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Hope US authorities have written the script before the play. Skilled but not wise traders made record profits at the cost of others. It was a moral meltdown, all the way. Another Enron, but larger, on...
Compare share turnover ratios of Nasdaq US and NasdaqOMX Nordic exchanges: 1040% vs. 140% in October 2009 (see figure here). Trading is seven times more active in the Nasdaq US. Spring 2010 will brin...
It is indirect, the industry representatives used to say. Then the stories went to the difficulty to provide climate change- or sustainability-oriented mutual fund products as they underperform the ma...
Not a one finance professional has even smiled on this comparison. Odd, because these verbs are almost synonyms meaning similar activity - cleaning the cowshed after risks have realised and diseased p...
I wrote a blog post "slaves of leverage" [thank you for the comments] in Nov 2008. Now you see it happening: pension systems are seriously damaged, taxpayers' money is poured into banks, go...
Is this crisis the end of social lending? Yes and no. Majority of the social lending services which have been shut down (Prosper and Zopa US, to name the famous ones) were actually more like tradition...
I attended a Hindu wedding in New Delhi last week. Met a banker from Dubai and asked about real-estate. He said: leveraged, and massively. Leverage was the key word and I saw it. We are slaves of leve...
Just wanted to share this wonderful emerging trend amidst these traumatic times. BT announced September 29th to provide managed security services for Euroclear. That includes: security monitoring capa...
The phenomenon of social networking is becoming increasingly popular and the number of web tools that facilitate online conversation and interaction are growing. Millions of people are now exploitin