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About the Finance and Capital Markets Series

The Finance and Capital Markets series is designed to bring you high-quality, cutting-edge information on the latest issues and developments in the financial world. These authoritative yet accessible books, written by experts in their field, provide clear, practical guidance not only for industry professionals, but also serve as a framework of current analysis for scholars and form a comprehensive reference resource for libraries.

Series Editor: Erik Banks, Senior Risk Advisor, UniCredit Group
Associate Editor: Gianluca Oricchio, General Manager, CBM University, Italy

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Recent Publications

Dark Pools
The Structure and Future of Off-Exchange Trading and Liquidity
ERIK BANKS

Dark Pools is a practical text dealing with the increasingly important topic of dark pools, or non-displayed, off-exchange trading and liquidity. A growing amount of institutional trading occurs away from exchanges and expansion in this little understood sector of the market is set to continue. The book is organized in three parts: Market Structure, Micro Issues, and Environment of the Future.

April 2010 Hardback £130.00

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RISK AND FINANCIAL CATASTROPHE
ERIK BANKS


The risk process commonly used in the corporate world to deal with risks may be suitable for non-catastrophic events, but not for extreme events. By analyzing a series of past disasters and the relevant "lessons learned", this books proposes a series of prescriptive measures to cope with future disasters.

August 2009 Hardback £130.00

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STRATEGY, VALUE AND RISK
JAMIE ROGERS

Updated and revised, this second edition applies advanced financial analytics within a strategic framework that recognizes an environment where sustainable competitive advantage is a progressively more difficult task. Real Options offer the link to value and the strategic opportunities that lie in an increasingly dynamic landscape

September 2009 Hardback £130.00

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INVESTMENT WITHHOLDING TAX
ROSS MCGILL


This book provides a clear and concise explanation of withholding tax and how to leverage best practice to generate improved investment performance. It gives practical guidance to financial service firms and investors to help them understand the issues involved, trends and practicalities of maximizing returns on investment.

July 2009 Hardback £130.00

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DERIVATIVES AND INTERNAL MODELS
HANS-PETER DEUTSCH

This book provides a thorough introduction to pricing and risk management of modern financial instruments formulated in precise mathematical language, covering all relevant topics with such a depth of detail that readers are enabled to literally develop their own pricing and risk tools. Accompanying website with hundreds of real world examples

June 2009 Hardback £130.00

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INVESTOR RELATIONS:
Principles and International Best Practices of Financial Communications
ANNE GUIMARD

This practical guide on the theory and practice of Investor Relations combines the art and science of marketing, financial analysis and financial communications in a single source. It offers expert advice and helpful tips to be used in real business life by corporate executives, financial analysts, students, and anyone competing for capital.

November 2008 Hardback £130.00

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QUANTIFICATION OF OPERATIONAL RISK UNDER BASEL II:
The Good, Bad and Ugly
IMAD A. MOOSA

The book presents arguments that are critical of the Basel II Accord, particularly the advanced measurement approach to operational risk. It is argued that the advanced measurement approach is not viable in terms of costs and benefits and is likely to distract financial institutions from the real task of managing operational risk.

October 2008 Hardback £130.00

 

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STOCK MARKET DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
COUNTRIES OF THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL
AHSAN MANSUR and FERNANDO DELGADO

The book analyzes the stock market developments in all GCC countries, focusing on the recent boom and bust episodes in five out of the seven GCC equity markets - one of the major events in emerging markets this decade. The lessons from this period will constitute a reference for emerging equity markets for decades to come.

October 2008 Hardback £130.00

 

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TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
ROSS McGILL

Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years. While there are many books covering purely technical issues, this is one of the very few that look at the challenge of how to manage financial services technology in an area that under-pins almost every part of our global civilisation.

July 2008 Hardback £130.00

 

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STANDBY LETTERS OF CREDIT:
A Comprehensive Guide
JACOB E. SIFRI

A guide that tackles this vital financial instrument from a practical as well as legal perspective. Augmented with numerous real life cases, the book addresses the exact procedures undertaken by global banks in handling standby letters of credit transactions whilst providing an article by article interpretation of the ISP98.

May 2008 Hardback £130.00

 

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Also available in the series:

OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Imad A. Moosa
July 2007 Hardback 9780230506442 £135.00

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: Current Issues
Greg N. Gregoriou and Karyn Neuhauser
November 2007 Hardback 9780230553798 £135.00

GLOBAL CUSTODY AND CLEARING SERVICES
Ross McGill and Naren Patel
December 2007 Hardback 9780230007000 £135.00

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT FOR ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE
Ioannis Akkizidis and Sunil Kumar Khandelwal
December 2007 Hardback 9780230553811 £135.00

INTERNATIONAL TRADE FINANCE: A Pragmatic Approach
Tarsem Singh Bhogal and Arun Kumar Trivedi
December 2007 Hardback 9780230553781 £135.00

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To set up a standing order which will ensure you receive all future books in the series immediately upon publication, please order from your usual supplier or direct from Palgrave Macmillan quoting ISBN 978-0-333-96273-2.

If you would like to write a book for the series or have suggestions for further titles please contact the Senior Commissioning Editor for Finance, Lisa von Fircks