Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at
2:28 am
Standard & Poor’s Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis
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An authoritative, in-depth guide to all aspects of credit analysis from the experts at Standard & Poor’s
Credit analysis–gauging an issuer’s ability to repay interest and principal on a bond issue–plays an essential role in determining how bond issues are rated and priced. Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis provides both analysts and investors with the practical, up-to-date information they need, backed by Standard & Poor’s research, data, and experience, to properly assess the credit risk of virtually any entity.
Whether used as a handy all-in-one guide or as a comprehensive training tool, it will give anyone the knowledge and tools needed to dig beneath standard ratings and determine an organization’s true creditworthiness.
Standard & Poor’s Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at
12:28 pm
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown
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The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it?
Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a source of worry and dashed expectations. How did everything go haywire? And what can we do about it now?
In The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, renowned finance expert James Barth offers a comprehensive examination of the mortgage meltdown. Together with a team of economists at the Milken Institute, he explores the shock waves that have rippled through the entire financial sector and the real economy. Deploying an incredibly detailed and extensive set of data, the book offers in-depth analysis of the mortgage meltdown and the resulting worldwide financial crisis. This authoritative volume explores what went wrong in every critical area, including securitization, loan origination practices, regulation and supervision, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, leverage and accounting practices, and of course, the rating agencies. The authors explain the steps the government has taken to address the crisis thus far, arguing that we have yet to address the larger issues.
- Offers a comprehensive examination of the mortgage market meltdown and its reverberations throughout the financial sector and the real economy
- Explores several important issues that policymakers must address in any future reshaping of financial market regulations
- Addresses how we can begin to move forward and prevent similar crises from shaking the foundations of our financial system
The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets analyzes the factors that should drive reform and explores the issues that policymakers must confront in any future reshaping of financial market regulations.
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown
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Monday, November 9th, 2009 at
6:16 am
Buy Bio-Inspired Credit Risk Analysis: Computational Intelligence with Support Vector Machines at Amazon
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Credit risk analysis is one of the most important topics in the field of financial risk management. Due to recent financial crises and regulatory concern of Basel II, credit risk analysis has been the major focus of financial and banking industry. Especially for some credit-granting institutions such as commercial banks and credit companies, the ability to discriminate good customers from bad ones is crucial. The need for reliable quantitative models that predict defaults accurately is imperative so that the interested parties can take either preventive or corrective action. Hence credit risk analysis becomes very important for sustainability and profit of enterprises. In such backgrounds, this book tries to integrate recent emerging support vector machines and other computational intelligence techniques that replicate the principles of bio-inspired information processing to create some innovative methodologies for credit risk analysis and to provide decision support information for interested parties.
Buy Bio-Inspired Credit Risk Analysis: Computational Intelligence with Support Vector Machines at Amazon
