Monday, November 17, 2014

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MoneyScience News

Vendor News: Businesses Willing to Trust Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud: Infosys Study

Posted: 17 Nov 2014 02:07 AM PST

Infosys announces the findings of a survey that revealed that cloud is being widely adopted for applications central to business success, with 81 percent respondents either using or planning to use mission-critical apps on cloud in the next two years.

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Man has NFC chips injected into his hands to store cold Bitcoin wallet

Posted: 17 Nov 2014 12:53 AM PST

Man has NFC chips injected into his hands to store cold Bitcoin wallet http://t.co/G4Kh4uQ9nm — moneyscience (@moneyscience) November 17, 2014

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Why is a strong payments system important?

Posted: 17 Nov 2014 12:40 AM PST

Payments is tightly coupled with economic success and failureread more...

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Published / Preprint: Impact investment funds for frontier markets in Southeast Asia: Creating a platform for institutional capital, high-quality foreign direct investment, and proactive policy

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 11:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Market-timing skills of socially responsible investment fund managers: The case of North America versus Europe

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 11:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Legitimate speculation versus excessive speculation

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 11:25 PM PST



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Published / Preprint: Country ETFs, currencies and international diversification

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 11:25 PM PST



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Blog Post: Luigi.Ballabio: Odds and ends: date calculations

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 10:06 PM PST

Published / Preprint: Holding Period Information in Options Hedging. (arXiv:1411.3947v1 [q-fin.MF])

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 05:39 PM PST

We examine the possibility of incorporating information or views of market movements during the holding period of a portfolio, in the hedging of European options with respect to the underlying. Given a holding period interval that is bounded below, we explore whether it is possible to adjust the number of shares needed to effectively hedge our position to account for views on market dynamics from...

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Published / Preprint: Multi-curve HJM modelling for risk management. (arXiv:1411.3977v1 [q-fin.RM])

Posted: 16 Nov 2014 05:39 PM PST

We present a HJM approach to the projection of multiple yield curves developed to capture the volatility content of historical term structures for risk management purposes. Since we observe the empirical data at daily frequency and only for a finite number of time to maturity buckets, we propose a modelling framework which is inherently discrete. In particular, we show how to approximate the HJM...

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