Bilingual Dictionary of Terms Banks. Finances. Money. Financial Markets / Banques. Finances. Monnaie. Marchés Financiers METODES Editions Collection Culture & Savoir (C&S) François Elandi This bilingual work, fruit of a team of specialists and professionals, deals with banking, finance, and stock market practices with —— more than 25,000 words and terms used in French and in British and North American English of today; —— convenient examples to better assimilate the terms used, contributing to make the work the most precise reference in its specialty; and —— a cross-reference system to more precise definitions and complementary expressions to other words and terms inside the development of a word or an expression. It is intended for ——high school pupils and students of higher education, ——professional users, and ——the general public. In order for them to ——acquire and develop their professional lexicological heritage; ——master the exact terminology in the practice linked to their activity or profession; ——perfect their knowledge in banking, finance, and stock exchange practice; and ——better communicate efficiently. Cet ouvrage bilingue, fruit d’une équipe de spécialistes et de professionnels, traite des pratiques bancaires, financières et boursières, avec : ——Plus de 25000 mots et termes utilisés en français et en anglais britannique et nordaméricain ; ——Des exemples pratiques pour mieux assimiler l’emploi de ces termes, contribuant à faire de l’ouvrage la référence la plus précise dans sa spécialité ; ——Un système de renvois à des définitions et explications complémentaires et plus précises à d’autres mots et termes au sein du développement d’un mot ou d’une expression. Il est destiné : ——A l’élève des lycées et collèges ou à l’étudiant de l’enseignement supérieur ; ——A l’utilisateur professionnel ; ——Au grand public. Pour : ——Acquérir et développer son patrimoine lexicologique professionnel ; ——Maîtriser la terminologie exacte dans la pratique liée à son activité ou à sa profession ; ——Perfectionner ses connaissances dans la pratique bancaire, financière et boursière ; ——Mieux communiquer efficacement.

La crise financière de 2007 a mis en lumière l’importance vitale des produits obligataires pour nos économies, mais elle a aussi révélé la nécessité de gérer les risques qui les accompagnent. Véritable panorama de l’investissement en obligations, cet ouvrage présente une étude des taux d’intérêt et de leur structure, ainsi qu’une analyse complète des titres obligataires (obligations convertibles, indexées, à taux fixe, etc.). Il traite également de la gestion des risques sur les marchés dérivés, par des opérations de gré à gré, ou sur les marchés organisés (futures, options, swaps, dérivés de crédit). Illustré d’exemples s’appuyant sur des cotations et des performances réelles tirées de l’actualité des marchés, ce livre propose aussi des applications numériques détaillées.

Credit derivatives and structured credit A Guide for Investors Richard Bruyere with Rama Cont, Rgis Copinot, Loc Fery, Christophe Jaeck and Thomas Spitz Over the past decade, credit derivatives have emerged as the key financial innovation in global capital markets. At end 2004, the market size hit $6.4 billion (in notional amounts) from virtually nothing in 1995. This rise has been spurred by the imperative for banks to better manage their risks, not least credit risks, and the appetite shown by institutional investors and hedge funds for innovative, high yielding structured investment products. As a result, growth in collateralized debt obligations and other second-generation products, such as credit indices, is currently phenomenal. It is enabled by the standardization and increased liquidity in credit default swaps – the building block of the credit derivatives market. Written by market practitioners and specialists, this book covers the fundamentals of the credit derivatives and structured credit market, including in-depth product descriptions, analysis of real transactions, market overview, pricing models, banks business models. It is recommended reading for students in business schools and financial courses, academics, and professionals working in investment and asset management, banking, corporate treasury and the capital markets. Highlights include: Written by market practitioners and specialists with first-hand experience in the credit derivatives and structured credit market A clearly-written, pedagogical book with numerous illustrations Detailed review of real-case transactions A comprehensive historical perspective on market developments including up-to-date analysis of the latest trends

Using a variety of theoretical frameworks drawn from the social sciences, the contributions in this edited collection offer a critical perspective on the dominant paradigms used in contemporary financial activities. Through a detailed study of the organisation and functioning of financial intermediaries and institutions, the contributors to this volume analyse ‘finance in the making’, by shedding light on the structuring of banking and financial systems, on their capacity to prescribe action and control, on their modes of regulation and, more generally, on the process of financialisation. Contributions presented in this volume have been written by authors working within the ‘social studies of finance’ tradition, a research programme that emerged twenty years ago, with the aim of addressing a diversity of financial fieldworks and related theoretical questions. This book, therefore, sheds light on different areas that are representative of contemporary financial realities. Specifically, it first studies the work of financial employees: traders, salespeople, investment managers, financial analysts, investment consultants, etc. but also provides an analysis of a range of financial instruments: financial schemes and contracts, financial derivatives, socially responsible investment funds, as well as market rules and regulations. Finally, it puts into perspective the organisations contributing to this financial reality: those developing and selling financial services (retail banks, brokerage houses, asset management firms, private equity firms, etc.), and also those contributing to the regulation of such activities (banking regulators, financial market authorities, credit rating agencies, the State, to name a few). Each text can be read without any specific knowledge of finance; the book is thus addressed to anyone willing to better understand the intricacies of contemporary financial realities.

Providing a unique and clearly structured tool, this book presents an authoritative collection of carefully selected global case studies. Some of these are considered global due to their internationally relevant subject matter, whilst others demonstrate the blurring of traditional legal categories in an age of accelerated cross-border movement. The study of the selected cases in their political, cultural, social and economic contexts sheds light on the contemporary transformation of law through its encounter with conflicting forms of normativity and the multiplication of potential fora.