Banks & Banking

Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

Tamal Bandyopadhyay chronicles HDFC Bank’s own digital disruption exercise through the very people who drove it, narrating a story that’s as compelling as unique in India’s financial system....

Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently....

Charting new territory in advancing our understanding of the blockchain by unpacking its elements like no other before, The Business Blockchain is the definitive pioneering blueprint covering the what, why, and how of the blockchain....

Enrich your career with a review of investment banking basics....

Arnold Ziegel formed Mountain Mentors Associates after his retirement from a corporate banking career of more than 30 years at Citibank....

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled....

Pyramid of Lies reveals the inside story of Lex Greensill's meteoric rise and fall, and the billion dollar scandal that ensnared David Cameron, SoftBank and Credit Suisse....

In this thoroughly revised edition following the latest crises to hit international markets, economist Robert Z. Aliber introduces the concept that global financial crises in recent years are not independent events, but symptomatic of an inherent instability in the international system....

Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama....

Jamie Dimon is Wall Street's biggest player. Following the 11h-hour rescue of Bear Stearns by JPMorgan, his profile has reached stratospheric levels....

On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs....

Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises. As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and then as President Barack Obama’s secretary of the Treasury, Timothy F. Geithner helped the United States navigate the worst financial crisis....

A coruscating, brilliantly insightful exegesis of where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored....

In the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the "Great Men" of Wall Street investment bank Lazard Frères & Co. jeopardized all they had built....

American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.

This account describes how a 28-year-old from Watford, Nick Leeson, plunged Barings Bank into ruin....

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank That Lived a Little is the story of one of the most familiar names on the British high street since Big Bang in 1986....

From journalist Chris Blackhurst, Too Big to Jail unveils how HSBC facilitated mass money laundering schemes for brutal drug kingpins and rogue nations–and thereby helped to grow one of the deadliest drugs empires the world has ever seen....

This book is a practical guide to the evolving landscape of finance, highlighting how it's changing our relationship with money and how financial technology, together with macroeconomic and societal change, is rewriting the story of how business is done in developing economies....

Banking on It is the firsthand account of one woman's quest to rebuild Britain's broken banking system....

In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

In this exposé, former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Collusion will change the way we understand the new world of international finance....

This book is Booth's clarion call for a change in the way America's most powerful financial institution is run - before it's too late....

Why our banking system is broken—and what we must do to fix it.