(Part 2) Best banks & banking books according to redditors
We found 175 Reddit comments discussing the best banks & banking books. We ranked the 83 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
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I have a few questions:
(1) Did you go to a top school? If not you can all but forget about getting into a top bank in the most lucrative position of doing deals. Unless you happen to have an in.
(2) Why do you need to be in a top bank?
(3) What are you looking to learn for banking...meaning deals or just the banking industry in general?
For general banking industry start reading through 10Q/Ks. You will quickly pick up on what drives banks and how they view/drive profitability.
If it is the former then hit up the following:
www.macaubus.com
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CLPF85E/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
>Thanks! A bunch more follow ups, Could you please help answer these too?
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The opening of the exchange originally requires a certain number of tokens. That’s the kind of transactions you seem to observe now.
Seriously this!
Start focusing on your computer science degree. Get a job at a FinTech company. And learn on the job. A lot of what we’re doing is so new that there aren’t single resources to learn.
Given that here are some books:
Also there’s a bunch of good podcasts. Breaking Bank is a good one to start with.
The thing is FinTech is a big field. Figure out whether you want to be in Payment, Lending, Banking, or whatever else.
Feel free to Ask me questions or DM me. I’ve spent my entire career in FinTech
Don't know if it's exactly what you wanted but check out these non-fiction books:
The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil)
Augmented: Life In The Smart Lane
Surviving AI: The Promise And Peril Of Artificial Intelligence
Edit: Bicentennial Man (was already mentioned) is one of my all-time favorite films
This book:
https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Superbank-Influence-Development-Rewriting-ebook/dp/B009QDHEWO
Unfortunately its not free but they have it very methodologically accounted for, and explaining the mechanism the loans work & how they help China & how the same technique was to be used in Africa.
Also the figures are a recurring theme in news articles, that are far far larger than the numbers on the graph you've provided, e.g http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1358902/china-provide-africa-us1tr-financing.
If you took the highest figure, the US FDI figure of $64bn for 2015 and spanned it annually over 12 years that's $768bn, still smaller than the loans given by China Exim in 2013 through to 2025. Also if you watch over the infrastructure projects in African countries they are much much larger than the figures on the FDI graph.
I've found
http://www.amazon.com/Science-Algorithmic-Trading-Portfolio-Management-ebook/dp/B00FQRWQMW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1396459672&sr=8-3&keywords=algorithmic+trading
To be a great resource...
For me the hardest challenge was finding really valuable cryptocurrencies and figuring out which could be the winner in the long run.
So I put together a short book that helps anyone evaluate and analyse cryptocurrencies for long-term investment. I compressed as much value as possible into this book, I really hope you will like it.
It’s available on Amazon for free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07588PNMR
"Live Lead Learn: My Stories of Life and Leadership"
by Gail Kelly
In 2010 she was listed in Forbes as the 8th most powerful woman in the world. South African/Australian businesswoman.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.amazon.com.au/Live-Lead-Learn-Stories-Leadership-ebook/dp/B06XCVY64W&ved=2ahUKEwiV45b5_5DmAhURT30KHb7EDWQQFjAKegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw0GLta6RUjX9cWXsbONgdAm
Mi stavo facendo intrigare da questo:
I banchieri di Dio (eNewton Saggistica) di Gerald Posner https://www.amazon.it/dp/B01LXPRFNV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_zWCNDbCATZDQ9
Pare che l'autore abbia una buona reputazione.
E da questo:
La borsa di Calvi: Ior, P2, mafia: le lettere e i segreti mai svelati del banchiere di Dio https://www.amazon.it/dp/B00SYW8D64/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iYCNDbXR4T1FX
Ma non so se devo considerare la prefazione di Travaglio come un buon segno o meno.
Ma per l'appunto era proprio la mia impressione, che ci fosse un sacco di spazzatura scandalistica.
Grazie in ogni caso per il suggerimento.
Einaudi è una casa editrice seria per quel che so.
Per lo meno mi ispira più fiducia di Newton Compton.
Sono abbastanza giovane, non ho vissuto quelle vicende in diretta sui giornali dell'epoca ma mi hanno sempre interessato.
My favorite forex "conspiracy theory" is about SNB playing with the market when they firstly put the floor in and then 4 years later when they removed it, just days after they reiterate it will hold. here is supporting evidence in form of a book Forex Case Studies I recently read :)
its $3.07, amaazon offers a digital version of kindle online, so I just read it on my computer, not a kindle device.
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Bitcoin-Digital-Currency-Gold-ebook/dp/B00KXC38K4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405264982&sr=8-1&keywords=david+seaman
Here are a few to get started with:
Breaking Banks: The Innovators, Rogues, and Strategists Rebooting Banking -- Brett King
‘Smarter Bank: Why Money Management is More Important Than Money Movement to Banks and Credit Union’ – Ron Shevlin
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World -- Don and Alex Tapscott
Die Psychologie der Börse fand ich ganz interessant, ist allerdings ein Wälzer und immer noch ziemlich teuer.
https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/dp/B00E0SER8Y
Why rely on someone on reddit summing it up? There are a lot of great sources out there for relatively laypeople. It's not a massive commitment to get through one or two of the following books that look at different parts of the collapse by actual experts. Here are a few off the top of my head:
Edit: I'm not saying /u/swiftouch1 is wrong, but it's a lot of oversimplifying. You can't actually do justice to the events in a single reddit comment.
This one is a personal favorite: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0023RSZKU?pc_redir=1408456211&robot_redir=1
>This is laughable as a CSI:Cyber scene.
Hahahaha, the laughable part is that you didn't know shit and somehow still felt like commenting.
>A currency is good for three reasons
Your first two rules fall under Information. Your third exists through backing Wealth or backing Power (either from a single issuing body or via the power of consensus). Your "reasons" don't account for inflation. Weimar Republic dollars were hard to fake, easy to use, and respected by many for use as currency. Didn't mean shit when two days later, at the supermarket, you couldn't buy a slice of bread. Overinflation is a failure to properly represent value in currency — it's an Information problem.
If you really want to talk about what makes a good currency, use the canonically accepted 7 attributes of money: durability, portability, divisibility, uniformity, limited supply, and acceptability. Sure, a few of them (like durability) have become abstract with digital currency. I'm mainly bringing them up to let you know that you need to retake economics. The 3 principles of currency viability (Information, and Power x Wealth) are factors that enable each of the 7 attributes. They are also worth talking about because they apply to the power dynamics in the show, which is what I'm really here to talk about.
All modern currencies are arguably fiat. But only to the extent that they are accepted as currency (which is either a result of consensus or a powerful backing body).
As I mentioned, commodities can also be used as a currency (ex. the historical use of rice spanning multiple cultures and centuries). It's just not done that often anymore, especially in the developed world.
Gold is and was a commodity. Gold's value isn't "magic." Scarcity and usefulness have value. Gold was historically scarce (hard to find, mine, and purify) and fit for a purpose (malleable, distinct, shiny, good for making jewelry; later for use in microchips), hence it was chosen as currency. Being a currency of course manipulates its value, but that doesn't change the fact that it has value beyond its use in currency. Is gold a great commodity? I'd say no, not anymore, it's been replaced by more useful things. Its value has become historical/symbolic.
You don't really know enough about the elements of currency to make discussing it further enjoyable, so understand that this will be my last comment to you.
Here's a good book on currency if you want to learn more. In the meantime, do not try trading on Forex. ;)
As a brokerage investor who writes software facilitating high-frequency trading across many markets and platforms, and who is very very white, I still say "cash out"
Also, stocks are not "non-assets" They're not liquid assets but they're sure as hell assets and taxed as capital. I have a book recommendation that I think will change your life