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Firm-specific risk-neutral distributions with options and CDS

Governance and risk in a time of uncertainty and change

Good morning. I would like to thank the Institute of Directors for inviting me to speak with you today.  We are living through a time of great uncertainty – uncertainty over the short term path of the COVID-19 pandemic and its longer term effects; uncertainty regarding the pace and extent of technology and related behavioural … Read more

Digital boom driving ‘high-end gig economy jobs’ shift -

Digital boom driving ‘high-end gig economy jobs’ shift –

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting … Read more

Europe’s cum-ex probes heat up with focus on London -

Europe’s cum-ex probes heat up with focus on London –

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting … Read more

Gibraltar’s financial services will benefit from decision

Gibraltar’s financial services will benefit from decision

&nbsp Author: Antonia Di Lorenzo, Finance Correspondent March 11, 2021 Around 90 percent of Gibraltar’s Financial Services business is UK-facing and with Brexit looming, the Gibraltar Government sought and achieved not only inclusion in the Withdrawal Agreement via the Gibraltar Protocol, but also, more recently, a bespoke arrangement that guarantees market access to financial services … Read more

Firm-specific risk-neutral distributions with options and CDS

Remarks on the occasion of the publication of “Love you”

Good morning and good evening.  It’s a pleasure to join you at this book launch, and to congratulate the publishers and of course the author, my good friend Girol Karacaoglu.  I’m particularly pleased to have been asked to say a few words on the background and context for the wellbeing work programme; it’s been a … Read more

Can AI bridge gap between big data and sustainable financing? -

Can AI bridge gap between big data and sustainable financing? –

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting … Read more

Banking lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak -

Banking lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak –

All the benefits of Digital + Print plus subscriptions to: The Banker Database is a service of the Financial Times, providing comprehensive financial data and insight for 5000 of the world’s leading banks, in more than 160 countries.Visit The Banker Database + A specialist service from the Financial Times, Global Risk Regulator provides insightful reporting … Read more

Central banks are gradually warming to digital currencies

Central banks are gradually warming to digital currencies

&nbsp Author: Alex Katsomitros March 5, 2021 Last April, amid the COVID-induced panic that engulfed the planet, more shocking news came from China. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) announced that it would start testing its own central bank digital currency (CBDC), a first for a major economy. Government employees in four cities were paid … Read more

Firm-specific risk-neutral distributions with options and CDS

Economic activity, prices and monetary policy in Japan

I. Recent Economic and Price Developments A. Economic Developments I will begin my speech by talking about overseas economies. The growth rates for the April-June quarter of 2020 were substantially negative in many countries due to measures such as lockdowns implemented in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). However, those for the … Read more