The influence of temporal discounting on decision-making and self-control Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Discounting is the process of determining the present value of a payment or a ...

Invoice discounting, or invoice financing, is a business financing method that uses unpaid customer invoices as collateral for a loan. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Surprisingly, the origins of financial discounting began with 17th-century English clergymen. In the early 1600s, the officials running Durham Cathedral, in England, had serious financial problems.