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   Financial regulatory and risk management challenges stemming from firm-specific digital misinformation
Casey K., Casey K. Journal of Data and Information Quality 11(1): 1-4, 2019.  Type: Article

In today’s digital economy, it is easy to alter the essence of information with regards to both context and value; thus, the potential for misinformation is huge. With this paper, Casey and Casey excellently present a new ris...

Sep 30 2021
  Mobile payment systems: secure network architectures and protocols
Téllez J., Zeadally S., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2017. 133 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319230-32-0)

These days, if you go shopping in any of China’s major cities, one thing that you will probably not see is people making purchases using cash, or for that matter credit cards. Whether buying a TV, a burger, or groceries, the ...

Feb 12 2019
  Fintech: AI powers financial services to improve people’s lives
Qi Y., Xiao J. Communications of the ACM 61(11): 65-69, 2018.  Type: Article

This survey article describes the financial technology (fintech) efforts of two Chinese companies. One company is Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba. Two pertinent examples show payment technologies supporting small businesses in i...

Dec 27 2018
  Credit scoring and its applications (2nd ed.)
Thomas L., Crook J., Edelman D., SIAM-Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, 2017. 387 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-611974-55-3)

Anyone involved in credit scoring, from financial professionals to advanced students in mathematics and business, should own this treatise. Heavily mathematical in its approach, it addresses the practical mechanics of contemporary cred...

Jun 21 2018
  Invest like a guru: how to generate higher returns at reduced risk with value investing
Tian C., Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, 2017. 224 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-119362-36-4)

Delivery of business-oriented software and its support has evolved radically over the last 30 years, from licensed mainframe packages with paid consultants, to time-shared program suites with telephone help lines, to personal computer ...

Feb 22 2018
  Banking beyond banks and money: a guide to banking services in the twenty-first century
Tasca P., Aste T., Pelizzon L., Perony N., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 316 pp.  Type: Book (978-3-319424-46-0)

If the reader is looking for a book that tells of the perks of opening a checking account at a bank, this text is the wrong choice. Banking beyond banks and money is a compendium of in-depth articles detailing the individual aut...

Jan 17 2017
  A primer for financial engineering: financial signal processing and electronic trading
Akansu A., Torun M., Academic Press, London, UK, 2015. 156 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-128015-61-2)

This concise 140-page introduction to financial engineering is structured in six chapters. The content addresses the most relevant topics required to grasp the basics of financial engineering and high-frequency trading....

Nov 8 2016
  Quantitative risk management: concepts, techniques and tools
McNeil A., Frey R., Embrechts P., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015. 720 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691166-27-8)

Quantitative risk management deals with modeling and calculations used for predicting frequencies and impacts of adversary events. McNeil et al. focus on financial risks, that is, events associated with bond prices, derivatives, econom...

Dec 22 2015
  Evolution and practice: low-latency distributed applications in finance
Brook A. Queue 13(4): 40-53, 2015.  Type: Article

Latency is an often-neglected quality when discussing performance. Often, the focus is on bandwidth or throughput; however, a big airplane loaded with disks can provide high bandwidth but terrible latency. Financial data is smaller tha...

Sep 14 2015
  Quantitative finance: an object-oriented approach in C++
Schlögl E., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2013. 354 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-584884-79-8)

I should state at the outset that I am not a “quant.” My interest in quantitative finance is purely recreational rather than professional. I have been fascinated by the world of quantitative finance ever since I rea...

Mar 4 2015
 
 
 
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