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  2. Finance - Wikipedia

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    Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency, assets and liabilities. [a] As a subject of study, it is related to but distinct from economics, which is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

  3. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Quizlet was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student, [2] and released to the public in January 2007. [3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet. [4]

  4. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    They would set up their stalls in the middle of enclosed courtyards called macella on a long bench called a bancu, [citation needed] from which the words banco and bank are derived. [111] As a money changer, the merchant at the bancu did not so much invest money as merely convert the foreign currency into the only legal tender in Rome—that of ...

  5. Robert Morris (financier) - Wikipedia

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    The bank did not engage in the full range of modern banking activities, but it did accept deposits and provide a potential model for monetary reforms at the national level. [68] The success of the bank provided a boost to Morris's popularity, and in October 1780, he won election to the state legislature. [69]

  6. Interest - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 December 2024. This article is about the financial term. For other uses, see Interest (disambiguation). Sum paid for the use of money A bank sign in Malawi listing the interest rates for deposit accounts at the institution and the base rate for lending money to its customers In finance and economics ...

  7. Mathematical finance - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical finance, also known as quantitative finance and financial mathematics, is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with mathematical modeling in the financial field. In general, there exist two separate branches of finance that require advanced quantitative techniques: derivatives pricing on the one hand, and risk and portfolio ...

  8. Personal finance - Wikipedia

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    Personal finance is the financial management that an individual or a family unit performs to budget, save, and spend monetary resources in a controlled manner, taking into account various financial risks and future life events.

  9. Louis Bachelier - Wikipedia

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    Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier (French:; 11 March 1870 – 28 April 1946) [1] was a French mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his doctoral thesis The Theory of Speculation (Théorie de la spéculation, defended in 1900).