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• 08:35, 13 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design thin rules (Created page with "Thin rules create not just arbitrary obligations, loosely targeted at a principle, but arbitrary ''rights'' which people seek to ''enforce''. The arbitrary boundaries become a value, irrespective of the substance of the circumstances. A thick rule is “only cross the road if it will not impede traffic and would be be safe to do so”. The thin rule would be, “do not cross unless there is a green man”.") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 08:19, 13 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Thin rules (Created page with "{{essay|design|thin rules|}}") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 05:25, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa design weisendämmerung (Redirected page to Data modernism) Tag: New redirect
• 05:20, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Design - Premium (Created page with "{{c|Design}}")
• 05:20, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Systems (Created page with "Systems")
• 05:13, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design weisendämmerung (Created page with "{{d|Weisendämmerung|/viːzɛndæmərʌŋ/ <br>From {{Buchstein}}s’ opera of the same name, a pun on Nietzsche’s ''Götzen-Dämmerung'', itself a pun on Wagner’s ''Götterdämmerung''|n}} The twilight of the wise. {{Otto}}’s fear that the machines would overcome the humans in a tragic race for existential stupidity. ====Data as a self-fulfilling prophecy==== {{Data as a self-fulfilling prophecy}}")
• 05:03, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Weisendämmerung (Created page with "{{essay|design|weisendämmerung|}}")
• 01:44, 12 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Contract - Premium (Created page with "{{c|contract}}")
• 00:33, 11 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Data as a self-fulfilling prophecy (Created page with "There is, the JC freely narratises, an epochal battle raging between experts and technocrats which the technocrats have, for thirty years, been winning. As yield to the superficial charm of artificial intelligence the war feels like it is in an end-game: there is no way out for the meatware: no ''Götterdammerung'', no great final conflict — just a feeble whimpering out of human expertise, finally beaten down by the irrepressible logic of data. ...")
• 22:51, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa design org chart (Created page with "*Line management *Reduction in force *Dotted line")
• 22:51, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design org chart (Created page with "{{quote|What you see is all there is. :— {{author|Daniel Kahneman}}}} {{quote|Der Teufel mag im Detail stecken, aber Gott steckt in den Lücken.<br>''“The Devil may be in the detail, but God is in the gaps.”'' :—{{Buchstein}}, ''Die Schweizer Heulsuse''}}{{d|Org chart|/ɔːg ʧɑːt/|n|}} A glib schematic that tells you everything you ''don’t'' need to know about an organisation, but which it treats as its most utmost secret. ===Form, not [[substance]...")
• 22:50, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Design (Created page with "Design")
• 22:23, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 12.9(a)(iii) (Created page with "*Why Failure to Deliver is the flame-haired step-child of the Additional Disruption Events family *A read across to the stock-lending and cash equities markets deal with physical settlement disruptions, which happen a ''lot'' *A tentative hypothesis as to why Failure to Deliver is routinely disapplied in synthetic equity derivatives master confirmations")
• 04:28, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa Equity Derivatives Exchanges, Clearing Systems and Currencies (Created page with "*Clearing system")
• 04:28, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives Exchanges, Clearing Systems and Currencies (Created blank page)
• 03:17, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 5 (Created page with "*On the difference between Final Price and Relevant Price *VWAP adjustments to Final Price for US Shares *How Equity Notional Reset works")
• 03:13, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Credit Derivatives - Premium (Created page with "{{c|Credit Derivatives}}")
• 02:43, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa eqderiv equity v credit derivatives showdown (Created page with "*Equity derivative anatomy *Credit derivative anatomy")
• 02:35, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary eqderiv equity v credit derivatives showdown (Created page with "A long essay taking in: *The general “vibe” of CDS versus CFDs *Overview and place in capital structure: the curious fact that credit derivatives, though “senior” are more concerned with bankruptcy *As a means to synthetic exposure versus insurance versus loss *As a buyside service and sellside hedging tool *How they handle — or in the case of CDS, really ''don’t'' handle — subordinated instruments *How thresholds and notionals relate to each")
• 02:22, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro eqderiv equity v credit derivatives showdown (Created page with "After a long hiatus learning the ways of the {{eqdefs}}, the JC is back in the land of credit derivatives, and has been undertaking remedial ninjery with the sacred texts of the {{cdd}}. You can learn about his travails from NiGEL, in the panel. Here we do the service of comparing, in broad strokes, equity derivatives with the credit derivatives. Nominally just derivatives attaching to a different part of the capital structure, but don't be fooled. Almo...")
• 02:14, 10 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Federal Republic of Nigeria v JP Morgan Chase Bank (Redirected page to Gross negligence) Tag: New redirect
• 21:54, 9 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium summary contract gross negligence (Created page with "*Why interposing any behavioural standard into the threshold for breach of contract makes a category error. *Why tortious standards make no sense at all for contractual relationships *The single exception where a negligence standard makes sense in a contract: an indemnity *The grossness of gross negligence and why it is American nonsense that should stay on that side of the ditch.")
• 21:46, 9 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa contract gross negligence (Created page with "*Degrees of liability *Negligence")
• 21:45, 9 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro contract gross negligence (Created page with "{{quote| “Even a serious lapse is not likely to be enough to engage the concept of gross negligence. One is moving beyond bad mistakes to mistakes which have a very serious and often a shocking or startling (cf. “jawdropping”) quality to them.” :—{{casenote|Federal Republic of Nigeria|JP Morgan Chase Bank}}}}''For a long essay on the related question “why would one ''use'' negligence in a contract at all?” see the article about “contractual negl...")
• 23:51, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page File:Heroes.jpeg
• 23:51, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs uploaded File:Heroes.jpeg
• 23:13, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa repack registered security (Created page with "*Bearer security *Debt security *Equity security")
• 23:13, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro repack registered security (Created page with "{{d|Registered security|/ˈrɛʤɪstəd sɪˈkjʊərəti/|n|}}One of the two great forms of an English-law medium term note, the other being a bearer note. A security in “registered” form, is one whose ownership is determined by entry in the official share register, rather than by mere possession the instrument (which is called a “bearer instrument”)<ref>For a lawyer this is elemental stuff; one...")
• 23:11, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Registered note (Redirected page to Registered security) Tag: New redirect
• 00:30, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs moved page The laws of data science lie to How the laws of data science lie
• 00:25, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page How the Laws of Physics Lie (Created page with "{{a|book review |}}{{quote|The essays collected in this volume may be grouped around three different but interrelated arguments for this paradoxical conclusion. :(1) The manifest explanatory power of fundamental laws does not argue for their truth. :(2) In fact the way they are used in explanation argues for their falsehood. We explain by ''ceteris paribus'' laws, by composition of causes, and by approximations that improve on what the fundamental laws dictate. In all...")
• 00:11, 8 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M intro design how the laws of data science lie (Created page with "In 1983 philosopher Nancy Cartwright wrote the seemingly scurrilous {{Br|How the Laws of Physics Lie}} — not quite the post-modernist tripe it sounds like, but rather a serious and literate work of analytical philosophy. Cartwright’s point was that scientific laws are formulated in conditions so rigid, isolated and controlled that, even though they might be perfectly valid within those conditions, they are practically useless “in the real world,” where those...")
• 22:17, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page The laws of data science lie (Created page with "{{essay|design|{{PAGENAME}}|}}")
• 22:11, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 6.4 (Created page with "*A pointer where the real work is done on Market Disruption Event. Not here.")
• 01:19, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions Market Disruption Event (Created page with "{{2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions 6.3}}")
• 01:18, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa Equity Derivatives Market Disruption Event (Created page with "{{M premium Equity Derivatives 6.3(a)}}")
• 01:18, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives Market Disruption Event (Created page with "{{M premium Equity Derivatives 6.3(a)}}")
• 01:17, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M comp disc Equity Derivatives Market Disruption Event (Created page with "{{M comp disc Equity Derivatives 6.3(a)}}")
• 01:17, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ Equity Derivatives Market Disruption Event (Created page with "{{M summ Equity Derivatives 6.3(a)}}")
• 00:59, 7 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 6.3(a) (Created page with "*More on the effect upon Indices and Baskets *Exchange and Related Exchange")
• 23:28, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 10 (Created page with "*Note it’s about timings, not amounts *“Paid” dividends, or “declared”. *Dividend clawbacks and the user’s guide *The JC house view: situation normal.") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 23:23, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Dividend Mismatch Event - Equity Derivatives Provision (Redirected page to Dividend Recovery - Equity Derivatives Provision) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 23:22, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Declared Dividend - Equity Derivatives Provision (Redirected page to Dividend Recovery - Equity Derivatives Provision) Tags: New redirect Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• 07:52, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M sa Equity Derivatives 6.4 (Created page with "*Synthetic prime brokerage *Delta-hedging")
• 07:51, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M summ Equity Derivatives 6.4 (Created page with "Equity derivatives, being a delta-one product provided by swap dealers on the presumption that they take no market risk and hedge out all risks in the physical market, depends on the venues for that physical market being open as usual, and throughout the trading session (especially where Transactions are priced on volume-weighted average prices. An {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}, therefore, being such a place...")
• 07:35, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Category:Prime brokerage - Essay (Created page with "{{c|Prime Brokerage}}")
• 07:34, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:Pb (Created page with "prime brokerage")
• 07:33, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 11.4 (Created page with "*Why adjustments of this kind are quite rare and tend to happen immediately or not at all")
• 07:26, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 12.8(f) (Created page with "*The old “I want a dispute right for Calculation Agent and/or Determining Party determinations” chestnut. When to expect it, and how to respond to it, if “look, don’t be silly” doesn’t see you through.")
• 07:19, 6 August 2023 Amwelladmin talk contribs created page Template:M premium Equity Derivatives 1.40 (Created page with "*The difference between Determining Party and Calculation Agent, and what the User’s Guide has to say about it *Dispute rights for Determining Party and Calculation Agents: arguments you can expect to hear/make, and why you should push back on /be politely disabused of these foolish notions")