Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation's institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.

Wenn Unternehmen ihre Rentabilitat sichern und dazu Kosten analysieren und steuern wollen, bedienen sie sich der Methodik des Kostenmanagements. Dazu stehen verschiedene Techniken zur Verfugung. Gerade fur gemeinkostenverursachende industrielle Prozesse stellt sich das Prozesskostenmanagement als besonders geeignet heraus. Lernen Sie in diesem Buch die Industrie als treibende Kraft der Wirtschaftsleistung kennen. Erfahren Sie, warum Wettbewerb und Kostendruck in der Industrie stark ausgepragt sind. Und informieren Sie sich uber die Moeglichkeiten, wie Sie das Prozesskostenmanagement auf industrielle Prozesse anwenden koennen.

With M&As in the RIA space increasing, many firms are rapidly changing hands with little to no expert guidance on how to successfully execute a merger or acquisition. In 2017, a record number of M&A deals closed in the advisor space - 168 transactions, or a 22% growth over 2016. Aside from a fifth straight year of record highs in M&A activity, the size of the acquired firms has also increased, with average acquisitions involving wealth managers exceeding $1.01 billion in assets under management. For many advisors, it only takes a handful of missteps during a merger or acquisition to jeopardize their business, but with so much unknown, advisors need a guidebook for success. A significant and often overlooked component to a successful RIA merger or acquisition is the thoughtful integration of technology. This comprehensive guide walks you through the steps of strategy, assessment, implementation, adoption and growth, all while considering how to best inspire and galvanize a firm's most valuable asset - its people. Combining the real-life experiences of a life-long financial advisor with the expertise of a 15-year operations director and founder of a large RIA ops network, this book takes real M&A experiences of the financial services industry and offers best practices, tools and resources to help advisors make smart decisions about technology integration that elevates the firm's goals and solidifies its future success.

FinTech and the Remaking of Financial Institutions explores the transformative potential of new entrants and innovations on business models. In its survey and analysis of FinTech, the book addresses current and future states of money and banking. It provides broad contexts for understanding financial services, products, technology, regulations and social considerations. The book shows how FinTech has evolved and will drive the future of financial services, while other FinTech books concentrate on particular solutions and adopt perspectives of individual users, companies and investors. It sheds new light on disruption, innovation and opportunity by placing the financial technology revolution in larger contexts.

In diesem essential werden die Faktoren untersucht, die die Nutzungsabsicht eines Robo Advisors beeinflussen. Hierbei werden zunachst die Digitalisierung in der Finanzindustrie sowie die Entstehung und Funktionsweise von Robo Advisorn thematisiert. Anschliessend werden mithilfe einer auf dem Technologieakzeptanzmodell beruhenden empirischen Untersuchung die Akzeptanz von Robo Advisory gemessen und auf dieser Basis Handlungsempfehlungen formuliert.

The roadmap to success for financial professionals using real-world examples, practical how-to's, and a structured approach to marketing strategy and tactics that covers the basics for beginners and inspires new ideas for marketing pros

"The Financial Marketing Services Handbook, Second Edition" gives sales and marketing practitioners the practical tools and best practices they need both to improve their job performance and their retail and institutional marketing strategies. "The FSM Handbook" guides marketing and sales professionals working in an industry characterized by cut-throat competition, client mistrust, transformative technologies, and ever-changing regulation, to understand the practical steps they must take to turn these threats into opportunities.

Providing invaluable information on how to target, win, and retain profitable customers, the book presents an overview of the basic marketing functions--segmentation, positioning, brand building, situational analyses, and tactical planning--as they relate specifically to the financial services industry. With up-to-date case studies, showing what has worked and, more tellingly, what hasn't, the book demonstrates how to effectively utilize the marketer's toolbox--from advertising and public relations to social media and mobile marketing.Discusses how social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, review sites) impact branding and salesPacked with new information on landing pages, email success factors, and smartphone appsDemonstrates how behavioral economics affect marketing strategyCase studies and charts are fully revised and updated

The financial industry is under intense pressure to improve profits, retain high-value clients, and maintain brand equity without straining budgets. The first edition has become an industry-standard reference book and "The Financial Services Marketing Handbook, Second Edition" gives sales and marketing professionals even more of the information they need to stretch value from each marketing dollar.

In diesem Buch erhalten Sie einen Einblick in die Welt virtueller Wahrungen und erfahren einiges uber ihren Einfluss auf das etablierte Finanzsystem. Dazu gehoert ein grundlegender UEberblick zu den Funktionsweisen der zugrunde liegenden Blockchaintechnologie sowie die im Mittelprunkt stehende Analyse der Leistungsfahigkeit von digitalem Geld. Zur Veranschaulichung der Rolle von virtuellem Geld werden diese den Anforderungen des Finanzsystems gegenubergestellt. Aus dieser Gegenuberstellung koennen Prognosen fur das Marktpotenzial des digitalen Geldes abgeleitet werden.

This book explores the evolution of the banking sector and the financing tools it fosters, addressing the impact of new regulations and the ensuing opportunities for financial institutions, firms, and individuals. Written in two parts, the project includes papers presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Wolpertinger Club - The European Association of University Teachers in Banking and Finance. The first part addresses the impact of policy changes on banks and financial institutions, particularly the impact of recent changes in European policy. The authors explore how policy has been, and is, communicated and how it shapes new incentives and challenges for the banking sector and institutional and individual investors. The book touches upon the debate on the 'bail-in' vs 'bail-out' options and reviews new opportunities for investors on covered and subordinated bond markets in Europe, covering the new regulatory structure provided by the European authorities. The second part explores new financing tools besides the traditional banking sector available to firms and individuals, examining financing options for firms and individuals, and describing the role that alternative capital-market tools such as mini bonds and crowdfunding are playing within the landscape of SME financing. Arguing that financing decisions can ultimately affect the survival rate of startups, this edited collection will be valuable to those researching both finance and business, but particularly to those studying banking, financial institutions and entrepreneurial finance.

Sustainable investments, although not yet working under a comprehensive regulatory framework, represent a growing, worldwide phenomenon. Such growth reflects the renewed public and private interest in environmental issues such as climate change, poverty and financial inclusion, as well as growing support from conscious investors looking to finance environmental and social initiatives. However, despite the interest that sustainable investments are gaining among governors, investors and practitioners, important challenges remain that must be addressed. Comprising a collection of research presented at the 2nd Social Impact Investments International Conference, this contributed volume offers a global analysis of the current state of the sustainable finance sector, proposing solutions to challenging obstacles and exploring topics including impact investing, social impact bonds and green banking. Providing real-life case studies from Europe, Latin America and Africa, this book is an insightful and timely read for scholars interested in sustainable finance, social impact investing, development finance and alternative finance.

This book, one of three volumes, showcases the effective transformation of companies providing banking and insurance services. This first volume gives a business-oriented introduction to the setting and the current challenges of fintech, regtech, and insurtech and provides an outlook on what will be needed in the future. Specific sub-departments in financial services are examined with a view to accounting, risk, and regulatory segments. The book also addresses the importance of cultural aspects of the coming digital transformation with an eye to requirements that will enable a digital bank or insurance company to thrive in 2025. The angle shifts over the volumes from a business-driven approach in "Disruption and DNA" to a strong technical focus in "Data Storage, Processing and Analysis", leaving "Digitalization and Machine Learning Applications" with the business and technical aspects in-between.

Anhand ausgewahlter Praxisbeispiele untersucht Victor Rutz zwei Ansatze zur Nutzung der aktuell kontrovers diskutierten Distributed Ledger Technology, den Public- und den Private-Blockchain-Ansatz. Neben einer umfangreichen Beschreibung der zugrundeliegenden Technologie liefert der Autor eine detaillierte Betrachtung kritischer Erfolgsfaktoren und zeigt so die individuellen Starken und Schwachen beider Ansatze auf.

Throughout history, innovators have disrupted existing financial services norms to change the landscape of the marketplace. Disruptive Fintech briefly traces fractional reserves, the creation of bank currency that traded at a premium to bullion value, central bank regulation, securitization of assets and loans, the current state of digital currency and electronic payments. The author then looks toward the future of fintech and the forces of disruption that will change the landscape of financial life as we know it. Using over 100 interviews with thought leading CEOs, this book develops a methodology to identify financial services that are ripe for innovation and discusses how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models. The book discusses How to relate historical innovations and disruptions in financial services to the current landscape How to follow a process to identify the threats facing incumbent processes and businesses, and how innovative thinking can be used as a disruptive weapon to attack incumbents and create effective new fintech models How many fintech innovations will be constructed by re-arranging or re-purposing existing core processes In this insightful book, author James Deitch, CPA CMB, argues that some of today's high-flying fintech innovators will flourish, but many may perish as the fire of innovation consumes those fintechs that are slow to monetize their promises.

This book argues that three powerful symbiotic forces (globalization, competitiveness, and governability) are disrupting business in the 21st century, resulting in an impact on the economic and business environment far greater than the effects of any of these three individually. Both globalization and competitiveness are governed essentially by market forces that force the introduction of significant changes aimed at increasing efficiency so that a better use may be made of the advantages of globalization (i.e., the traditional "invisible" hand). Responsibility for bringing about these changes lies not only with the private sector but also with the government (i.e., the "visible" hand). Readers will find in this book an explanation of how globalization, competitiveness, and governability define the context of global business.

Markus Bramberger untersucht die europaweite Umsetzung der Payment Services Directive II (PSD II) im Bankensektor, die sich in allen EU-Landern durch eine regional divergierende Auslegung der Gesetzestexte unterscheidet. Der Autor gibt Antworten auf die Frage, ob Banken - wie wir sie noch heute kennen - pauschal durch innovative und digital exzellent positionierte Dienstleister, wie z. B. durch FinTech-Unternehmen, im Zuge von Open Banking substituiert werden koennen. Es ist offensichtlich, dass nur operativ klar ausgerichtete Unternehmensleitbilder der Digitalisierungsoffensive standhalten. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser herausfordernden, aber auch chancengenerierenden Zeit im Bankensektor leistet dieses Buch einen wesentlichen Beitrag uber die Zukunft des bargeldlosen Geldtransfers im gesamten EU-Raum.

This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention. Technologies such as blockchain, cloud computing, mobile technologies, big data analytics and social media therefore have perhaps more potential in this industry and area of business than any other. This book defines a fintech ecosystem for the 21st century, providing a state-of-the art review of current literature, suggesting avenues for new research and offering perspectives from business, technology and industry.

In dem vorliegenden Buch analysiert Rene Berg die informationsoekonomische Bedeutung von Informationsintermediaren bei der Kanalisierung legitimer nachhaltiger Unternehmensaktivitaten. Auf Basis einer institutionentheoretisch entwickelten Soll-Nachhaltigkeitskonzeption wird ein asymmetrischer Bewertungseffekt in Form des informationsbedingten Legitimitatseffekts modelltheoretisch prognostiziert und empirisch am Kapitalmarkt nachgewiesen. Aus den gewonnen Erkenntnissen werden konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen fur eine nachhaltige Regulierung abgeleitet.

Abgeleitet aus der Diskrepanz zwischen den Einschatzungen von Expertinnen und Experten und der aktuellen Situation am Mobile Payment Markt zielt dieses Buch auf die Identifikation der zentralen Faktoren der Mobile Payment Akzeptanz aus der Sicht potentieller Nutzerinnen und Nutzer ab. Die Untersuchung fokussiert auf die Erforschung der Akzeptanz von MP mittels Smartphone im stationaren Handel. Das Smartphone wird u. a. von der European Banking Federation als das zentrale Medium im Bereich Digital Banking eingeordnet. Geringe Nutzungsraten bei Mobile Payment im Allgemeinen und vor allem bei Mobile Payment im stationaren Handel zeichnen allerdings ein anderes Bild.

Although most Americans attribute shifting practices in the financial industry to the invisible hand of the market, Mark H. Rose reveals the degree to which presidents, legislators, regulators, and even bankers themselves have long taken an active interest in regulating the industry. In 1971, members of Richard Nixon's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation described the banks they sought to create as "supermarkets." Analogous to the twentieth-century model of a store at which Americans could buy everything from soft drinks to fresh produce, supermarket banks would accept deposits, make loans, sell insurance, guide mergers and acquisitions, and underwrite stock and bond issues. The supermarket bank presented a radical departure from the financial industry as it stood, composed as it was of local savings and loans, commercial banks, investment banks, mutual funds, and insurance firms. Over the next four decades, through a process Rose describes as "grinding politics," supermarket banks became the guiding model of the financial industry. As the banking industry consolidated, it grew too large while remaining too fragmented and unwieldy for politicians to regulate and for regulators to understand-until, in 2008, those supermarket banks, such as Citigroup, needed federal help to survive and prosper once again. Rose explains the history of the financial industry as a story of individuals-some well-known, like Presidents Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton; Treasury Secretaries Donald Regan and Timothy Geithner; and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon; and some less so, though equally influential, such as Kennedy's Comptroller of the Currency James J. Saxon, Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston, and Bank of America CEOs Hugh McColl and Kenneth Lewis. Rose traces the evolution of supermarket banks from the early days of the Kennedy administration, through the financial crisis of 2008, and up to the Trump administration's attempts to modify bank rules. Deeply researched and accessibly written, Market Rules demystifies the major trends in the banking industry and brings financial policy to life.

This book fills a gap in the lack of books that cover the administration and operations functions related to funds. With the growth of hedge funds globally there is more and more requirement for fund administration services, and the success of the fund administration is crucial to the success of the funds themselves in a highly competitive market. As the focus on operational risk, cost effective support and administration of trading and investment and the ability to design, develop and deliver added-value services for clients grows there is a need for a comprehensive analysis of what happens from trade to settlement and beyond and the exact role that the fund administrator may be required to provide. The book helps those responsible for managing and supervising fund administration services by examining the decisions, actions and problems at the various stages as well as explaining the products and infrastructure that services support.
*Concise, easy to read format explains extensive and complicated procedures with lively, easy to follow road maps
*Comprehensive reference work with extensive glossary of terms, useful website addresses and further reading recommendations
*Covers all the major stages with detailed explanations of what is required for effective completion and regulatory compliance