Wednesday, July 23, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: That weird and wonderful thing called bitcoin

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:10 AM PDT

I keep getting into debates about bitcoin and when banks should take notice of bitcoin.read more...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Understanding Insurance Float

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 03:10 AM PDT

Warren Buffett has made such an impression on value investors and insurance investors, that they think that float is magic.  Write insurance, gain float, invest cleverly against the float, and make tons of money.read more...

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Financial Institutions Unprepared For Digital Future - The Financial Services Club's blog - MoneyScience

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 02:38 AM PDT

.@Chris_Skinner - Financial Institutions Unprepared For Digital Future http://t.co/zC7r9PyBC7 — moneyscience (@moneyscience) July 22, 2014

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Published / Preprint: One-level limit order books with sparsity and memory. (arXiv:1407.5684v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 22 Jul 2014 05:38 PM PDT

Motivated by Cont and Larrard (2013)'s seminal Limit Order Book (LOB) model, we propose two continuous-time models for the level I of a LOB in which the arrivals of limit orders, market orders, and cancellations are assumed to be mutually independent, memoryless, and stationary, but, unlike the aforementioned paper, the proposed models also account for some of the sparsity and memory exhibited by...

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Published / Preprint: Linear vector optimization and European option pricing under proportional transaction costs. (arXiv:1407.5877v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 22 Jul 2014 05:38 PM PDT

A method for pricing and superhedging European options under proportional transaction costs based on linear vector optimisation and geometric duality developed by Lohne & Rudloff (2014) is compared to a special case of the algorithms for American type derivatives due to Roux & Zastawniak (2014). An equivalence between these two approaches is established by means of a general result...

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Euro Area: An Unbalanced Rebalancing?

Posted: 22 Jul 2014 08:09 AM PDT

By John Bluedorn and Shengzu Wangread more...

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