Hannover, Germany

Banking and Insurance Industries

Bank- und Versicherungswesen

Bachelor's
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Banking and Insurance Industries at University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover

Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: economy and administration
Qualification: Bachelor
Kind of studies: part-time studies
dual studies dual studies
University website: www.hs-hannover.de

Definitions and quotes

Insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss.
Banking
I am just a banker "doing God’s work".
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Goldman Sachs, 2009 statement. Source: Wall Street Journal, May 2010.
Banking
Commercial banks create checkbook money whenever they grant a loan, simply by adding new deposit dollars in accounts on their books in exchange for a borrower's IOU.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Friedman, David H. (1977). I Bet You Thought.... p. 19. OCLC 5356154. 
Insurance
Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
Gary Hamel in:Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation, Forbes, 4 December 2012.
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