Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: 2012: Technologies create the Perfect Storm

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:47 AM PST

The #1 buzz phrase that everyone has grown to hate (especially Ron Shevlin) is Big Data.  Sure, you may hate it, but it is still pretty important, as I blogged a wee while ago.read more...

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RT @Vince75015: When R, or any other language, is not enough http://t.co/Ru3RnIfj #quant

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:20 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @Vince75015: When R, or any other language, is not enough http://t.co/Ru3RnIfj #quant

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RT @MrVikas: Prof. Andrew Lo talks about how the LIBOR scandal happened, and whether it's time for a new benchmark http://t.co/daPNhoVi

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:20 AM PST

moneyscience: RT @MrVikas: Prof. Andrew Lo talks about how the LIBOR scandal happened, and whether it's time for a new benchmark http://t.co/daPNhoVi

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Blog Post: filmackay: AFR: Pay up, high-frequency traders told

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 02:06 AM PST

The AFR ran an article on HFT, purporting to report on an increased desire to push more supervision costs onto HFT. The central tennant of the article does not make sense, and perhaps by extension the Treasury report it's based on.read more...

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Nominations are being accepted for the 2013 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation http://t.co/YqwFupkY

Posted: 19 Dec 2012 01:26 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Nominations are being accepted for the 2013 Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation http://t.co/YqwFupkY

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68 ⸠Top stories today via @McGillU @ColumbiaBizNews @Bob_Bruner

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 11:32 PM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/mgDaff68 â–¸ Top stories today via @McGillU @ColumbiaBizNews @Bob_Bruner

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Another Crank

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:45 PM PST

As critic of modern economics, I am often contacted by other critics, or fans of other critics. Alas, I often find them not even wrong, as in2 + zebra ÷ glockenspiel = homeopathy works! Steve Keen was recommended, and I looked him up. Interestingly he's a huge Minsky fan. I admire Minsky, because he was intellectually honest and curious, and had some really good insights. If you read his...

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Published / Preprint: A Note on "A Family of Maximum Entropy Densities Matching Call Option Prices". (arXiv:1212.4279v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:34 PM PST

In Neri and Schneider (2012) we presented a method to recover the Maximum Entropy Density (MED) inferred from prices of call and digital options on a set of n strikes. To find the MED we need to numerically invert a one-dimensional function for n values and a Newton-Raphson method is suggested. In this note we revisit this inversion problem and show that it can be rewritten in terms of the...

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Published / Preprint: Information content of financial markets: a practical approach based on Bohmian quantum mechanics. (arXiv:1212.4293v1 [q-fin.GN])

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:33 PM PST

The Bohmian quantum approach is implemented to analyze the financial markets. In this approach, there is a wave function that leads to a quantum potential. This potential can explain the relevance and entanglements of the agent's behaviors with the past. The light is shed by considering the relevance of the market conditions with the previous market conditions enabling the conversion of the local...

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Blog Post: rob_daly: A New Google+ Community for Financial Technology

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:56 AM PST

A New Google+ Community for Financial Technologyread more...

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Featured Book: Profiting from Monetary Policy - Investing Through the Business Cycle http://t.co/CXfEK3O5 @PalMacFinance @ThomasAubreyCCA

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:38 AM PST

BusinessSchools: Featured Book: Profiting from Monetary Policy - Investing Through the Business Cycle http://t.co/CXfEK3O5 @PalMacFinance @ThomasAubreyCCA

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ICMA Centre Profiles â Yihan Zhou

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:46 AM PST

One of our recent recipients fo the Chancellor’s Award takes some time out from his studies to answer some questions for us. What inspires you about your chosen subject of study? It has long been my dream to work in the finance industry, which inspired me to choose Finance and Investment Banking at the ICMA Centre. The subject provides meContinue reading

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Published / Preprint: 18Dec/Revisions to the Basel Securitisation Framework, consultative document published by the Basel Committee

Posted: 18 Dec 2012 06:36 AM PST

Press release about the Basel Committee releasing "Revisions to the Basel Securitisation Framework - consultative document" (18 December 2012)

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