Location: Espace La Rochefoucauld, Paris. Date:2008-05-30 00:00:00. The Banque de France, the CREST and la fondation du risque jointly organise on May the 30th 2008 an international Workshop on Contagion and Financial Stability. Objectives of this workshop are threefold: to discuss the role of the institutions facing contagion phenomena; to evaluate the role played by new market participants as...
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After a lengthy haitus, the team here at MoneyScience are delighted to introduce a relaunched Financial Intelligence Newsletter, bringing together news, events, books and popular content from the main MoneyScience site. Subscribe here for bi-monthly updates. In this sample issue we feature: Education: ICMA Centre launches new degree in Investment Banking and Islamic Finance Profile: Cass Business...
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Credit market turmoil is altering the global playing field in buyouts and acquisitions, a field rife with complaints in recent years about too much money chasing too few good deals. The credit shortage puts pressure on pricing and transactional quality, while also giving public companies a better shot at acquisitions that the more aggressive private equity firms might previously have snatched...
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Location: Federal Reserve Bank of New York . Date:2008-05-29 00:00:00. On May 29-30, Columbia Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will cosponsor a conference that brings together scholars and policymakers interested in the theoretical and applied aspects of money markets, including cross-country comparative analysis. Especially welcomed are papers that investigate the...
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Location: Universita Bocconi, Milano, Italy. Date:2008-05-29 00:00:00. Universita Bocconi announces a call for papers for the fourth European Banking Symposium, sponsored and organized by Bocconi - Carefin (Center for Applied Research in Finance) with the assistance of ProBanker Simulations and the Department of Finance of Maastricht University. The conference will be hosted at Universita'...
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Get the Complete MoneyScience RSS Feed or Subscribe by Mail. Banks and Banking | Market Miscellany | International Markets | UK News | Credit Markets Credit Markets Lots of attention on the FT's scoop about Moody's credit rating models. OTC Blog asks: who's wronger? How at least $35 billion in writedowns have escaped notice. US guru Warren Buffett, has claimed there was still...
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"Orthodox economists don't recognise habits... They assume ordinary people do a constant cost-benefit analysis on everything they do. But actually, after you reach a decision, you say, 'That's the end of it!' - and just continue." - Dan Ariely, Behavioural Economist at MIT. Dan Ariely presents his case, as is the behaviouralist way, based on evidence from real life, such as Sainsbury's. Instead...
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Redondo Beach, USFounded in 1996, Leonard Wealth Management was established with the purpose of providing an all-inclusive wealth management firm. They focus on combining the major disciplines of planning and investments in a fiduciary, fee-only environment.
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David Evans at Bloomberg writes fascinatingly in-depth about the structure and shocking risks inherent within the Multi-billion dollar Credit Default Swaps (CDS) market: A few quotes from the article below: Billionaire investor George Soros says a chain reaction of failures in the swaps market could trigger the next global financial crisis. CDSs, which were devised by J.P. Morgan & Co....
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