Thursday, August 2, 2012

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Limitations of Credit Default Swap Spreads

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 02:45 AM PDT

Once I was talking to my boss at Provident Mutual about exotic options, like barrier, knock-out, and knock-in options.  As I described them to him his reactions were:read more...

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RT @diane1859: Theorists versus scientists - blog post http://t.co/qh6TkppH

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:10 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: The Top Five Most Embarrassing Mistakes By Banks

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT

I kinda thought that some of the things that have happened in banking in the past â€" like the collapse of Lehmans and Barings Bank; Jerome Kerviel, Henry Blodgett and Frank Quattrone;  insider trading and Ponzi schemes; and more â€" were pretty bad, but someone asked me to make a list of the top five most embarrassing mistakes made by banks and, as I pondered the list, they all appeared to...

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RT @CitywireMoney: RBS tops FTSE 100 amid nationalisation reports http://t.co/b1DAfScY

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:43 AM PDT

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv ⸠Top stories today via @KelleySchool @UOBusiness @LaurierEMTM

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 12:28 AM PDT

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYluKzUv â–¸ Top stories today via @KelleySchool @UOBusiness @LaurierEMTM

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The latest trend in crowdsourcing: organizing workers en mass to do routine tasks assigned by algorithm #tcm http://t.co/8gTrmlW0

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:27 PM PDT

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The latest trend in crowdsourcing: organizing workers en mass to do routine tasks assigned by algorithm #tcm http://t.co/U70fLpTY

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:06 PM PDT

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Introducing the Twitter Political Index: Welcome to the age of big political data. #tcm http://t.co/VqUOQpHz

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:47 PM PDT

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"Banks need to start thinking of themselves as IT companies": Prof David Chan - City University @cassinthenews #tcm http://t.co/cRSmBi7k

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:47 PM PDT

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Building QuickBooks: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code #tcm http://t.co/gjDTwiIz

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 10:36 PM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Scaling, stability and distribution of the high-frequency returns of the IBEX35 index. (arXiv:1208.0317v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT

In this paper we perform a statistical analysis of the high-frequency returns of the IBEX35 Madrid stock exchange index. We find that its probability distribution seems to be stable over different time scales, a stylized fact observed in many different financial time series. However, an in-depth analysis of the data using maximum likelihood estimation and different goodness-of-fit tests rejects...

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Published / Preprint: Two Curves, One Price: Pricing & Hedging Interest Rate Derivatives Decoupling Forwarding and Discounting Yield Curves. (arXiv:0905.2770v4 [q-fin.PR] UPDATED)

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT

We revisit the problem of pricing and hedging plain vanilla single-currency interest rate derivatives using multiple distinct yield curves for market coherent estimation of discount factors and forward rates with different underlying rate tenors. read more...

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Published / Preprint: On the Multi-Dimensional Controller and Stopper Games. (arXiv:1009.0932v7 [math.OC] UPDATED)

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:34 PM PDT

We consider a zero-sum stochastic differential controller-and-stopper game in which the state process is a controlled diffusion evolving in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space. In this game, the controller affects both the drift and the volatility terms of the state process. Under appropriate conditions, we show that the game has a value and the value function is the unique viscosity solution to...

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@icmacentre: Adrian Bell announced as ICMA Centre Head of School. http://t.co/8usExy7w

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:59 PM PDT

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Blog Post: iMFdirect: Japan Stands Up

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:05 PM PDT

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: The dynamics of the US spot FX market

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT

The 2012 mid-year assessment of FX volumes was published last week by the FX committees of all the key FX geographies. An assessment of the FX volume results from US shows us that after the peaking of volumes in September 2011, the volumes have plateaued. FX volumes have grown in US by a meager 0.5% and this has been primarily driven by a fall in spot FX volumes. The core issue is the economic...

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Financial Technology News Report is out! http://t.co/Jds9GCg0 : Top stories today via @LouisLovas @SunGardBanking @MATLAB

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:50 AM PDT

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@Cassinthenews: Cass holds Hackney House event for Tech City businesses http://t.co/wz8VXlCH

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT

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Women's Views on News

Women's Views on News

First female Saudi competitors triumphant, but still walking behind the men

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Jem McCarron
WVoN co-editor

The Olympic Games will herald many firsts over the next few weeks, but there is one that really could impact lives around the world.

For the first time since the games began, every participating country will have at least one female representative.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, three countries failed to send any women; Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Qatar.

The 2012 Olympics have made special efforts to ensure that every country sent at least one female competitor and whilst none of the women sent by Saudi Arabia, Brunei or Qatar met the qualifying conditions, they were invited to attend by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their Principal of Universality that allows them to wave the usual conditions to ensure equality.

This year Brunei has sent one woman in a team of three, Maziah Mahusin, who was accepted less than a month before the start of the olympics and will be running the 400m hurdles.

Qatar has fielded three female athletes. The country made a failed bid for the 2020 Olympics but will be attempting again for 2024.

Despite leaving it right to the very last minute, the Saudi Arabian’s have two women on their team.

Sarat Attar will be running the 800m for the Saudis; however, she is rarely in the country, living and training instead in California.

Her colleague, sixteen-year-old Wodjan Shaherkani has never left Saudi Arabia, having been trained for her role in the Judo competition in private by her father.

Irrespective of this faltering start, they both made history when they stepped into the arena on Friday evening at the opening ceremony, waving triumphantly at the exuberant crowd.

Viewers could not help but notice that the women walked behind their male teammates, something sadly comfortably in line with the country’s attitude toward women, Olympians or not.

The Saudis may have allowed the women to compete, however they do so under strict sharia guidelines.

A recent row about Shaherkani’s head covering resulted in threats of the country pulling out altogether.  The women are to be chaperoned by a ‘guardian’.

It is hoped that the presence of these two women will improve conditions for women wanting to take part in sports in Saudi Arabia where they are currently banned from competitive sports.

Most gyms and swimming pools do not provide female-only sessions. Those that do are prohibitively expensive.

Whilst this is most definitely a landmark moment for women in the Middle East, it is not a revolution, and any change will be slow and face significant resistance.

Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe writes about marginalized women’s lives

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Helen Thompson
WVoN co-editor

On an unseasonably cool July evening at the Purcell Room in the Southbank Centre in London, Nigerian fiction writer Chika Unigwe read from her latest novel to a diverse audience as part of an event entitled Nigeria Now.

Noo Saro-Wiwa, travel writer and daughter of activist and author Ken Saro-Wiwa, accompanied Unigwe onstage, and journalist Onyekachi Wambu moderated the panel as the two women read from their works and discussed topics such as writing, food, and Nigeria's past and present.

I prepared for the event by reading Unigwe's two novels in English, On Black Sisters' Street and Night Dancer. By the time I’d finished them, I was very excited about hearing her talk about her work.

Both of  Unigwe's novels focus on the lives of Nigerian women, the limited choices they have in terms of making a decent living and developing the ability to live life on their own terms.

They also focus on the sex trade and the costs of prostitution for her female characters.

In On Black Sisters' Street, Unigwe examines a group of six mostly Nigerian prostitutes in Antwerp, indentured to Dele, a male compatriot who offers them a way out of poverty through sex work, but who keeps them from flourishing through insurmountable debt and threats of violence that he carries out in the case of Sisi.

A reviewer in the LA Times said it was not an uplifting book, but I see Unigwe's work transcend the horrors of the lives of these trafficked women in a couple of ways.

Firstly, as the same reviewer says, the women do not see themselves as victims.

With Sisi's death comes a chance for them to tell their stories and bond with each other in ways that offer a degree of hope for them because they are no longer alone.

Secondly, the beauty of Unigwe's language, a testament to her skill as a poet as well as a fiction writer, encapsulates these women in words that not only give voice to their marginalized stories but also memorializes their strength and resilience.

Unigwe's latest novel, Night Dancer, provides a different trajectory for examining Nigerian women's marginal identities.

In a plot revolving around a mother and daughter, we witness Mme's estrangement from her recently-dead mother, Ezi, due to the latter’s ‘shameful’ status as a single mother who supports herself and her adult daughter through prostitution.

An adept storyteller, Unigwe firstly unfolds Mme's emotional journey to discover her father before she reveals the story of how Ezi ends up in such a marginal state.

As with On Black Sisters' Street, Night Dancer takes the reader into the painful territory of women's limited choices, but in the character of Ezi we witness a woman who relinquishes her reputation in order to avoid living with a husband who has morally compromised his family.

Mme's journey is one that many of us will recognize.

In trying to distance ourselves from our mothers, we discover that we are more like them than we were willing to admit. But with knowledge and maturity, we hopefully embrace the similarities.

During the Nigeria Now event, Unigwe talked about Nigerian women's empowerment in cultures that are decidedly patriarchal.

She described the term "negofeminism," a liberal feminism that is more appropriately suited to African women's experience, given the prominence it gives to negotiation and 'no-ego.'

In an email interview, Unigwe expounded further by saying:

"It recognizes that African women come out of cultures which encourage negotiation, complementarity, give-and-take, and collaboration. Negofeminism is also not individualistic in the way western feminism is.

"It understands that for a majority of these women, a radical break with their culture, even if it's patriarchal, is not possible for so many different reasons."

In Night Dancer, Ezi represents the consequences for a woman breaking with her culture—isolation, marginalization, and expulsion from community.

Unigwe was born in Enugu, Nigeria, and has lived in Belgium and the Netherlands, where she completed a Ph.D. thesis on Igbo women's writing.

She is a vehement supporter of Nigerian women and an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government in both her fiction and articles written for The Guardian and the Nigerian Daily Times.

From critiques of marriage, an institution that that she believes facilitates the patriarchal attitudes that shelter abusive husbands, the high incidence of Nigerian women dying in childbirth, to the government's failure to stem Boko Haram's terrorism in the North, Unigwe writes to effect change in her home country.

She told me that she supports legalizing prostitution "because it protects women [and] also makes good economic sense as the women then pay taxes on their revenue."

However, she qualifies this statement by pointing out that in Nigeria "our government should be doing a lot more to give young women alternative choices so that those who choose prostitution do so out of multiple alternatives, and not because there is nothing else for them to do."

In all of her writing, Unigwe's engagement in social justice is evident.

She says of her work: "I write from a place of anger, of frustration. Perhaps being a woman, I write to foreground our experiences. Having said that, I also write from a place of passion."

Unigwe has received multiple accolades for her work.

She won the 2003 BBC Short Story Competition, a Commonwealth Short Story Award and a Flemish literary prize.

In 2007 she received a Unesco-Aschberg fellowship and in 2009 a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.

In 2011 the committee for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlisted On Black Sisters' Street.

This same novel is currently on the longlist for the 2012 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Unigwe's next project is a novel about the life of Olaudah Equiano, an 18th century Nigerian man who, as an ex-slave, wrote about his life and became involved in the British abolitionist movement.

Chika Unigwe is participating in the Edinburgh International Book Festival in an event entitled Upbringings Against the Odds with Kim Thúy on Friday August 17 at the RBS Corner Theatre from 8:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Women’s sport treated differently in Olympic TV coverage, study finds

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Liz Draper
WVoN co-editor

Female athletes often get the blunt end of the stick when it comes to media coverage.

From the BBC's hesitance to show women's football matches on primetime TV, to the everlasting debate over the competitiveness of women's tennis – women's sports are rarely taken as seriously as men's.

Every four years, though, female athletes of all disciplines enjoy attention and respect equal to that lavished on their male teammates.

However, US research published last month found that the Olympic ideal of equality does not extend to television coverage.

Professor James Angelini of the University of Delaware analysed all 64 hours of American network NBC's coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and found several key differences in the way men's and women's sports were depicted.

In terms of time allocation, men received more than three fifths of the air time for single gender sports. Men also accounted for 75 per cent of the most mentioned athletes.

Further, sportscasters also framed men's and women's successes and failures in different ways.

Male athletes' achievements were more frequently attributed to athletic ability and commitment to sport, whereas women's successes were more likely to be put down to luck.

When female athletes failed, their physical ability and commitment were questioned, whereas men's failures were presented in the context of their competitors' success.

In a previous study, Angelini and his team analysed footage of the 2008 Beijing games, with similar findings.

Commentators have already raised the treatment of women's sports during London 2012.

On only the first day of the Games, Marina Hyde of the Guardian noted that the scantily clad female dancers and Benny Hill music played to entertain spectators at the beach volleyball were unlikely to lend gravitas to the sport.

Similarly, in an awkward press conference earlier this week, cyclist Victoria Pendleton was asked by a journalist whether her Australian rival Anna Meares was a cow. It is hard to imagine Mark Cavendish being asked to use similar language to refer to any of his rivals.

Angelini and his team will be continuing their research at the London Games.

“The British broadcasts will probably be a bit more balanced than the American broadcasts on NBC,” Angelini said. “It won’t be fully equitable, but I think it may be better.”

Let's hope London can overcome these early blips and prove him right.

Book review: British women olympians and paralympians past and present

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Penny Hopkins
Olympics editor

In “British Women Olympians and Paralympians Past and Present,”  Mary Honeyball (who is a member of the European parliament) presents sketches of the lives and achievements of 39 women who have represented Britain at an Olympic or Paralympic Games.

There are 15 track and field athletes as well as names from fencing, canoeing, cycling, dressage, swimming, show jumping, diving, hockey, judo and tennis.

It is a thoughtful selection with the more obvious competitors — such as Dame Kelly Holmes and Baronness Tanni Grey-Thompson — alongside those less well remembered such as Dorothy Manley, one of only two British women to have won a medal in the 100 metres.

There are absences too, such as Paula Radcliffe and Mary King.

When asked what her criteria were for making her choices for the book, Ms Honeyball said: "The women I chose had the most inspiring stories (in my opinion)."

She admitted there was scope for additions:

“Definitely once these games are over we will be seeking to add to it with new entries of 2012 greats such as Lizzie Armistead who won a silver medal for team GB earlier this week. Such a great achievement.”

In a largely political foreword, Honeyball says, "This year the Olympic Games will put the importance and significance of inspiring young people firmly back on the agenda.

“It's an exciting time for London and for our British athletes.  Here we celebrate some of the female athletes past and present who will and have represented Great Britain.  We should be proud of their achievements and support them in this exciting year."

The book is a good introduction for anyone interested in the subject.  It would benefit from a more extensive introduction, perhaps with a short history of British women's participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Click here to access the e-book.

Women’s rights campaigners demand equality at the Olympics

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Penny Hopkins
Olympics editor

 

It is supposed to be the most gender-equal Games ever.  At last, every country's team will comprise both women and men.

Women will be competing in every single sport – with boxing to be the last sport to achieve equality.

And yet, and this may be a theme of the WVoN reporting on the Games, is this equality real, or just so much talk?

 

On Wednesday 25, before the Games started, representatives from European women's groups met to protest against discrimination at the Olympics.

 

Annie Sugier, of the International League of Women's Rights conceded that progress has been made but added that "It is clear that more needs to be done as there is still gender discrimination at the Olympics."

 

The demonstration included a symbolic burial of the Olympic Charter in protest at the apparent disregard for the one of its guiding principles – the condemnation of discrimination of any kind.

 

The protestors presented seven demands under the title, "London 2012: Justice for Women" to be delivered to International Olympic Committee (IOC) members on Wednesday.

 

These include having the same number of medal events for men and women, working towards a 50% representation for women on sports' governing bodies, and women competitors to be given the same profile as men.

 

They also demand banning the wearing of political or religious symbols and it is this that is probably the most contentious.

 

Anne-Marie Lizin, president of the Belgian Senate said: "We want all women in all countries of the world to have access to sport, to be able to complete and have the possibility of coming to the Olympics – and to wear what they want."

 

It is unbelievable that some of these demands still have to be made in the 21st century.

Others, like the continuing issue of religious symbols, and more particularly the requirement that female Islamic competitors wear the hijab, are inevitably more complex.

One thing is sure; women's equality at the London 2012 Games will be one of the most vigorously debated subjects for the next two weeks and beyond.

Hundreds of Canadian Mounties join harrassment case

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT

Emma Davis
WVoN co-editor

Hundreds of female Canadian Mounties have claimed they suffered discrimination, bullying and harassment while working within the mounted police force.

More than 200 past and present employees of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have come forward to join a class action lawsuit after former employee Janet Merlo filed the suit in March.

Dozens had been expected to come forward but now the figure is in the hundreds.  Lawyers anticipate there are still more women yet to emerge to make allegations.

As reported by CTV news, the acting attorney on the case, Jason Murray, said: “We’re still hearing from women who either are currently members of the RCMP or who have retired or left the force in other ways.  On a week-to-week basis we’re hearing from people coming forward who have complaints about how they feel they were treated when they were with the RCMP.

“It’s a significant number. It says to us there’s a significant problem that people feel has happened within the RCMP with respect to how women are treated."

Ms Merlo worked with the RCMP from 1991 to 2010, during which time she says in her statement of claim that she was subjected to verbal abuse and bullying.

Incidents include offensive items being left with her post, such as a dildo and a derogatory manual titled 'Training Courses Now Available for Women'.

She also states that male members of her detachment repeatedly told her now husband that they had had sex with her.

Ms Merlo left the RCMP in March 2010 suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

Mr Murray said that the new allegations "range from people who feel they've been passed over for an assignment or promotion because of their gender to people who have had words and taunting all the way up to incidents of sexual assault and physical assault."

The case is one of several cases that have been filed against the mounted police force in Canada recently.

In a separate case another woman, Cpl Catherine Galliford, claims that she was sexually assaulted, harassed and intimidated during 20-years working for the RCMP and that she suffered from post-traumatic stress as a result. Cpl Galliford is suing the force, where she had been the public face of several prolific investigations.

These allegations were denied by the Federal Government, which represents the RMCP, but earlier this year the force announced it would train 100 officers to investigate sexual harassment complaints internally.

Ms Merlo's case will have a first hearing before the Supreme Court of British Colombia on Thursday August 2, but most class-action suits take several years to be heard completely.

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Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) Advises British Columbia On Version 2 Of Technical Gaming Standards For Internet Gaming Systems

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:08 PM PDT

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada (1 August 2012) Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), the world's leading gaming testing technical consultancy laboratory, is pleased to have been once again engaged to provide advisory services for the revision of Technical Standards for Internet Gaming by the Province of British Columbia's Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch (GPEB).

Salim Adatia CEO GLI Interactive

The update was the result of collaboration between GPEB, British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) and GLI Canada. As a GPEB-accredited and British Columbia-based firm, GLI played a key technical advisory role in the creation of Version 2 of TGS5 – Technical Gaming Standards for Internet Gaming Systems. Key elements of the initiative were to address ongoing changes and technological advancements in internet gaming, including mobile gaming, as well as the inclusion of entirely new game product line offerings planned for the BCLC's PlayNow.com site, offered to players inside British Columbia.

BCLC's Director of eGaming Operations, Mr. Richard Fenster said, "Finalizing a technical standard that meets the needs of all concerned parties is a significant achievement made possible through a major investment of time and expertise of all involved including the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch and GLI Canada."

Since its 2010 acquisition of Technical Systems Testing (TST) – a firm with broad experience in internet gaming testing and regulation – GLI has amassed the world's foremost knowledge base in testing internet gaming products for highly regulated jurisdictions. For more than a decade GLI (TST) has either advised and/or drafted iGaming technical standards for highly respected iGaming jurisdictions such as British Columbia, Alderney, Italy, Nevada (USA), Tasmania (Australia), the UK and others. GLI has also provided technical standards consultancy to respected Tribes and/or Tribal associations in gaming and continues to work closely with Regulators and Tribes in emerging markets both domestically and abroad.

Salim Adatia, CEO of GLI Canada added, "It was an honour to heed the call to update the original version of the BC iGaming technical standard we originally helped put in place back in 2009. Updates such as the ones that were requested of GLI are natural in the course of iGaming operations within a jurisdiction and we applaud BCLC and GPEB for recognizing this. Technical standards must evolve with the rapid pace of technology, regulatory concerns, and player demand for new product offerings."

About Gaming Laboratories For nearly 25 years, Gaming Laboratories International, LLC has been the world leader in providing independent testing, inspection and certification services to the gaming, wagering and lottery industry. GLI also offers independent network and information security assessments to its regulatory, lottery and supplier clients. With 20 laboratory locations located across Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and South America, GLI is the only global organization of its kind to hold U.S. and international accreditations for compliance with ISO/IEC 17025, 17020 and guide 65 standards for technical competence in the gaming, wagering and lottery industries. For more information, visit www.gaminglabs.com.

 

Panomera® to tour Europe

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:34 AM PDT

The Security Essen represents the starting signal for a quite extraordinary event for Dallmeier: a Panomera® Promotional European Tour with a show truck designed by Luigi Colani. The roadshow will take in 14 stops in five different European countries over a period of seven weeks.

460 hp and 36 tons rolling through Europe For the duration of Security Essen from 25th to 28th September, the Colani Panomera® Truck will demonstrate the unique, patented Panomera® technology on the open-air exhibition ground 2. As soon as the trade fair closes, the roadshow begins, and will travel through Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Italy.

Just like Panomera®, the show truck is something very special itself: it consists of an exclusive tractor unit created by design legend Luigi Colani, and its unusual, futuristic appearance attracts admiring stares wherever it goes. The tractor unit puts out an incredible 460 hp! This power enables the 16.5 m long, 36-ton truck to glide effortlessly down the road. And that’s not all: Even the show truck is fully consistent with Dallmeier's “Green Global Security" philosophy: the Colani-designed tractor is based on a standard DAF tractor unit, which was constructed on aerodynamic principles that enable a fuel consumption rate up to 25% lower than that of a conventional tractor unit!

The exceptionally spacious trailer, which of course will be adorned in the Dallmeier Panomera® design, provides a total of 80 m2 on two levels, serving as a remarkable setting for presenting the Panomera® technology. The patented multifocal sensor system, with which very large areas can be monitored in extremely high resolution, will be presented live in the truck. Visitors will have the chance to experience the amazing Panomera® effect at first hand and discover its simple, intuitive operating concept. Whether for airports, stadiums, logistics, seaports, large car parking facilities or public areas: Panomera® opens up unimagined realms of opportunity to the video security industry!

The Colani Panomera® Truck will make stops in many European cities. Anyone who is interested can visit between 10 am and 5 pm on any day. The registration form is available at: www.panomera.com/en/roadshow.html

Dates and places:

21st September:             Regensburg

25th – 28th September:   Essen, Security trade fair, open-air exhibition ground 2

02nd October:                 Hamburg

04th October:                  Berlin

08th October:                  Frankfurt

10th October:                  Stuttgart

12th October:                  Munich

16th – 17th October:          Salzburg

18th – 19th October:          Vienna

23rd October:                  Brno

25th October:                  Prague

30th October:                  Zürich

01st November:              Berne

07th – 09th November:   Milan, Sicurezza trade fair

About Dallmeier Dallmeier has at its disposal more than 25 years of experience in transmission, recording as well as picture processing technology and is an outstanding pioneer of CCTV/IP solutions worldwide. This profound knowledge is used in the development of intelligent software and high quality recorder and camera technologies enabling Dallmeier to not only offer stand-alone systems, but complete network solutions up to large-scale projects with perfectly integrated components. Right from the beginning the company always focused on own innovative developments and highest quality and reliability. Dallmeier is the only manufacturer in Germany that develops and manufactures all components on its own. This includes the entire product range, from cameras to picture storage and transmission to intelligent video analysis and even individually adjusted management systems. Quality made by Dallmeier, made in Germany!

Over the years, Dallmeier has repeatedly given fresh impetus to the market with new developments and extraordinary innovations. The world's first DVR for example, which introduced digital recording to the entire CCTV industry, came from Dallmeier. The multifocal sensor system Panomera® will have a similarly groundbreaking effect: This unique and novel camera technology will revolutionise the market and open up completely new possibilities to the video security industry. This and the extensive experience in the CCTV and IP field have lead to a top position in the international market for digital video surveillance systems.

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