EGX Chairman Holds A Meeting With The Bank Of Alexandria CEO
EGX Chairman, Mr. Mohamed Farid, held a meeting today with Mr. Dante Campioni, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Board Member of Alexbank, in the presence of Mr. Tamer Seif El Din, Head of...
View ArticleOffice of Financial Research Update: Financial System Vulnerabilities Monitor
The Office of Financial Research has updated the Financial System Vulnerabilities Monitor with data from the third quarter of 2017. A starting point for monitoring U.S. financial stability, the FSVM is...
View ArticleFINRA Publishes Budget Summary And Financial Principles For First Time -...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority today published for the first time its Financial Guiding Principles and a summary of its budget for the coming year. The additional transparency supplements...
View ArticleOffice Of The Comptroller Of The Currency Report Discusses Key Risks For...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today reported credit, operational, and compliance risks are key concerns for the federal banking system in its Semiannual Risk Perspective for Fall...
View ArticleIIROC Releases Latest Compliance Priorities Report - Emphasis On Risk...
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) today published its annual Compliance Priorities Report, highlighting the past year's compliance and registration achievements and...
View ArticleCboe Welcomes New Issuer Barclays To ETF Marketplace
Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE | Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today welcomed new issuer Barclays to the Cboe ETF Marketplace, with the launch of two...
View ArticleA First Option Calibration of the GARCH Diffusion Model by a PDE Method....
Time-series calibrations often suggest that the GARCH diffusion model could also be a suitable candidate for option (risk-neutral) calibration. But unlike the popular Heston model, it lacks a fast,...
View ArticleThe QLBS Q-Learner Goes NuQLear: Fitted Q Iteration, Inverse RL, and Option...
The QLBS model is a discrete-time option hedging and pricing model that is based on Dynamic Programming (DP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL). It combines the famous Q-Learning method for RL with the...
View ArticleA closed-form formula for pricing bonds between coupon payments....
We derive a closed-form formula for computing bond prices between coupon payments. Our results cover both the `Treasury' and the `Street' pricing methods used by sovereign and corporate issuers. We...
View ArticleLarge-Scale Simulation of Multi-Asset Ising Financial Markets....
We perform a large-scale simulation of an Ising-based financial market model that includes 300 asset time series. The financial system simulated by the model shows a fat-tailed return distribution and...
View ArticleWhere'd You Get That Token? 7 Platforms Managing ICOs
A handful of platforms have launched to support token issuers with their sales. Which one an issuer uses may say something about the token itself.
View ArticleUS Department Of Justice: HSBC Holdings Plc Agrees To Pay More Than $100...
United Kingdom-based global financial services company HSBC Holdings plc (HSBC) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) and agreed to pay a $63.1 million criminal penalty and $38.4 million...
View ArticleThe ECB Wants to Hear Your Cryptocurrency Questions
The European Central Bank is soliciting questions for president Mario Draghi, specifying that cryptocurrency-related questions should be a topic.
View ArticleWhy São Paulo Wants to Pay for Infrastructure with Cryptocurrency
The Brazilian state wants to pay for feasibility studies with a token designed for the construction industry. Can such a coin achieve network effect?
View ArticleSEC Outlines Reasons for Reluctance to List Cryptocurrency ETFs
An SEC letter states there are "significant investor protection issues" to be examined before opening up crypto-ETFs to retail investors.
View ArticleGlobal Securities Watchdog Warns Investors on ICO Risks
An organization of global securities regulators has issued a notice alerting investors to the perceived risks associated with initial coin offerings.
View ArticleStuck at $12K: Bitcoin Price Needs Quick Progress to Avert Further Losses
With its recovery stalled, bitcoin needs a quick break above $12,500 or the tide may turn in favor of the bears.
View ArticleCFTC Charges Colorado Resident Dillon Michael Dean and His Company, The...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on January 18, 2018 filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Defendants Dillon Michael...
View ArticleJoint statement from CFTC and SEC Enforcement Directors Regarding Virtual...
Joint statement from CFTC and SEC Enforcement Directors Regarding Virtual Currency Enforcement Actions
View ArticleRussia's National Settlement Depository Improves Channel For Client Interactions
National Settlement Depository (NSD) has improved the channel for client interactions by implementing the Application Programming Interface (API) for online banking services.read more...
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