Financial Lexicon: A Compendium of Financial Definitions, Acronyms, and Colloquialisms

by E. Banks

Overview

Financial Lexicon is intended as a comprehensive financial reference book that explains the formal and informal terminology of finance. Structured as a dictionary, the book will contain clear and detailed explanations of common banking, finance and investment terms. Unlike other textbooks, which focus solely on standard definitions, Financial Lexicon will include formal corporate business terms alongside the jargon that has entered business life. Terms defined in TFL will be drawn from all of the major sectors in the international capital markets and the financial industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349518401
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Series:	Finance and Capital Markets Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

ERIK BANKS has held senior risk management positions at several global financial institutions, including Partner and Chief Risk Officer of Bermuda reinsurer XL Capital's derivatives subsidiary, and Managing Director of Corporate Risk Management at Merrill Lynch, where he spent 13 years managing credit risk, market risk and risk analytics/technology teams in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and, latterly, New York. He received early bank training at Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover, and is the author of a dozen books on risk management, emerging markets, derivatives, alternative risk transfer, merchant banking, and electronic finance.

Table of Contents

Securities and Investment Asset Management Corporate Finance Commercial Banking Investment Banking Insurance/Reinsurance Risk Management Trading Derivatives Credit and Equity Analysis Business Economics Business Law