Dollar replaces VIX as gauge of banks' appetite for leverage - BIS's Hyun...
Press release, 15 November 2016.
View ArticleThe dollar, bank leverage and the deviation from covered interest parity
We document the triangular relationship formed by the strength of the US dollar, cross-border bank lending in dollars and deviations from covered interest parity (CIP). A stronger dollar goes...
View Articleayondo Acquires Leading Singapore’s Fintech Brand TradeHero
Financial technology group ayondo has acquired the TradeHero brand, a Singapore investor education app that has been ranked the number one finance app in the Apple iOS app in over 90 countries.read...
View ArticleAxiomSL Data And Process Control Platform Recognized As “Category...
AxiomSL, the leader in risk data management and regulatory reporting for financial services, is pleased to announce its leading position in a new Chartis FinTech Quadrant®, “Data Integrity and Control...
View ArticleUNICEF & Ellen Macarthur Cancer Trust Open LSEG’s Sixth Annual...
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) will today donate a day’s worth of share trading fees from across our markets - London Stock Exchange, Borsa Italiana and Turquoise – to charity. Distributed through...
View ArticlePowerShares US High Yield Fallen Angels UCITS ETF Launched On Xetra - ETF...
A new bond index fund from the ETF offering issued by PowerShares Global Funds has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday.read more...
View ArticleNew db X-trackers Smart Beta ETF On Euro-Zone Companies Tradable On Xetra -...
A new db x-trackers ETF from the Deutsche Asset Management ETF product family has been available for trading on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday.read more...
View ArticleESMA Defines Common Supervisory Approach For CCPs’ Service Extensions...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion defining a common supervisory approach for supervisors dealing with central counterparties (CCPs) wishing to extend...
View ArticleCME Group Announces Sir Tim Berners-Lee As The 2016 Melamed-Arditti...
CME Group's Center for Innovation today announced that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and Founding Director, World Wide Web Foundation, is the 12threcipient of the CME Group...
View ArticleThomson Reuters To Present At The 2016 RBC Capital Markets TMT Deep Dive...
Jim Smith, president and chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI), will present at the RBC Capital Markets TMT Deep Dive Conference in Toronto on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 11:00...
View ArticleCFTC Division Of Market Oversight Reminds Market Participants Of The Upcoming...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today reminds all participants in CFTC-regulated derivatives markets of the upcoming scheduled expiration...
View ArticleBats Europe Expands Reach Of New UK Indices - Bats’ Real-Time Benchmark...
Bats Europe (Bats), the region’s largest stock exchange operator, today announced that data for its UK-focused indices, which were launched this summer, is available via the following leading market...
View ArticleMoney Market Funds: Presidency And European Parliament Reach Agreement
On 14 November 2016, the presidency reached provisional agreement with representatives of the European Parliament on a draft regulation on money market funds (MMFs), aimed at making such products more...
View ArticleExamining The Dodd-Frank Act And The Future Of Financial Regulation, Rick A....
Thank you, David [Lynn], for that kind introduction. I also want to thank Jim Allen and the sponsoring organizations for extending the invitation to speak, and to all of you for participating in this...
View ArticleFederal Court Orders IB Capital FX, LLC, Michel Geurkink, And Emad Echadi To...
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained a Consent Order against Defendants IB Capital FX, LLC (a/k/a IB Capital FX (NZ) LLP) d/b/a IB Capital (IB Capital), Michel Geurkink, and...
View ArticleCFTC Swaps Report Update
CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available.read more...
View ArticleTreasury International Capital Data For September
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for September 2016. The next release, which will report on data for October 2016, is scheduled for December...
View ArticleAnalysis of Price and Income Elasticities of Energy Demand in Ecuador: A...
Energy consumption in Ecuador has increased significantly during the last decades, affecting negatively the financial position of the country since large energy consumption subsidies are provided in...
View ArticleToward Economics as a New Complex System. (arXiv:1611.05280v1 [q-fin.EC])
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller for their contributions to the empirical analysis of asset prices. Eugene Fama [1] is an...
View ArticleComputation of first-order Greeks for barrier options using chain rules for...
This paper presents a new methodology to compute first-order Greeks for barrier options under the framework of path-dependent payoff functions with European, Lookback, or Asian type and with...
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