The Bank Analyst’s Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks
The Bank Analyst’s Handbook: Money, Risk and Conjuring Tricks
It is not uncommon to meet professionals in financial services who have only a vague idea of what their colleagues actually do. The root cause is specialization and the subsequent development of jargon that makes communication between common specialists faster and more precise but is virtually impenetrable to everybody else.
The Bank Analyst’s Handbook provides a modern introduction to financial markets and intermediation. Individual subject areas are covered in a thorough but clear and succinct manner. The breadth of the author’s experience as a sell-side bank analyst is exploited to good effect to pull together these threads and create a coherent framework for the analysis of financial markets, whether these are in advanced economies or developing markets.
The Handbook is well-written and highly accessible. It builds on orthodox financial theory (with all of its flaws and controversies) but also highlights many of the real problems involved with translating such theory into practice. It can be appreciated at many different levels and this explains its wide target readership. The Bank Analyst’s Handbook:
- Bridges the gap between the more superficial introductory books and specialist works
- Covers all the important functions and subjects related to the financial services industry
- Provides a comprehensive overview for financial services professionals, business school students, consultants, accountants, auditors and legal practitioners, analysts and fund-managers and corporate managers.
“An excellent guide for any professionals who are coming into the banking industry. Extremely well-written, covering clearly and lucidly a range of topics which many bankers themselves don’t understand. I will make this book mandatory reading – no, make that studying – for anybody I hire to work as a financial sector consultant.”
—Chris Matten, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
“A great insight into the often murky and impenetrable world of banking… compulsory reading for analysts and investors alike.”
—Hugh Young, Managing Director, Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd
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Home Mortgage Loan Processing – Mortgage Lending
Home Mortgage Loan Processing – Mortgage Lending
Mortgage lending is one of the most secure, respected, and exciting career opportunities available. Each day will bring you challenges that you will overcome, the excitement of helping to create a loan program that meets the needs of both the borrower and the lender, and the satisfaction of helping each borrower achieve their dreams of home ownership. Home Mortgage Loan Processing is an excellent career opportunity that provides stability, advancement, and a sense of satisfaction to each loan processor who obtains the knowledge and skills necessary to excel within the profession.
The training contained in the course provides specific information concerning the loan process and the part you and others play in that process. The information we offer in this program provides you with the foundation that you need to become a well rounded mortgage professional. The top of your field, you will specialize in the overall picture. You will develop the perfect mix of knowledge and skills, add to it the creativity required when overcoming the specific issues that occur during the loan process, and gain the ability to reach the top of your profession.
The skills you are attaining will make you a commodity that is in high-demand in the market. Loan officers need efficient loan processors to function well and to achieve success. Underwriters rely on well-trained loan processors to ensure competently prepared loan files. Lending institutions depend on carefully trained and customer service oriented loan processors to enhance their reputation as a lender who cares about the overall experience of each borrower
The room for advancement within the field of home mortgage lending is tremendous. Mortgage lending is a growing industry. This continued growth creates a constant need for properly trained professionals. You will be an integral part of this industry from the first day on the job. As an important part of the industry, you will prove your desire, drive, and abilities daily and thus ensure that advancement opportunities come your way.
Loan processing is more than just processing paper. You will be involved in nearly every aspect of the loan. Lending is an exciting industry that fulfills the dreams of your borrowers. A primary portion of your new position will be to assist every individual in overcoming any issue that arises during the loan process that may delay or even stop the loan closing. You will play an essential role in ensuring that each borrower whose file comes across your desk fulfills their dream and becomes a homeowner.
The satisfaction you receive from a job well done will keep you excited to return to work each day. Your loan officer and loan office will have small goals as well as large goals. You will be one of the most important components in reaching those goals.
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Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century Reviews
Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century
The U.S. home mortgage industry first formalized risk criteria in the 1920s and 1930s to determine which applicants should receive funds. Over the past eighty years, these formulae have become more sophisticated. Guy Stuart demonstrates that the very concepts on which lenders base their decisions reflect a set of social and political values about “who deserves what.” Stuart examines the fine line between licit choice and illicit discrimination, arguing that lenders, while eradicating blatantly discriminatory practices, have ignored the racial and economic-class biases that remain encoded in their decision processes. He explains why African Americans and Latinos continue to be at a disadvantage in gaining access to loans: discrimination, he finds, results from the interaction between the way lenders make decisions and the way they shape the social structure of the mortgage and housing markets.Mortgage lenders, Stuart contends, are embedded in and shape a social context that can best be understood in terms of rules, networks, and the production of space. Stuart’s history of lenders’ risk criteria reveals that they were synthesized from rules of thumb, cultural norms, and untested theories. In addition, his interviews with real estate and lending professionals in the Chicago housing market show us how the criteria are implemented today. Drawing on census and Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for quantitative support, Stuart concludes with concrete policy proposals that take into account the social structure in which lenders make decisions.
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