This book focuses on how supply chain finance serves and improves industrial supply chain and financial activities of SMEs in China from innovative perspective. How does supply chain finance empower SMEs? What is the basis for granting credit to SMEs? What kind of supply chain finance model can most effectively support SMEs? To address the above questions, this book adopts positivism, uses an inductive method and carries out case studies through qualitative analysis. At the end of book, the auth...
True to its title, this book is focused on mathematical finance field and it is draft in order to accomplish the level aimed at second or third year undergraduate students, not only of mathematics but also, for example, business management, finance and economics. The aim of this book is to provide the basic concepts concerning the mathematical finance which is unescapable to understand the way modern financial markets operate.Thanks to these fundamental concepts, which are completely concentrate...
Financial Engineering is a text with a methodological thread, making it appropriate as a reference text. Risk management and measure and control of volatility is a major theme, but broader financial issues are also covered to provide the reader with a conceptual framework to manipulate and evaluate financial instruments. Errington's text analyses the spectrum of financial engineering including explanations of financial axioms and mathematical techniques with a summary of the instruments and wor...
Critical Issues and Challenges in Islamic Economics and Finance Development
This book explores contemporary issues and trends facing Islamic banks, businesses and economies as presented at the International Conference of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance. The authors leverage current empirical research and statistics to provide unique and fresh perspectives on the changing world of Islamic finance. They focus specifically on to the implementation of Islamic financial instruments and services in global capital markets and how their success can be evaluated. Chapters...
Talent management is a way banks acquire competitive advantage. Practices such as personality profiling with effective knowledge-based productivity and the application of high-performance work systems help to set a company apart from its competition and maintain this competitive advantage. This book provides an in-depth look at the relationship between personality types and individual-level performance in knowledge-based environments, through cases in Australia’s banking and finance sector. Thi...
Unlocking Islamic Climate Finance
This report analyzes how Islamic finance can be scaled up to help build urgently-needed climate-resilient infrastructure in the Asia and Pacific region, and ensure its post-COVID-19 recovery is green, sustainable, and inclusive. It outlines how greening Islamic capital markets and social finance, mobilizing project finance for infrastructure and boosting financial inclusion, can play a key role in funding the climate agenda. It details the 14 ADB developing member countries with majority Muslim...
Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2020 – Volume I
This volume reviews micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Southeast Asia. It provides data and analysis as a resource for evidence-based policy design on MSME development. The development of MSMEs remains key to promoting inclusive growth in developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. The Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor (ASM) 2020 focuses on Southeast Asia and this first volume provides data and analysis on the financial and non-financial conditions of MSMEs at...
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance (Oxford Handbooks)
The Oxford Handbook of Computational Economics and Finance provides a survey of both the foundations of and recent advances in the frontiers of analysis and action. It is both historically and interdisciplinarily rich and also tightly connected to the rise of digital society. It begins with the conventional view of computational economics, including recent algorithmic development in computing rational expectations, volatility, and general equilibrium. It then moves from traditional computing in...
Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance (Frontiers in Finance)
by Paul Wilmott
This text provides an analysis of all aspects of derivatives and does not require a prior detailed knowledge of financial markets. In each chapter, the reader is first introduced to the market segment or particular product being discussed before having simple maths and market practice explained. Thereafter, issues of complex modelling are examined with, where applicable, visual basic code fragments (computer programming implementing the calculations and modelling covered) and screen dumps of spr...
Fintech and Sustainability
Fintech can improve sustainability, influence policies, and require new regulations. Climate change, water pollution, and non-renewable resources management can all be addressed with fintech innovations. Despite the advantages offered by fintech, opponents warn of potential negative consequences. The application of fintech in sustainability is a double-edged sword requiring further investigation. This book provides an overview of fintech applications and considers their impact on the future of...
Blockchain Technology and Applications (River Publishers Series in Security and Digital Forensics)
by Ahmed Banafa
Blockchain is an emerging technology that can radically improve security in transaction networks, it provides the basis for a dynamic distributed ledger that can be applied to save time when recording transactions between parties, remove costs associated with intermediaries, and reduce risks of fraud and tampering. This book explores the fundamentals and applications of Blockchain technology; the transparent, secure, immutable and distributed database used currently as the underlying technology...
Revolutionary Challenges and Opportunities of Fintech
This book explores the emergence of artificial intelligence blended with financial concepts as a promising new area in business and technology—financial technology, or fintech. The book introduces the very relevant concepts of fintech, its financial derivatives, management information systems, and artificial intelligence and provides tools to find solutions to complex problems in the finance and investment domain. The case studies provide firsthand knowledge of real problems faced by the indust...
The Palgrave Handbook of FinTech and Blockchain
Financial services technology and its effect on the field of finance and banking has been of major importance within the last few years. The spread of these so-called disruptive technologies, including Blockchain, has radically changed financial markets and transformed the operation of the industry as a whole. This is the first multidisciplinary handbook of FinTech and Blockchain covering finance, economics, and legal aspects globally. With comprehensive coverage of the current landscape of fina...
Financial Digitalization and Its Implications for ASEAN+3 Regional Financial Stability
Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing: Models of Financial Economics and Their Applications in Investing
by Jamil Baz, Helen Guo, and Erol Hakanoglu
Innovations in Social Finance
Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance has attracted the attention of governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources and innovation with the goal of establishing effective...
Unsettled Topics in the Application of Satellite Navigation to Air Traffic Management
by James L. Farrell