The Inter-American Development Bank 129
Agency for International Development 129
Commodity Credit Corporation 130
The Bank for International Settlements 130
Balance of Payments 131
Exercises 131
CHAPTER 11. Multiple, Branch, and Chain Banking (Dewey Classification 332.16) 132
Group Banking 133
Inter-bank Deposits 134
Exercises 135
CHAPTER 12. Banking Practice (Dewey Classification 332.17) 136
Scotland 139
The United States 140
Bank Management 142
Automation 145
Executor and Trust Functions 147
United States 148
Correspondence and Secretarial Work 148
Standards and Tests 149
Staff Organizations 150
Exercises 150
CHAPTER 13. Savings Banks (Dewey Classification 332.2) 151
Legal Aspects of Savings Banks 152
Savings and Loan Associations 152
Mutual Savings Banks 153
Exercises 153
CHAPTER 14. Credit and Loan Institutions (Dewey Classification 332.3) 154
Development Banks 154
Building Societies 156
Banks and Housing 158
Mortgage Banking 159
Moneylenders 160
Credit Facilities for Agriculture 161
Exercises 162
CHAPTER 15. Money and Monetary Theory (Dewey Classification 332.4) 163
Monetary Theory 163
The Legal Aspects of Money 165
Exercises 166
CHAPTER 16. Value and Volume Fluctuations (Dewey Classification 332.413 and 332.414) 167
The Theory of Inflation 167
Historical Surveys 169
Exercises 170
CHAPTER 17. Monetary Standards (Dewey Classification 332.42) 171
Exercises 173
CHAPTER 18. Foreign Exchange (Dewey Classification 332.45) 174
Historical and Theoretical Aspects 175
The United States and Canada 177
The Euro-dollar System 177
Arbitrage 178
Exchange Regulations 178
Calculation 179
Sterling 179
The Dollar 182
Exercises 183
CHAPTER 19. Monetary History (Dewey Classification 332.49) 184
Decimal Currency 185
European Countries 185
The United States 186
Asia 187
Paper Money 188
Exercises 188
CHAPTER 20. Investment Services and Reference Works (Dewey Classification 332.6) 189
Services 189
Other American Services 197
Canadian Services 201
Australian Services 202
French Services 202
German Services 204
Dutch Service 204
Belgium 205
Reference Works 205
Individual European Countries 209
Other Countries 209
Bibliography 211
Exercises 211
CHAPTER 21. Investment Finance (Dewey Classification 332.6) 212
Investment Management 215
Security Analysis 216
Investment Decision Making 217
Personal Finance 218
Institutional Investment Policies 219
The Capital Market 219
Government Securities 221
Unit Trusts 221
Investment Companies 223
Over-the-Counter Market 223
Exercises 224
CHAPTER 22. The Stock Market and the Stock Exchange (Dewey Classification 332.61) 225
The United States 226
Reference Works 228
Share Indices 229
Legal Aspects 230
Speculation 231
Lotteries 231
Exercises 232
CHAPTER 23. Merchant and Investment Banking (Dewey Classification 332.66) 233
Investment Banking 234
UNITED KINGDOM ISSUES—ALPHABETICAL 235
Biography 237
Exercises 238
CHAPTER 24. Foreign and Overseas Investment (Dewey Classification 332.673) 239
Acceptance of Foreign Investment 243
Special Relationships 244
Trade with Other Countries 245
Legal Problems 245
Exercises 246
CHAPTER 25. Credit and Instruments of Credit (Dewey Classification 332.7) 247
Hire Purchase 247
Consumer Credit in the United States 249
Giro Credit Systems 251
The London Money Market 252
The New York Money Market 252
Bills of Exchange 253
Cheques 255
The Clearing-house System 256
Letters of Credit 257
Bankruptcy 258
Exercises 259
CHAPTER 26. Interest and Discount (Dewey Classification 332.8) 260
History 260
Bank Rate 262
Interest Tables 263
Bond Yield and Value Tables: a selective list 264
The Use of Interest Tables 265
Exercises 265
CHAPTER 27. Law (Dewey Classification 340) 266
Business Taxation 267
Income Tax 267
Capital Gains Tax 268
Executorship, Wills, and Allied Topics 268
Death Duties 269
Real Property 269
Charities 269
Stamp Duty 270
Scots Law 270
Reference Works 270
Periodicals 271
The United States 271
Exercises 271
APPENDIX 1 Proceedings of the International Banking Summer Schools 272
APPENDIX 2 Societies and Institutions 273
Banking Associations 273
Some Societies and Institutions 274
Index 280

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-5723-7 / 1483157237
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-5723-8 / 9781483157238