Agricultural Finance and Credit

Agricultural Finance and Credit Review

Because of the nature of front-end funding of growing crops, cyclical weather patterns and the national security aspects of agriculture, finance and credit has become a critical component of agriculture. This new book presents important analyses dealing with issues critical to maintaining a vigorous agricultural industry in America.

Year 2000 Personal Protection Guide : How to protect your assets, identity and credit from the upcoming "Millennium Bug" computer crisis

Year 2000 Personal Protection Guide : How to protect your assets, identity and credit from the upcoming "Millennium Bug" computer crisis Review

Straightforward guide telling individuals what practical steps they should take to prepare for Year 2000 problems. Neither a doomsday prediction nor a candy-coated view, this book guides you through a reasonable and cost-effective series of steps to protect records, assets, credit rating, and identity from expected computer errors. Includes checklists of potential problems from the companies with whom you deal, and contingency planning checklist. Includes suggested letters to write to suppliers and others. Other sources tell you to obtain hard-copies of records - this book tells you what to do with those records: how to determine in advance if prone to problems, and how to recognize problem potentials before other people see them. Numerous "insider" hints to protect from whatever level problems ensue from the upcoming Year 2000 issue.

Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit: A Guide for Investors (The Wiley Finance Series)

Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit: A Guide for Investors (The Wiley Finance Series) Review

Over the past decade, credit derivatives have emerged as the key financial innovation in global capital markets. At end 2004, the market size hit .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