This book contains advice and direction for women who are either seeking a career or who have already embarked on a career in financial services. The book first aims to help the female reader gain clarity on her motivation in pursuing a career in finance. It then identifies potential gender-specific challenges that could create problems if she is unaware or unconscious to her surrounding work environment. Lastly, it provides insights and exercises to develop a strategy for career accomplishment. Written by a former Senior Financial Executive for several fortune 500 firms including M&M Mars, a Wealth Manager/Owner of a fee-only Registered Investment Advisory firm, and Professor of financial planning at the University of South Florida, the book will help women identify pitfalls, create game plans to transcend the limitations of their workplace cultures, and learn how to collaborate with their peers to create healthier work environments. Told through personal stories, anecdotes from other women and academic research, Gender on Wall Street helps women identify the internal and external obstacles to their success. This book will also provide a means of overcoming these obstacles through conscious engagement, personal reflection and strategy-building exercises at the conclusion of each chapter. The reader will be guided into creating their own personal career plan-the STAR plan-which will help them achieve career success.

THE BEST HANDBOOK FOR DEALING WITH MONEY MATTERS - Take back control and keep a grasp on your hard-earned cash. Start working towards financial independence for more freedom. How well are you managing your finances right now? Managing money can be tough, that's why this book is packed with practical, actionable tips to lift your personal finances up to the next level. Lifehacker Paul McQueen sets a straightforward game plan for tackling your finances. Simply put, it's time to start winning at the money game. Hotlifestyle - Everybody Loves Money is an eye-opening look at some of the biggest challenges we must face every day. It explains the mechanics and pitfalls that may be encountered in the process of taking a loan. Paul McQueen discusses dealing with rent arrears and late payment to avoid foreclosure which could even lead to bankruptcy. Creating good financial habits will benefit you enormously in your pursuit for a Hotlifestyle. Becoming debt free is not the ultimate goal when you understand how saving and investing will propel your life to a whole new level.

This report offers an analytical framework that allows for more systemic assessments of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and its applications. It examines the evolution and typology of the emergent technology, its existing and projected applications, and regulatory and policy issues that they entail. This report highlights the trends, concerns, and potential opportunities of DLTs, especially for Asian markets. It also identifies the benefits and risks to using DLT and offers a functional and proportional approach to these issues.

Der digitale Wandel erfasst alle Wirtschaftsbereiche. Jedoch blieb das lukrative internationale Auslandszahlungsverkehrsgeschaft der Banken hiervon unberuhrt. Disruptive Innovationen wie Kryptowahrungen, Blockchain-Technologien und neue Geschaftsmodelle wie FinTechs verandern auch dieses Geschaftsfeld. Welche Herausforderungen gibt es hierbei? Wie findet diese Transformation statt? Auf welche Pain Points mussen Banker, IT-Entwickler sowie Behoerden vorbereitet sein? Cordelia Friesendorf und Julian Stern rusten die praxis-orientierten Leser mit dem aktuellsten Knowhow und den notwendigen Tools aus, um die Digitalisierungsprozesse voranzubringen.

This extraordinary book, written by leading players in a burgeoning technology revolution, is about the merger of finance and technology (fintech), and covers its various aspects and how they impact each discipline within the financial services industry. It is an honest and direct analysis of where each segment of financial services will stand. Fintech: The New DNA of Financial Services provides an in-depth introduction to understanding the various areas of fintech and terminology such as AI, big data, robo-advisory, blockchain, cryptocurrency, InsurTech, cloud computing, crowdfunding and many more. Contributions from fintech innovators discuss banking, insurance and investment management applications, as well as the legal and human resource implications of fintech in the future.

This book provides an approach to sustainable decision-making rooted in financial and economic literature. Financial economic techniques have the power to frame the discussion of sustainability to explain who, how, and why sustainability is a growing phenomenon in business and investing. Financial concepts in a sustainable framework provide a theoretical basis to approach research and business questions on sustainability. The framework provides for a better understanding of the different definitions of sustainability and the role those differences have on decisions that will lead to the future of sustainable business. A future which relies on growth driven by expanding its markets' reach (demographics), its innovation or creation of new products, and its capital structure (leverage). Third party certification and governmental regulation become the constraints on that growth as well as the proof of sustainable growth. Finally, the ability and methods for investors to support sustainable growth is addressed in a modern portfolio theory analysis.