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- 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) [12,340 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) [15,505 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) [27,349 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...")