Thursday, November 20, 2014

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The biggest disruption in banking is NOT technology - The Financial Services Club's blog - MoneyScience

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 04:28 AM PST

.@Chris_Skinner - The biggest disruption in banking is NOT technology http://t.co/5MIlptiC9I — moneyscience (@moneyscience) November 20, 2014

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Vendor News: Infosys positioned as a leader in Magic Quadrant for International Retail Core Banking by Gartner, Inc

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:01 AM PST

Infosys announced that following the evaluation of Finacle̢㢠Core Banking Solution, it has been positioned as a leader in Gartner̢۪s Magic Quadrant for International Retail Core Banking report. This is the eighth time in a row that Infosys has been named a leader in this Magic Quadrant.

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The biggest disruption in banking is NOT technology

Posted: 20 Nov 2014 12:21 AM PST

Researching crowdfunding and P2P lending, I found three research reports and a newspaper article that give you a tip for the future of banking.read more...

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Published / Preprint: Optimal Mean Reversion Trading with Transaction Cost and Stop-Loss Exit. (arXiv:1411.5062v1 [q-fin.TR])

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

Motivated by the industry practice of pairs trading, we study the optimal timing strategies for trading a mean-reverting price spread. An optimal double stopping problem is formulated to analyze the timing to start and subsequently liquidate the position subject to transaction costs. Modeling the price spread by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, we apply a probabilistic methodology and rigorously...

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Published / Preprint: Large deviations of the realized (co-)volatility vector. (arXiv:1411.5159v1 [math.PR])

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 05:37 PM PST

Realized statistics based on high frequency returns have become very popular in financial economics. In recent years, different non-parametric estimators of the variation of a log-price process have appeared. These were developed by many authors and were motivated by the existence of complete records of price data. Among them are the realized quadratic (co-)variation which is perhaps the most...

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Education: Building a learning continuum from scratch

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 08:54 AM PST

30 years ago, complexity education wasn't. Ginger Richardson recounts this program's hardscrabble creation http://t.co/CTAVbCmb9e — Santa Fe Institute…

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Growth: An Essential Part of a Cure for Unemployment

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 07:32 AM PST

By Davide Furceri and Prakash Lounganiread more...

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Growing importance of Historical Market data

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 05:39 AM PST

The market data industry has been a hub of activity in the last few years. A number of leading global exchange groups have used their proprietary market data to create a steady revenue stream for themselves. Various other firms are also trying to utilize their market data processing capabilities and create a niche in the market. Against this larger backdrop, Celent has been conducting some...

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