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- 07:45, 1 June 2024 Relativism (hist | edit) [1,236 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}Any of a set of beliefs that question, if assert the incoherence of an independent, objective reality. Often seen as the playground of loony libtards, Marxists and subverters of all that is righteous in the world, relativism has a great deal to recommend it, seeing as the traditional Platonic/Judeo-Christian account of the universe as a formally perfect thing traduced by sinning humans ''is'' incoherent. Largely because of playground bullying by big thi...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 14:58, 30 May 2024 3 - NDA Provision (hist | edit) [16 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{c|OneNDA TOC}}")
- 14:57, 30 May 2024 2 - NDA Provision (hist | edit) [17 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " {{c|OneNDA TOC}}")
- 08:25, 30 May 2024 How long do my obligations last? - OneNDA Provision (hist | edit) [20 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|onenda|v1|How long do my obligations last}}") originally created as "How long do my obligations last? - NDA Provision"
- 15:05, 29 May 2024 Messes, problems and puzzles (hist | edit) [3,553 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}{{d|messes, problem and puzzles||n|}}A coinage of Russell Ackoff and distinguishing between situations having neither a well-formed question nor an answer (“'''messes'''”), those which have a clear question but not an answer (“'''problems'''”) and those which have a clear question ''and'' a determinate answer (“'''puzzles'''”). JC notes parenthetically that a bucket is missing here: those situations in which there exists an ''answer'' but not...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 13:22, 29 May 2024 Perversity (hist | edit) [198 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{d|Perversity|/pəˈvɜːsəti/|n|}}To do something intended for one purpose in a way that has the effect of serving another purpose (principally one’s own) {{sa}} *Agency problem") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 18:35, 26 May 2024 Lucy Letby (hist | edit) [1,745 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|podcasts|}}Reporter (reviewing social media posts) — {{quote| “Sparky, full of fun, popular — she looks like the life and soul of the party in these photos. I don't know what Britain's most prolific child killer should look. I'm pretty sure it’s not this, though.}} This fits two profiles: either this is some cold, callous, monstrous psychopath — or a sparky, fun, popular young woman. The life and soul of the party. {{Sa}} *Miscarriages of justice") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 16:59, 25 May 2024 Misbehaviour as arbitrage (hist | edit) [2,508 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}Misbehaviour is ''arbitrage'': exploiting structural differentials you are not, by the rules of the game, meant to see, and that the loyal behavers ''cannot'' see (or ''refuse to look at''). They may be obscured by the behaver’s internal model/narrative, or by moral principles. In either case arbitrage behaviour is destructive to the present configuration of the system, and those who stand to gain from the present configuration will be hostile t...")
- 16:19, 24 May 2024 Beyond reasonable doubt (hist | edit) [535 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|casenote|}}The criminal standard of proof under English law: {{quote|“formerly described as “beyond reasonable doubt”. That standard remains, and the words commonly used, though the Judicial Studies Board guidance is that juries might be assisted by being told that to convict they must be persuaded “so that you are sure”}} *Misscarriage of justice")
- 14:54, 24 May 2024 Miscarriages of justice (hist | edit) [4,282 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|podcasts|}}====Standard of proof==== Beyond reasonable doubt is a ''very'' high standard. This is not just more likely than not: there has to be no room for doubt about it. This means an alternative explanation, if it is not absurd, if it cannot be ruled out It is satisfiable easily enough where there is direct ''independent'' evidence — from a third party with no interest “no dog in the fight” who directly witnessed what was going on. Where there is no...")
- 08:55, 23 May 2024 There but for the grace of God go I (hist | edit) [639 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}{{quote| “Stories like the infected blood and Post Office scandals offer rare moments of moral clarity in public life. The issue is clear, the wrong is egregious, the victims are clearly blameless — so we unite in outrage. But something troubles me. why do we identify with the victims rather than seeing ourselves in the legions of failing officials?” :—{{plainlink|https://x.com/vishvapani|Vishvapani}}, ''{{plainlink|https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/...")
- 15:45, 22 May 2024 Allen Farrington (hist | edit) [276 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|author|}}Author of {{br|Bitcoin is Venice}} and, in this [https://allenfarrington.medium.com/a-tale-of-two-talebs-1775dff3302b magnificent post], vanquisheur of the great twitter {{strike|blowhard|provocatore}}, Nassim Nicholas Taleb. {{sa}} *{{br|Bitcoin is Venice}}") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 10:39, 22 May 2024 Exclusivity (hist | edit) [571 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|nda|Exclusivity|{{Subtable|'''Sample exclusivity clause'''{{small|80}}<br>'''Non-circumvention''' <br> During the term of this Agreement:{{L3}}Customer shall not pursue or engage in any transaction analogous to the Project or contact any Introduced Party in relation to the Project without Introducer’s prior written consent. <li> Customer shall not communicate directly with anyone regarding the Project or the Introducer but shall direct all communications regard...")
- 16:24, 21 May 2024 Financialisation (hist | edit) [39 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|systems|financialisation|}}")
- 10:38, 15 May 2024 Credit Support - IM CSD Provision (hist | edit) [33 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|csa|}}{{credit support|imcsd}}")
- 09:06, 10 May 2024 (VM) (hist | edit) [23 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|csa|(VM)|}}")
- 07:10, 10 May 2024 Carillion (hist | edit) [437 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|}}Art-accounting rock band from the early part of the millennium. Famous for their fantastical, sprawling, three-hour-long improvised chutzpah solos (the band’s album cut, ''Pension Deficit'' performed on tiny violin, became a cult success), captured in their live triple album, performed on ice-skates {{br|More Mills & Boone Than Shakespeare But It Will Get Us There}}. {{Sa}} *Finance fiction") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 07:09, 10 May 2024 Piccolino (hist | edit) [376 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|}}{{d|Piccolino||n|}}A shortened, stunted stringed instrument, usually plucked or played with a sigh, from the violin family. Invented by composer and amateur dramatist {{Otto}} for his epic opera {{br|Talentdämmerung}}. Also features in Carillion’s epic cult single ''Pension Deficit'', amongst whose fans the instrument is known as the “tiny violin”.") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 13:23, 8 May 2024 You can’t dust for vomit (hist | edit) [1,508 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|security|}}{{quote|{{caps|Marty DiBergi}}: Your first drummer was —<br> {{caps|David St. Hubbins}}: John Stumpy Pepys. Great great, tall blond geek with glasses. Good drummer: great look, good drummer. {{caps|Marty DiBergi}}: What happened to him? {{caps|David St. Hubbins}}: He died. He died in a bizarre gardening accident, some years back.<br> {{caps|Nigel Tufnel}}: It was really one of those things. It was – you know, the authorities said, you know, best leave...")
- 13:09, 8 May 2024 Transfer Amount - NY CSA Provision (hist | edit) [33 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|csa|1994|Transfer Amount}}")
- 11:13, 8 May 2024 Transfer Amount - NY VM CSA Provision (hist | edit) [36 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|csa|2016 NY|Transfer Amount}}")
- 14:56, 3 May 2024 2018nyimcsd (hist | edit) [72 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{subst:2018imcsd}}")
- 10:49, 3 May 2024 AIFMD v UCITS (hist | edit) [3,496 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|regulation|{{image|Dandelion girl|jpg|}}}}{{drop|A|s a comparison}} piece to our showdown between EMIR v MIFID we offer you our UCITS v AIFMD showdown. These are of course the flagship regulations for EU for investment fund regulation. Generally speaking, UCITS is for retail investment funds — think granddad dandling grandchildren on knees, nostalgic glamour-glow photos of children blowing on dandelions and so on — and is, therefore, more restrictive th...")
- 09:39, 3 May 2024 MiFID v EMIR (hist | edit) [4,388 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|regulation|}}The two major pieces of regulation covering the European investment banking and trading worlds are MiFID — the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and EMIR — the European Market Infrastructure Regulation. As a super high level, what is the difference between MiFID and EMIR? {| class="wikitable" |+ Comparison between EMIR and MiFID {{aligntop}} ! Aspect !! EMIR !! MiFID {{aligntop}} | '''Regulation Type''' || Regulation (im...")
- 09:25, 2 May 2024 Hyperbolic language (hist | edit) [2,197 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|maxim|}}Hyperbolic language is a sign of weakness, not strength. There are two varieties of this: The convoluted, veiled threat of legal action. For example: {{quote|This is our final reminder regarding ''[stipulate some minuscule infringement IP rights or some such thing]''. Despite our previous correspondence, this matter remains unresolved, and it’s imperative that you address it immediately. If you do not address this issue now we will escalate this matter to...")
- 09:08, 1 May 2024 Post Office Horizon IT scandal (hist | edit) [229 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|disaster|{{disaster roll|Post Office Horizon}} {{Sa}} *Roll of honour *{{br|The Unaccountability Machine}}")
- 08:02, 1 May 2024 The Unaccountability Machine (hist | edit) [13,733 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|book review|{{image|Unaccountability Machine|}}}}The epic judicial processes of 2024 have been Tom Hayes appeal against LIBOR rigging, about which we have had much to say elsewhere, and the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Much of the engineering of corporate administration — you hardly need a doctorate in operations research to know there’s a lot of it — is there specifically to prevent bad apples — or stupid apples — subverting the system...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 10:41, 30 April 2024 Calculation Amount - 2021 ISDA Definition (hist | edit) [35 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|DI|2021|Calculation Amount}}")
- 10:30, 30 April 2024 Calculation Amount - ISDA Definition (hist | edit) [58 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|DI|2021|Calculation Amount}}")
- 12:42, 24 April 2024 The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (hist | edit) [7,181 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|film review|}}''This review was originally published on January 13, 2006'' <br> Slickly edited but all the same simple-minded, misconceived, rubbish. The film’s political perspective seems to be something like anarcho-syndicalism: the view that a society should be free of all compulsory rules, where all individuals will voluntarily work towards the common goals of the community, unconstrained by the imposed hierarchy of government or capitalism. Well, it’s...")
- 21:41, 22 April 2024 Read/write (hist | edit) [2,808 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}as we have technologies we have moved from read (passive) to read/write (active and interactive) while our language has moved from interactive write/read (interpretative imaginative) to read (symbol processing/data processing) and due to requirements of scale systems have moved to dynamic complex systems to simpler ones in the interests of control focused with no interaction, responsibility {{Sa}} *{{Br|The Unaccountability Machine}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 07:53, 22 April 2024 Bonus (hist | edit) [4,266 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{A|work|}}A time-honoured incentive plan for agents, by agents. Financial services firms have long struggled with the distinction between ownership and service. A firm’s owner takes her reward from the investment of capital — cash that the firm uses to acquire kit, rent premises, pay suppliers and hire staff, all in the collective enterprise of selling things — goods or services — for a return exceeding that capital outlay. As long as the firm does that, it...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 09:04, 19 April 2024 Mean reversion (hist | edit) [701 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|glossary|}}{{d|Mean reversion|/miːn rɪˈvɜːʃᵊn/|n|}} A financial assumption that an asset’s price will tend to converge to its average price over time, or the economic constraints over time that should, rationally control the price. So house prices and incomes should bear a constant relationship over time, and if house prices get out of whack, as they tend to do, the effect will be transitory.")
- 08:43, 19 April 2024 Chez Guevara (hist | edit) [974 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|}}{{quote|A ten minute walk, and it appeared out of the haze. ''Chez Guevara'': the revolutionary cafe. She opened early, rain or shine. <br> She was wiping glasses on the beachfront bar. He took a pew. <br> She slapped a short black on the table. <br> “Make it –”<br> She dolloped it with ''rakija''. <br> “I know, Boone-san, I know. ''Correto''.”<br> “You treat me so bad.” <br> “It’s what I do.”<br> Sokitume dug her elbows on the bar. She lea...")
- 06:58, 14 April 2024 Against Empathy (hist | edit) [411 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|book review|{{image|Against Empathy|jpg|}}}}{{quote|But on the whole, it’s a poor moral guide. It grounds foolish judgements and often motivates indifference and cruelty. It can lead to irrational and unfair political decisions, it can corrode certain important relationships, such as between a doctor and a patient, and make us worse at being friends, parents, husbands, and wives.}} {{Sa}} *Empathy") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 13:03, 13 April 2024 Banter is good (hist | edit) [2,458 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{quote| I am not a destroyer of reputations, I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that banter, for lack of a better word, is good. Banter is right, greed works. Banter clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Banter in all of its forms. Banter for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind, and banter – you mark my words – will not only save Teldar Paper, but that othe...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 12:32, 11 April 2024 Employment derivatives (hist | edit) [15,509 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|{{image|Ironmountain1|jpg|}}}}{{d|employment derivatives||n|}} A financial asset class developed in the early part of this millennium by derivatives pioneer and potboiler {{author|Hunter Barkley}}. They would be like interest rate swaps. A bunch of large employers would submit, daily, how much they would be prepared to pay to hire established categories of worker, to derive some kind of London Inter-Employer Bid-Offer Rate (can we call this LIEBOR?). Then the B...")
- 10:53, 10 April 2024 LIBOR rigging part 2 (hist | edit) [27,372 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|disaster|{{image|dramatic gopher at court|jpg}}}}''This is part II of an article about LIBOR rigging. The first part is here.'' Okay, so a picture is emerging. During the 1980s the “interest rate” transformed from being the intractable time cost of borrowing money — for lenders, a secondary risk to the repayment of principal — to a tradable asset class of its own, thanks to the emergence of interest rate swaps. This is a profound conce...")
- 15:24, 9 April 2024 Rumpelheimer v Haddock (hist | edit) [10,900 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|casenote|}}RUMPELHEIMER v HADDOCK<br> “Port to Port” <br>This case, involving some difficult points of Marine and Traffic Law, was brought to a conclusion to-day. The President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division ( who had the assistance of an assessor) giving judgment. This action was originally instituted in the King’s Bench, but, Mr Justice Juice holding that the issues disclosed pertained to the Law of Admiralty, although the ground of the clai...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 08:58, 9 April 2024 Just so story (hist | edit) [569 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{d|Just so story|/ʤəst səʊ ˈstɔːri/|n|}}An unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, trait, or behaviour. A way of getting the the crux of things without getting weighed down by details. A favourite rhetorical device in these pages. Especially handy where JC doesn’t know what he’s talking about.")
- 13:08, 8 April 2024 Interest rate swap (hist | edit) [294 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|interest rate swap|{{image|bazooka gopher|jpg|''I told you he was angry'' {{vsr|2008}}}}}}The most basic type of swap. Therefore, the safest, most harmless, and least likely to be involved in infamy. Right? {{sa}} *Interest rate swap mis-selling scandal *LIBOR rigging") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 21:57, 7 April 2024 LIBOR lowballing (hist | edit) [1,152 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The LIBOR rigging scandal — wherein many traders were prosecuted for manipulating the LIBOR rate to their trading advantage, only really came about as a result of the LIBOR lowballing scandal — a different scandal — where Banks deliberately understated the value of LIBOR that they could borrow at in the market. Whereas — arguably — the LIBOR rigging was at least within the literal meaning of the LIBOR rules, if not their spirit, in that the rates b...")
- 17:11, 7 April 2024 Embarrassing emails (hist | edit) [723 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|disaster|}}There are many blast signatures of a calumny but few are more distinctive than the quality of communications between those who wind up being implicated in them. {{sa}} *United States v Connolly and Black *Hayes and Palombo v R") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 17:40, 6 April 2024 Axe (hist | edit) [514 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{g}}{{d|Axe|/æks/|n}}1. ''Rock ’n’ roll'': An electric guitar. Ideally, a transition ’59 Strat with a slab board and single ply pick guard. 2. ''Financial trading'': The position a trader wants to be in, but isn’t. Where she aspires to go. A longing. A need. A ''desire''. If she is long huge slabs of structured mezzanine credit and it is March 2007, she is dramatically axed to ''sell'' it. Fast.")
- 12:25, 6 April 2024 If you like sausages, don’t work in a smallgoods factory (hist | edit) [332 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|maxim|}}When JC was little he was sent to Australia to work in a Bacon, Ham and Smallgoods factory near a prison in a settlement called Wacol on the outskirts of Brisbane. There he learned many things — not least of which was that if you like sausages, you should not work in such a place. Also, what a “long weight” is.")
- 12:18, 6 April 2024 Edge (hist | edit) [361 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{g}}{{d|Edge||n}}A distinctive advantage that sets a trader apart and allows them to accumulate more profits than losses. In a perfect market there is no edge. But the world isn’t perfect. It is quite important to check that your edge does not arise on account of illegal information.")
- 12:43, 3 April 2024 Cutlet (hist | edit) [6,562 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|fifi|}} ===Act I=== Late at night, SMEs in the compliance department are met by Squerrell, a good friend of Inspector Cutlet. They describe an email they have seen that seems to be from the recently-departed GC, David Bundie. At that moment, a new chat appears, and the guards and Squerrell decide to tell Cutlet. It’s impossible: he has no access to the system. It’s 3FA. Bartholomew Gould has recently become Co-head of legal with Chip Fryer|Geneviev...")
- 16:47, 31 March 2024 Preamble - IM CSA Provision (hist | edit) [26 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|csa|2018|Preamble}}")
- 13:11, 30 March 2024 Replacement cost (hist | edit) [36 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|replacement cost|}}")
- 10:06, 30 March 2024 Virtue marketing (hist | edit) [3,133 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A way of salving one’s generic discomfort about the implications of commerce by projecting them into marketing and branding.") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit