Modern Banking

Over the past decade financial service innovations have contributed to a completely new way in which customers can bank, threatening the status quo of traditional retail banks, and redefining a banking model which has been in place for generations. These new technological advancements have facilitated the rapid emergence of digital banking firms and FinTech companies, leading to established banks being forced to swiftly increase their pace of digital adoption.

Fragen Sie sich gelegentlich auch warum alles ständig teurer wird? Warum Wohnraum in den letzten Jahren unbezahlbar geworden ist, und weshalb Ihr Geld auf der Bank täglich weniger wird? Mit dem enormen technologischen Fortschritt, den wir erreicht haben, sollten wir eigentlich ein Leben in Glückseligkeit, Frieden und Gelassenheit genießen. Die Geldschöpfung im 21. Jahrhundert ist mittlerweile äußerst komplex geworden, und Sie werden nur mit erheblichem Zeitaufwand und größter Anstrengung durchschauen, wie sie im Detail funktioniert.

The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age.

From the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Lords of Finance, another magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity through the prism of the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of...

Investment in financial technology is booming at unprecedented rates. Despite traditional banking protests, the world of banking is going through a transformation and will continue to go through a change. With all the new technology that we have today, it is almost mind-blowing to think about the kind of technology that we will have in another ten years or so. The change is going to keep coming, the only thing we can do is get on board with it.