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This study analyzes the state of development and prospects of future growth of Turkish nonbank financial institutions and capital markets. Currently, credit markets in Turkey are dominated by banking, and capital markets are dominated by Government securities. Longstanding macro-economic instability and inflation have discouraged investment in financial assets and crowded out funding for the private sector. The resulting lack of depth and breadth has made the financial sector vulnerable to shocks resulting in repeated crises, and has reduced its intermediation efficiency. To enhance the financial sector's capacity to support private sector development and economic growth, and to reduce its vulnerability to shocks, non-bank sources of finance should be developed. The report identifies the key policy issues that should be addressed for this purpose. The discussion and policy recommendations are structured around the following leading themes: (i) mobilizing savings; (ii) building an institutional investor base comprising insurance companies, private pension funds and mutual funds; (iii) developing equity, debt and derivative markets; (iv) developing leasing, factoring and venture capital companies; and (v) strengthening confidence in financial markets through improved corporate governance, accounting and auditing standards and practices and financial sector regulation and supervision.

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"SET" (Secure Electronic Transactions) is the electronic payment protocol recently selected by VISA, MasterCard and other major credit card companies as the new global standard for ensuring security and confidentiality when linking credit card holders, merchants, and financial institutions conducting business over the Internet. This detailed, yet reader-friendly guide to understanding this sophisticated technology will be one of the first -- if not the first -- books on this hot topic and is "must reading" for programmers and business managers who need to know how SET will impact their businesses.

Authored by a well-known conference speaker and writer for leading computer magazines, the book provides readers with a working knowledge of what electronic commerce is, and the various payment and security systems that have led to online credit card commerce, familiarity with the cryptographic extensions utilized by the SET system, the technical details behind SET, from purchase initiation, through certificate management, to data transport protocols, programming examples and computer code for constructing and rolling out a SET system.

The book includes a bound-in CD-ROM with a working demonstration of electronic commerce using the SET protocol, and ready-made protocol routines that programmers can use as a guide for SET implementation.

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Secure Electronic Transactions : Introduction and Technical.......2000-10-31

This book describes SET payment process & protocal standands clearly. I think someone who is new to SET process can read this book and it would definetly be helpful.

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So, you want to start your own business, but have no idea where to begin. You're searching for a clear-cut guide that will teach you the essentials without the legal and financial jargon. Business Basics by Gerard Dodd is the friendly startup publication that will help you get on your way.

Business Basics combines five workbooks covering topics from writing a business plan to analyzing your market, and gives you the tools you need to plan and implement your business in one easy to read package. The book will teach you how to present your entrepreneurial ideas in a business plan, how to get the proper funding to start your venture, and how to market your idea successfully. You will also learn how to manage your time and your personnel, and how to review your overall operation to ensure it is running at maximum efficiency.

By using helpful checklists and illustrations and filling out sample forms and questionnaires, readers can determine what they're doing right in starting and running their businesses, and how they can improve. Whether you've only begun to consider starting a business or you have a venture in place, Business Basics can help you improve your management techniques and increase your chances of success.

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to the point, easy-reading guide !.......2003-04-13

Ideal for those who want a concise, easy-reading guide with templates and exercises to all the elements of starting a business.

I personnally liked it and the presentation and illustrations throws a fresh light into the fact that starting a business should be exciting and a journey by itself and not a destination !

I recommend it.

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A quick-reference guide to professional writing essentials, Writing on the Job gives you the help you need to communicate effectively in any business or organization.

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EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO WRITES ON THE JOB!.......1998-12-11

THIS BOOK OFFERS EXCELLENT WRITING INFORMATION. A MUST FOR SOMEONE WHO WORKS IN A PROFESSIONAL WRITING RELATED FIELD OR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVELY.I REALLY ENJOYED READING, WRITING ON THE JOB. HIGHLY RECOMMANDED. THANKS JB

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DON'T SWEAT GUIDE TO YOUR JOB SEARCH, THE: FINDING A CAREER YOU REALLY LOVE (Don't Sweat Guides)
Editors of Don't Sweat Press
Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute)

ASIN: 1401307604
Release Date: 2004-05-12

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inding a new job is a job in itself. Readers will quickly learn how to concentrate on the positive aspects of the search, such as finding jobs they love, rather than getting caught up in the negative aspects of rejection letters and no responses.

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A Great Feminist Work.......1998-05-11

Gilman shows the reader she is going with men in the workplace , but wants to show women are just as hard or harder workers at home than the men outside of the house. She wants to show how men think women are weaklings and she shows them wrong with her strong words against the put down of a man.

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Business genius and hedonist, Charles Schwab entered the steel industry as an unskilled laborer and within twenty years advanced to the presidency of Carnegie Steel. He later became the first president of U.S. Steel and then founder of Bethlehem Steel. His was one of the most spectacular and curious success stories in an era of great industrial giants.

How did Schwab progress from day laborer to titan of industry? Why did Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan select him to manage their multmillion-dollar enterprises? And how did he forfeit their confidence and lose the preseidency of U.S. Steel? Drawing upon previously undiscovered sources, Robert Hessen answers these questions in the first biography of Schwab.

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Well researched book on an underappreciated industrialist.......2007-10-17

Excellent book to read if you are interested in one of the lesser-remembered "Robber Barons," protege of Andrew Carnegie, and really an extraordinary person. Many of Schwab's business principles would serve executives well today. I enjoyed reading it.

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One of the pieces to the puzzle.

The Titans of Takeover
Robert Slater
Manufacturer: Beard Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1893122506

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This revealing account deals not only with those giant figures who perpetrated takeovers, but also with other featured players: investment bankers, attorneys, and arbitrageurs.

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One of the pieces to the puzzle........2007-09-27

This book chronicles the merger wave during the mid seventies to the late eighties. The book looks not only at the raiders, but also at other featured players in the takeover game: the investment bankers, attorneys, and arbitragers, considered the main personalities in the takeover game. You will find many figures depicted in this book.

Author Robert Slater was able to bring these players to life with inside descriptions of their lives. Profiled in these pages are the leading figures in the American takeover field. Titans like T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn, Saul Steinberg, and Ted Turner. As well as such behind the scenes personalities as lawyers Martin Lipton and Joseph Flom. Investment bankers Joseph Perella and Bruce Wasserstein, famous for staying in the game, gained notoriety by going after clients even after they committed to someone else.

A special chapter is dedicated to zooming in on the infamous arbitrager, Ivan Boesky. Who later on in the book clarifies the difference between a raider and an arbitrager by concluding that raiders are not arbitragers, they are party principles seeking control of companies, as opposed to impartial stock market operators, such as his self , who are basically interested in a spread as the reward.

Raiders who understand the takeover game realized the sum total of certain companies were worth less than its parts and believed that a company could not enrich itself from a lawsuit; it should only emerge whole. With this so-called credo, they found a reason to keep management on its toes. Out of this audacity and growing phenomenon, management and company boards employed a whole series of defensive tactics, ranging from the poison pill to the highly popular leveraged buyout. Nevertheless, the raiders seemed to know better. Each effort has its own problems, its own solutions. A raider who made a cash offer with an enticing premium knew that stockholders were not going to let a board of directors get in the way of making good money.

Aside from stepping over a few minor inconsistencies in historical content, this book will undeniably arouse your attention.

Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires That Control What We Read and Watch

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Clash of the Titans: How the Unbridled Ambition of Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch Has Created Global Empires That Control What We Read and Watch
Richard Hack
Manufacturer: RB Large Print
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1402568797

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What do Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch want out of life? Apart from the usual pleasures--love, fortune, good health--they apparently want to control the world's media. And, to judge by this account, each wants the other's head on a platter. "In another time, they might have dueled on a grassy plain with muskets, or faced each other at high noon at opposite ends of a dusty street, holsters slung low on their hips," writes media/entertainment pundit Hack. Turner and Murdoch have chosen to fight it out, with undisguised venom, in a singularly public venue--Turner through CNN and other networks, Murdoch through Sky and Fox TV, plus a host of magazines and newspapers. Turner espouses liberal views while Murdoch is a hard-line conservative, but both are supreme "controllers of information" and "manipulators of public opinion," according to Hack. Their fight has cost billions of dollars, and it's wounded more than a few bystanders. It has also, as Hack rightly notes, set the tone for the contemporary press, for the worse, sacrificing journalistic integrity in the interest of two "competing political agendas ... until there is one." Balanced, for the most part, if only because Hack seems to have little affection for either of his subjects, Clash of the Titans is a readable account of a private war between prideful tycoons with long memories. Media buffs will find much of interest in this portrait of "colliding storm fronts," both of whose reach extends far and wide. --Gregory McNamee --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The Legend of the Titan Corporation
Jeffrey L. Rodengen , and Richard T. Hubbard
Manufacturer: Write Stuff Syndicate
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0945903901

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this highly readable history captures the patriotism and purpose of a legendary American corporation. Intelligence and ingenuity have built Titan into a giant in the fields as diverse as information solutions and services for the U.S. government, e-business solutions, and electron beam irradiation technology, which destroys harmful pathogens on medical devices, food and even the U.S. mail.

Today, Titan, a San Diego based corporation is quite diversified with a well-rounded balance of military, government and civil contracts. Titan Systems supplies most of Titan's new Technology and is a leader in providing information systems solutions and services to the U.S. government.

Even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, world events had created a need for more sophisticated technology to protect the country, and Titan Systems met the challenge.

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Quantum3D Sentiris 4110 PMC graphics subsystem selected by Titan Corporation for hovercraft primary displays.: An article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor

Manufacturer: Millin Publishing, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B0008FQRJU
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on December 23, 2002. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Publication: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 23, 2002
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 43 Issue: 50 Page: 5

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Quantum3D Sentiris 4110 PMC graphics subsystem selected by Titan Corporation for hovercraft primary displays.: An article from: Federal Computer Market Report

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Quantum3D Sentiris 4110 PMC graphics subsystem selected by Titan Corporation for hovercraft primary displays.: An article from: Federal Computer Market Report

Manufacturer: Millin Publishing, Inc.
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ASIN: B0008FQRI6
Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Federal Computer Market Report, published by Millin Publishing, Inc. on December 23, 2002. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Publication: Federal Computer Market Report (Newsletter)
Date: December 23, 2002
Publisher: Millin Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 26 Issue: 24 Page: 8

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The Titan Corp. (Proxy Report Excerpts) (Company Profile): An article from: San Diego Business Journal

Manufacturer: CBJ, L.P.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by CBJ, L.P. on May 23, 1994. The length of the article is 648 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Publication: San Diego Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 23, 1994
Publisher: CBJ, L.P.
Volume: v15 Issue: n21 Page: p35(1)

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Titan Corporation (The)
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SGA Lists' Individual Business Lists are 100% staff verified and details the company’s roster of key professionals and key decision makers. In addition to the executive contacts, this report contains: Global HQ Location, US Address (Street, City, State & Zip), US HQ Phone Number & Company Website Address, Company Description, Ticker Symbol, Exchange, Most Recent Revenues Reported and Industry. SGA Business Lists do not include direct-dial phone numbers for all executives listed. When available, we will provide the direct phone number. We provide the HQ phone number and the accurate executive name and title. (This list contains 42 contacts)

Titan Systems Corporation: Advanced Products & Design Division. (Corporate Profiles).(Brief Article): An article from: Advanced Imaging

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This digital document is an article from Advanced Imaging, published by Cygnus Business Media on August 1, 2002. The length of the article is 455 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Titan Systems Corporation: Advanced Products & Design Division. (Corporate Profiles).(Brief Article)
Publication: Advanced Imaging (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
Volume: 17 Issue: 8 Page: 49(1)

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Titans of the Enron Economy: The ten habits of highly defective corporations

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Titans of the Enron Economy: The ten habits of highly defective corporations
Scott Klinger
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