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Avinash Persaud of Intelligence Capital gave the opening talk of the morning at RiskMinds (see first of set of posts from last year here) and put forward a lot of the very good ideas that he has cont...
Easily the most unusual literary success story of the year, the Jane Austen inspired mash-up novel which inspires this blog title is terrific trashy fun. If you are looking for a quirky Christmas pres...
I went along to the Forum on News Analytics over in Canary Wharf on Monday evening, organised by Professor Gautam Mitra from OptiRisk / Carisma at Brunel University. I guess we are in the early day...
Bloomberg's global identifiers for all asset classes are now available for free. A move that will be applauded by most standards and identifier evangelists. However, as most veterans of the standards ...
The American Securitization Forum’s (ASF) work to enable the tracking of individual US mortgages is just one example of the finance world’s renewed faith in fact. This in turn is paving the way fo
What is Integrated Data Management?... At a seminar a week or so back, I was asked the somewhat academic question was "What is Integrated Data Management?". Certainly everyone seemed convinc...
I managed to catch some of the first day on Thursday of the "Pricing Model Validation: Mitigating Model Risk" conference. I thought it would be worthwhile going along since firstly the past...
Two widely-accepted facts: valuation processes sit in the front office, reporting sits in the back. But what's in the middle? Often, it's been a chasm where the basic details on how/when/why an asset ...
...an article I did a couple of years back for Wilmott magazine - might present some useful background to FpML even if the thoughts are now a little out of date - you may also think it sad (to say t...
...I am not surprised by the results of the survey given the current hype, but it is interesting to see that some are trying out a few financial things that seem to work well in the "cloud"...
...I am very concerned that I have previously missed an important requirement for data management solutions - a heavweight risk judging by this great discussion on one of the Microsoft forums.
The US justice department's investigation of the CDS market is probably more a reflection of the changing political attitudes surrounding credit derivatives rather than a discovery of criminal behavio...