This is a list of resources that I found useful to learn about finance and tech. I update this on a semi-regular basis.
Books
- The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
- Chokepoints by Edward Fishman – financial chokepoints and sanctions
- Exorbitant Privilege by Barry Eichengreen – Dollarization and its benefits
- The End of Alchemy by Mervyn King
- Other People’s Money by John Kay
- The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil
- Bonds Without Borders by Chris O’Malley – Eurobonds market
- Trading & Exchanges by Larry Harris
- All you need to know about the City by Christopher Stoakes – Guide to navigate the different financial businesses in the City/Wall Street
- Crashed by Adam Tooze – Best reconstruction of the 2008 Financial Crisis and its worldwide impact
- Business models in European banking
- Financial Shenanigangs by Howard Schilit – Financial frauds
- The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson – One of the most comprehensive book on the history of money
- The History of Money by Jack Weatherford
- Money changes everything by William Goetzmann – Great book on the history of money
- A piece of the action by Joe Nocera – History of the financialization of the US in the post WW2 era
- Seeing tomorrow by Ron Dembo, Andrew Freeman – History of risk
- Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein – History of risk
- Technological revolutions and financial capital by Carlota Perez – Best book to understand technology cycles
- The end of banking by Jonathan McMillan – Great book on the mechanics of shadow banking
- The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz – Classic book of traditional startup theory
- The sovereign individual by James D. Davidson and William Rees-Mogg – Controversial but interesting
- The true believer by Eric Hoffer – Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
- Narrative economics by Robert J. Shiller – On the impact of narratives in human behaviour and human economic decisions
Courses
- Critical reasoning for beginners (Oxford University) – LINK
- Economics of money and banking (Columbia University) – LINK
- Financial accounting (Wharton University) Part1, Part2
- SQL Foundation – LINK
- Architecting Big Data Solutions – Key big data tech solutions
- Investors Amnesia – Manias and bubbles throughout history
- Behavioural Finance – How people’s make financial decisions? What drives their choices?
- Credit risk modelling with Python – LINK
TO BE CONTINUED…
