Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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Banks Said Poised to Settle With CFTC in FX-Rigging Cases

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:43 AM PST

Cost of Doing Business: Banks Poised to Settle With CFTC in Forex-Rigging Cases http://t.co/HhZQwOC1Lx — Pedro da Costa (@pdacosta) November 11, 2014

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Five Tech Challenges Banks Face in Next Year's Stress Tests

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:43 AM PST

Five Tech Challenges Banks Face in Next Year's Stress Tests http://t.co/v44fkZEABr via @BankTechNews #StressTest #StressTesting — D. Geromichalos ScD…

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Smart Beta - Wealthfront Knowledge Center

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:43 AM PST

Malkiel: "Smart Beta" portfolios are more a testament to smart marketing than smart investing" https://t.co/WYWvrX6Btn — Emanuel Derman (@EmanuelDerman)…

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: Bad Paper

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 02:17 AM PST

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Vendor News: Infosys Finacle Implements Real-Time Core Banking Platform for Discover Financial Services

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 01:57 AM PST

Infosys announces that it has successfully implemented its Finacle™ core banking solution for Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS), a leading US direct bank and payment services company. The new Finacle platform provides Discover with real-time processing and customer servicing for the company’s deposits portfolio.

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Published / Preprint: Information Acquisition in Rumor-Based Bank Runs

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 12:48 AM PST

We study information acquisition and dynamic withdrawal decisions when a spreading rumor exposes a solvent bank to a run. Uncertainty about the bank's liquidity and potential failure motivates depositors who hear the rumor to acquire additional noisy signals. Depositors with less informative signals may wait before gradually running on the bank, leading to an endogenous aggregate withdrawal speed...

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Published / Preprint: Should Derivatives Be Privileged in Bankruptcy?

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 12:48 AM PST

Derivatives enjoy special status in bankruptcy: they are exempt from the automatic stay and effectively senior to virtually all other claims. We propose a corporate finance model to assess the effect of these exemptions on a firm's cost of borrowing and incentives to engage in derivative transactions. While derivatives are value-enhancing risk management tools, seniority for derivatives can lead...

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Merging the suits with the jeans: the new fintech formula

Posted: 11 Nov 2014 12:47 AM PST

I’ve been spending more and more time thinking about this conundrum of the suits versus jeans brigade, or Bordeaux versus beer if you prefer.  If you haven’t caught the drift, it’s all about fintech and how banks (suits) come to work together with tech (jeans).read more...

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Published / Preprint: INDEX TO VOLUME LXIX

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:08 PM PST

Published / Preprint: INDEX TO VOLUME LXIX

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:08 PM PST

Published / Preprint: Preliminary Program AFA 2015 BOSTON MEETINGS

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:08 PM PST

Published / Preprint: CALL FOR PAPERS

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 07:07 PM PST

Published / Preprint: It's not the economy, stupid! How social capital and GDP relate to happiness over time. (arXiv:1411.2138v1 [q-fin.EC])

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

What predicts the evolution over time of subjective well-being? We correlate the trends of subjective well-being with the trends of social capital and/or GDP. We find that in the long and medium run social capital largely predicts the trends of subjective wellbeing in our sample of countries. In the short-term this relationship weakens. Indeed, in the short run, changes in social capital predict...

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Published / Preprint: Evolving intraday foreign exchange trading strategies utilizing multiple instruments price series. (arXiv:1411.2153v1 [cs.NE])

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

We propose a Genetic Programming architecture for the generation of foreign exchange trading strategies. The system's principal features are the evolution of free-form strategies which do not rely on any prior models and the utilization of price series from multiple instruments as input data. This latter feature constitutes an innovation with respect to previous works documented in literature. In...

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Published / Preprint: Innovation, competition, diversification: a tree form dynamics of long-term development. (arXiv:1411.2167v1 [q-fin.EC])

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

This paper provides an individual-based foundation for the logistic and Lotka-Volterra equations which describe the diffusion of an innovation or the competition between old and new alternatives, then presents two extensions of this basic model. First, it extends the short-term competition to a long-term process characterized by a sequence of innovations and substitutions. Next, by allowing the...

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Published / Preprint: Irreversible Investment under L\'evy Uncertainty: an Equation for the Optimal Boundary. (arXiv:1411.2395v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

We derive a new equation for the optimal investment boundary of a general irreversible investment problem under exponential L\'evy uncertainty. The problem is set as an infinite time-horizon, two-dimensional degenerate singular stochastic control problem. In line with the results recently obtained in a diffusive setting, we show that the optimal boundary is intimately linked to the unique...

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Published / Preprint: A Quadratic Optimization Framework for Credit Portfolio. (arXiv:1411.2525v1 [q-fin.PM])

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

A novel quadratic optimization framework for credit portfolio is introduced when the portfolio risk is measured by Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). This method is formulated in terms of the Lagrange multiplier method subjected under an artificial quadratic error term, which is comparable to the amount or cost of total portfolio adjustment, as the necessary constraint. The route toward the...

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STATTRAK | Helping you find your way in a data-centric world.

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 09:11 AM PST

Resources from ASA for statistics students, recent stats grads, young stats professionals -STATTR@K - http://t.co/ZT9topfzRw — Dave Giles (@DEAGiles) November…

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Dangerous Brinkmanship: Close Military Encounters Between Russia and the West in 2014

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 09:11 AM PST

Dangerous Brinkmanship: Close Military Encounters Between Russia and the West in 2014 http://t.co/7tEsr4ptSP — Risk Management (@Risk_Mgmt) November 10, 2014

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Portfolio Investment in Emerging Markets: More Than Just Ebb and Flow

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 08:27 AM PST

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