e-Finance: The Electronic Revolution

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 220 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition May 30, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 047156026X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471560265
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.1 pounds

Product Description
Digital finance is the latest hot topic as financial institutions grapple with the impact of e-commerce. Electronic trading, managing e-commerce risk, B2B exchanges, e-brokers, Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) are all bringing opportunities and challenges to the financial sector. eFinance looks at all these areas and provides a readable, non-technical overview of this dynamic sector.
The book takes a look at the development of e-commerce business models, as well as the technology and the funding of digital finance. eFinance then moves on to explore the financial services that are available to both institutional and individual customers outlining the advantages and disadvantages of traditional and virtual banking and exploring potential areas of growth and future developments focusing on competition and market structures.
* Contains numerous industry examples that illustrate the expansion, failures, successes and future of digital finance, including Schwab, Fidelity, Citibank, London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse, Egg/Prudential, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Virgin

From the Inside Flap
This book is the first to address the securities, banking and insurance sectors very specifically. It discusses in detail the practical developments that have occurred since the mid-1990s, with a particular emphasis on both the retail and institutional sectors.