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Simple steps to beautiful rooms—the Cecil Hayes way Beauty, elegance, and attention to the smallest detail. These are the hallmarks of rooms created by acclaimed interior designerCecil Hayes, the first African-American to be named one of the country's Top 100 interior designers byArchitectural Digest. She has worked her magic in the homes of countless celebrity clients, including Samuel L. Jackson, Ty Law and Timbaland. Now readers can use Hayes' nine steps to transform their ordinary rooms into dream spaces. Inspiring yet practical, the ideas and techniques she shares in this easy-to-follow guide—now in paperback for the first time—give everyone the confidence to live beautifully. • Designer-to-the-stars Hayes offers practical step-by-step decorating ideas • Create warm, inviting rooms
Investment banks play a critically important role in channeling capital from investors to corporations. Not only do they float and distribute new corporate securities, they also assist companies in the private placement of securities, arrange mergers and acquisitions, devise specialized financing, and provide other corporate financial services. After sketching the history and evolution of investment banking, the authors describe the structure of the industry, focusing on the competitive forces at work within it today. They explore patterns of concentration and analyze the strategic and economic factors that underlie those patterns. The authors directly examine the pairing up of investment ba...
Mirroring the expansion of wealth in the Middle East and Asia and a surge in Islamic self-identity, Islamic banking practices have either become the law of the land or coexist and compete with Western practices in at least six countries. A growing number of institutions and mutual funds (akin to Western ''socially responsible'' funds) have established Islamic investment and other practices to cater to this burgeoning market. Because of its prevalence, practitioners in every banking-related area must familiarize themselves with current Islamic finance practices in order to do business with Muslim clients and to engage in cross-border financing. Injunctions from the "Qur'an and the sayings of Prophet Muhammed have generated a web of interrelated norms which prohibit Islamic financiers from engaging in transactions that involve interest "(riba) and speculation "(gharar). "Islamic Law and Finance describes the dynamic set of Islamically-sanctioned ways financiers can transacat business.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Describes the evolution of the securities industry from the 1920s to the implementation of rule 415.
This volume chronicles the sweeping changes that have taken place in the regulation of the financial markets. The contributors cover fragmentation and integration in financial services, the advent of price competition in commercial banking, the increasing importance of institutions in investing, and price competition in the market for new issues of corporate securities. They also discuss Wall Street and the public interest. ISBN 0-87584-183-X: $14.95.