Swedish House of Finance Conference on: Machine Learning and AI in Finance

CfP Deadline Date: March 31, 2022 Conference Event: August 22-23, 2022 Event Location: Stockholm, Sweden Keynote speaker(s): Bryan Kelly (Yale University and AQR Capital Management) Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago) Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College) Thierry Foucault (HEC) Organizer(s): Swedish House of Finance CONFERENCE AGENDA: The conference will consist of one day with academic keynote speakers[…]

17th Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets

CfP Deadline Date: June 30, 2022 Conference Event: December 8-9, 2022 Event Location: Sydney, Australia Keynote speaker(s): Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania) Wei Xiong (Princeton University) Organizer(s): Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Financial Research Network (FIRN), Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre (DFCRC) The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in cooperation with the Financial Research Network[…]

BIS Quarterly Review – Global banks’ local presence: a new lens

Author(s): Iñaki Aldasoro, John Caparusso and Yingyuan Chen Date: February 2022 Abstract: Banks operate internationally through networks of branches and subsidiaries, also known as foreign banking offices (FBOs). Newly collected system- and entity-level data across two dozen host countries confirm stylised facts on these entities’ balance sheets and establish new ones. Subsidiaries, which resemble local[…]

Finance Down Under (FDU) Conference 2022

CfP Deadline Date: March 2, 2022 Conference Event: March 4-5, 2022 Event Location: Online Keynote speaker(s): Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University) Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University) Organizer(s): University of Melbourne The Department of Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne is pleased to continue its annual conference series: Finance Down Under:[…]

BIS Working Paper – Non-bank lenders in the syndicated loan market

Author(s): Iñaki Aldasoro, Sebastian Doerr and Haonan Zhou Date: March 2022 Abstract: Non-bank lenders are an important source of syndicated credit to non-financial corporates in most regions and industries. Their loan origination, however, is more concentrated by location and sector than that of banks and it is also more volatile. Syndicated loans arranged by non-banks[…]

February 2022: FSB warns of emerging risks from crypto-assets to global financial stability

by Financial Stability Board (FSB) Crypto-asset markets are fast evolving and could reach a point where they represent a threat to global financial stability due to their scale, structural vulnerabilities and increasing interconnectedness with the traditional financial system. This is the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB’s) updated assessment of risks to financial stability from crypto-assets, published[…]