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- 20:25, 21 November 2024 Anthropological history of money (hist | edit) [5,280 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}Imagine an anthropological history of money that traces from outright arms-length barter to trade of goods against private promissory notes to the creation of bilateral indebtedness to the centralisation of promissory instruments through private intermediaries (i.e., banks) to the standardisation of promissory instruments against abstract units of value to the creation of currencies by central government agencies The physical marketplace where traders of a...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 16:49, 5 November 2024 The Master and His Emissary (hist | edit) [2,055 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|review|}}{{bi}}")
- 11:06, 2 November 2024 Variable rate (hist | edit) [354 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}{{drop|O|f a borrowing}} arrangement, that the method for resetting its interest rate over its term to maturity references something more convoluted than the prevailing market interest rates. That is, it is not merely a “floating” rate. {{sa}} {{gb|Interest<li>Fixed rate and floating rate<li>Lending versus financing}}")
- 10:30, 1 November 2024 Close-out! Close-out! Close-out! An Opco Boone Adventure (hist | edit) [2,837 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|opcobooneadventure|}}{{drop|B|oone arrived just}} as the paramedics were dragging Dan Grade’s insensate form out . He seemed pale, but alive — though this may have been his face reflecting the dancing light from the inferno raging across the Wharf. The huge Frenchman ushered them in. The General Counsel led her crack squad of ED commandos. They snapped to in front of the Head Trader. Florian shrugged. Fryer barked, “At Ease.” Bosanquet’s corner office, us...")
- 11:37, 31 October 2024 Evyan skin cream and L’Air du Temps (hist | edit) [402 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|heroes|{{wmc|Clarice and Lecter.jpg|}}}}{{quote| “You use Evyan skin cream, and sometimes you wear ''L’Air du Temps'' — but not today.”}} If there is a greater joy than seeing Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster face off in ''Silence of the Lambs'', I am yet to find it. {{sa}} {{gb|Terminating a finance contract<li> Senior relationship management}}")
- 17:42, 29 October 2024 Events of Default versus Termination Events showdown (hist | edit) [34 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|isda|EOD vs TE showdown|}}")
- 14:54, 29 October 2024 Shannon entropy (hist | edit) [72 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|tech|shannon entropy|{{image|language bitrate|}}}}")
- 18:02, 28 October 2024 Default Rate - 1987 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [31 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|2002|Default Rate}}")
- 13:58, 28 October 2024 Thomas Hobbes (hist | edit) [623 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}{{Quote| “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”}} {{drop|A|philsopher to}} stand in contradiction to Adam Smith. Whereas Smith recognises human society’s ability to productively self-organise, Hobbes stands for the principle that the only thing that stops us from murdering each other is a powerful, coercive state: A...")
- 08:51, 28 October 2024 Terminating a financial contract (hist | edit) [126 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|on termination|{{wmc|SV Mattersburg vs. FC Wacker Innsbruck 20130421 (51).jpg|You’re off, sunshine}}}}") originally created as "Termination of a finance contract"
- 14:30, 26 October 2024 Liquidity buffer (hist | edit) [35 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|crr|liquidity buffer|}}")
- 08:26, 25 October 2024 Lending versus financing (hist | edit) [39 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A fundamental distinction in the capital markets between lending and financing: Lending involves the outright assumption of credit risk against a borrower; financing involves the outright assumption of market risk against an asset. In a financing there is always a second loss risk exposure to the borrower — so ''residual'' credit risk — but this remains fully contingent on asset failure, and that in turn is a failure of ''market'' risk management rather...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 08:24, 21 October 2024 Bank capital (hist | edit) [109 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|banking|Why is bank capital expensive?}}") originally created as "Why is bank capital expensive?"
- 14:40, 17 October 2024 Scientific realism (hist | edit) [656 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}{{qd|Scientific realism|/ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk ˈriːəlɪzəm/|n|The position that scientific theories provide true or approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of the world, that unobservable entities postulated by these theories (e.g., atoms, electrons, genes) exist independently of the scientific research programme, and that these programmes — not usually described in such scurrilously relativist terms) typically...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:53, 17 October 2024 Feedback loop (hist | edit) [586 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|systems|}}{{qd|Feedback loop|ˈfiːdbæk luːp|n|A mechanism where the output or result of a process within a system is used as input to influence the behavior and future state of the system creating a circular causality that tends to amplify or stabilise the system’s behaviour.}} Feedback loops can be positive (reinforcing) where they amplify change, potentially leading to exponential growth or decline or negative (stabilising) where they counteract change, r...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 18:24, 14 October 2024 Deconstructionism (hist | edit) [937 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Grabstein_von_Niederdollendorf%2C_R%C3%BCckseite._Cropped.jpg" alt="bla" /> A peculiarly ''French'' strand of post-modernism — leading lights numbering among them Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Julia Kristeva — all pictured with amusing roll neck sweaters, Galois cigarettes and wavby hairdos — “deconstructionists” whose main industry was a...")
- 13:38, 14 October 2024 Past and future (hist | edit) [1,498 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|design|}}A great divide, and one that, However obvious it is, we pay less Attention to then we should. To be trite: what exists in the past is fixed, immutable, unchangeable, and conceptually known. It is bounded, choate, and predictable in the sense that it has happened. By contrast, the future has none of these qualities we are in a complex system it is unbounded the game is infinite, and none of the facts with which we educate ourselves exist in it. All are from...")
- 15:54, 13 October 2024 Research programme (hist | edit) [1,661 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|philosophy|}}Imre Lakatos’ concept of the research programme is a development from Thomas Kuhn’s concept of the paradigm —. A research programme consists of a “hard core” of fundamental assumptions a set of basic, foundational assumptions that are considered irrefutable within the programme — and a “protective belt” of auxiliary hypotheses that can be modified, adjusted, or replaced to defend the hard core against anomalies or contradicto...")
- 10:14, 13 October 2024 Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (hist | edit) [5,391 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|br|}}''The original version of this review was first published in 2006'' {{drop|I|n which Alan}}} Sokal takes on some big arguments, swats some flies but loses hands down. He persuades us that there were fakers and charlatans in Social Sciences departments in the ’90s. Anyone who’s been to university and didn’t know that deserves a clip around the ear and to be sent to the back of the class. Now either Sokal didn’t know that (~clip~), or he spends half his b...")
- 09:28, 13 October 2024 Transgressing hermeneutical boundaries (hist | edit) [150 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{afreeessay|philosophy|transgressing hermeneutical boundaries}}")
- 09:22, 11 October 2024 Implied warranties (hist | edit) [1,196 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|boilerplate|}}If you fear the overwhelming reach of consumer protection legislation colouring your commercial arrangements with grownup counterparties who should know better, you may find yourself suggesting: {{quote|To the fullest extent permissible by law we hereby expresslyexclude all terms, conditions, warranties or representations which otherwise would be implied by law including those relating to quality, fitness for any particular purpose, or suitability...")
- 13:24, 9 October 2024 Receipt and transmission of orders (hist | edit) [481 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|euregulation|}}A person or firm only carrying out the regulated activity of '''receipt and transmission of orders''' under MiFID II would not have the same best execution obligations as those executing orders. They have related but distinct obligations focused on acting in clients’ best interests and selecting appropriate entities for order transmission.")
- 11:03, 3 October 2024 Bankruptcy shenanigans (hist | edit) [4,527 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}“Bankruptcy shenanigans” is a handy label JC has contrived to describe all the phantoms, phantasms and night sweat horrors that plague the deep oubliettes in the minds of Basel Committee members when contemplating what might happen in a foreign jurisdiction when a failing company goes through the phase transition from solvency into bankruptcy. Zero-hour rules, disappearing safe harbors, ERISA netting, mendacious Cherry-pick...")
- 09:17, 3 October 2024 Bankruptcy petition - ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|2002|bankruptcy petition}}")
- 09:17, 3 October 2024 Bankruptcy petition - 1992 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1992|bankruptcy petition}}")
- 09:17, 3 October 2024 Bankruptcy petition - 1987 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [38 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1987|bankruptcy petition}}")
- 08:54, 1 October 2024 What would ISDA do? (hist | edit) [2,152 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|boilerplate|{{whitetextbox|margin-bottom:5px;}}{{isdalogo|''If it’s not in, it’s not on.''{{tm}}}} {{tb}}}}{{qd|In irons|/ɪn aɪənz/|Prepositional phrase|Stalled, prow to wind, and unable to come about or tack either way.}} {{drop|S|hould you find}} yourself composing finance contracts out of fresh air and upon clear blue water you may find yourself becalmed, or “in irons”, broiling under the midday sun, wrestling with the dreary questi...") originally created as "Is it in the ISDA?"
- 07:03, 29 September 2024 Microsoft Excel (hist | edit) [740 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|tech|}}{{VisiCalc capsule}} ====End-user applications==== VisiCalc was more than just a glorified calculator: it was its own programming language: you could, effectively, build your own little programmes in it to automate tasks. Users quickly became dependent on these little home-made programmes to manage substantial strategic risks. This became a live issue for financial services regulators when they realised many of the financial products that blew up in the [...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 06:40, 26 September 2024 The past is a different country (hist | edit) [1,581 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|stats|}}The past misleads us into believing the world is solvable because the past is fixed, complete, all knowable information is known, there can be nothing unexpected. ''We know what happened ''. When the data is in we can calculate, somehow the probability Lucy Letby there was a serial killer on the ward. Could we have predicted that in advance? All data is from the past. It can do a tidy job of helping us fill in the gaps about the past by triangulati...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 10:36, 22 September 2024 The Bayesian (hist | edit) [71 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{afreeessay|design|The Bayesian|{{wmc|20240808 Bayesian Yacht.jpg|}}}}")
- 10:13, 21 September 2024 Transubstantiation (hist | edit) [339 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|crypto|}}{{qd|Transubstantiation||n|A Christian doctrine that during Holy Communion, that wafery thing and the horrid sweet sherry is transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ, even though it still looks, and tastes, for all the world like bread and wine.}} This is rather like the clever trick non-fungible tokens, and Bitcoin, are meant to have played on a distributed ledger. A piece of code is transformed into actual art or capital. {{...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 10:04, 21 September 2024 Fiat currency (hist | edit) [1,350 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|banking|}}{{qd|Fiat currency||n|Money that has value by legal decree — literally, government fiat —and not because it is backed by a precious metal or a physical commodity.}} To be contrasted with a cryptocurrency, which is not really currency at all and isn’t backed by anything either. The expression “fiat currency” is often preceded by the adjective “degenerate”, especially in the mouths of Bitcoiners, who regard it as an enabler of t...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 13:23, 20 September 2024 Peril-sensitive sunglasses (hist | edit) [398 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|myth|}}{{quote|“Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you.” :—{{hhgg}}}} {{sa}} *Undead ISDA")
- 09:28, 18 September 2024 Complaint (hist | edit) [1,006 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|psychology|}}When someone complains you have a choice: you can overreact or underreact. If you overreact—apologising and making amends with a fulsomeness out of all proportion with the original offence—you more or less oblige the complainer to step back: “Oh it is nothing. I am sorry to have raised it.” The aggrieved customer may then profess to be more delighted with his experience than he might have had the inconvenience never arisen. You have made lemonad...")
- 10:35, 15 September 2024 Template:Audio isda When variation margin attacks (hist | edit) [62 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{audio|when-variation-margin-attacks|4NqwuggRDIFADW19AbRVqI}}") originally created as "Audio isda When variation margin attacks"
- 07:46, 15 September 2024 Inference (hist | edit) [4,069 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|crime|}}{{d|Inference|/ˈɪnfərəns/|n|A conclusion derived from existing information by acceptable reasoning. Such as by {{L1}}Deduction, the application of formal logic to valid premises to reach a necessary conclusion: “all cats are mammals; this is a cat; therefore this is a mammal.” <br>Induction, which argues from many past instances to a general predictive forward statement: the sun has risen everyday in recorded history; therefore it will rise to...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- 12:16, 14 September 2024 We fought the law and the law won - Dangermouth (hist | edit) [604 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a¬podcast|}}Special guest Olly Buxton (A.K.A. "The Jolly Contrarian") leads Mikey and Darrell through the ossified entrails of the Legal Establishment in our first outing into its echoing dusty halls. The Law is an edifice so vast, so powerful and so ancient that waves of changes bounce ineffectually off its granite walls. Even granite does not last forever. Rest assured that despite the dark tones of formality, we remain steadfastly jolly throughout. Olly is as...")
- 12:15, 14 September 2024 Mastering complexity - Dangermouth (hist | edit) [472 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|podcast|{{spotify|2n8QTLeSrLe8dGDKfR78H7}}}}In a spookily prescient example, London Underground and a nesting plover conspire to derail this episode, but the show does go on. Darrell and an epically deranged Mikey are joined by Shana and Olly the Jolly to discuss how an understanding of complexity should alter the way you behave. I think we have unfinished business! Special thanks to Paul Wilkinson for knocking this verbal spaghetti into a wonderful Podcast.")
- 12:07, 14 September 2024 Disrupting the legal industry - The Optimised Lawyer (hist | edit) [269 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|podcast|{{spotify|5b0GpsbohSWSiTGNBdUl9F}}}}")
- 11:36, 14 September 2024 Podcasts and audio (hist | edit) [423 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|devil|{{whitetextbox|margin-bottom:5px|}}{{catbox|Audio}} {{tb}}<div>}}")
- 17:16, 13 September 2024 Office - 1987 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [25 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1987|Office}}")
- 17:16, 13 September 2024 Office - 1992 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [25 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1992|Office}}")
- 16:27, 13 September 2024 Tax - 1987 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [22 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1987|Tax}}")
- 11:27, 12 September 2024 Bank recovery and resolution (hist | edit) [931 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|crr|}}Bank recovery and resolution regimes are regulatory frameworks designed to manage failing banks while minimising systemic risk and protecting taxpayers. Recovery includes preventive measures banks must implement when facing financial stress and plans they must have (living wills) to restore themselves to financial health without government intervention. Resolution procedures that allow regulators to intervene and manage failing institutions, restructuring th...") originally created as "BRRD"
- 18:59, 11 September 2024 Bankruptcy as a phase transition (hist | edit) [123 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|bankruptcy phase transition|}}") originally created as "The phase transition of bankrupcty"
- 16:09, 11 September 2024 Munted (hist | edit) [186 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|pe|}}{{qd|Munted|/ˈmʌntɪd/|adj|(''New Zealand slang'') Rooted. Buggered. Stuffed. Shot. Carked. Knackered. Beached as. In a general state of irretrievable disrepair. ''Fucked''.}}")
- 10:17, 10 September 2024 Not free from doubt (hist | edit) [779 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}A worked example of the buttocractic oath from those in private practice. Usually uttered in a legal opinion — you will find them buried on a footnote on page 236 of the third schedule to a netting opinion — this is a fee-earning lawyer’s way of saying what she is obliged to say to achieve a commonsense outcome, where the law she is opining on plainly says something else. {{quote| I have fees to earn and so, even though this is patent...")
- 08:35, 10 September 2024 Regolamento (hist | edit) [534 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|otto|}}Regolamento is a comic character in {{otto}}’s famously dull opera Talentdämmerung (a.k.a. {{br|Twilight of the Subject Matter Experts}}). A blustering, bluffing, self-aggrandising fool, Regolamento oversees compliance with the many and varied rules, policies and procedures in the Presuntuosa family’s ancestral banking organisation. A literalist, Regolamento is well known for missing the point. {{quote| {{dsh windows}} }}")
- 18:07, 9 September 2024 Burmese Jungler (hist | edit) [1,140 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{qd|Burmese Jungler|bɜːˈmiːz ˈʤʌŋɡləˈ/|n|One so hardened in the ways of the Single Agreement, in whom the candle was lit so early and for whom it burns so brightly, that she still insists on trading on the {{1987ma}}.}} More recently the label has begun to apply to those who still insisting on the now-32-year-old {{1992ma}}. So named for Hiroo Onoda, a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who did not get the memo th...") originally created as "Burmese Junglers"
- 15:40, 7 September 2024 Tax Event Upon Merger - 1987 ISDA Provision (hist | edit) [40 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{nman|isda|1987|5(b)(iii)}}")