In the sister blog and on Twitter during January-July 2017
The following posts appeared on the sister blog (on Computing) during January-July 2017.
Why Aadhaar transaction authentication is like signing a blank paper (Cross-posted on this blog as well)
Predicting human behaviour is legal, predicting machines is not? (Cross-posted on this blog as well)
The blockchain as an ERP for a whole industry (Cross-posted on this blog as well)
Tweets during January-July 2017 (other than blog post tweets):
- 16 June 2017
- Madoff exposer Markopolos' description of typical auditors: "22-year olds who catch more colds than frauds." https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2017/06/11/harry-markopolos-who-exposed-madoff-has-uncovered-a-new-fraud
- 14 June 2017
- Philosophy in front of a bank headquarters building: "some deep contradictory energies are swirling around" https://aeon.co/essays/do-we-all-need-a-little-time-simply-to-sit-and-think
- 12 June 2017
- The Banco Poplar rescue has been generally praised, but Regulation Asia has a convincing argument that ECB failed http://www.regulationasia.com/article/banco-popular-rescue-%E2%80%93-illiquid-isn%E2%80%99t-insolvent
- 23 March 2017
- "Everything radiated professionalism ... [the hackers] probably knew better than the banks." https://www.wired.com/2017/03/russian-hacker-spy-botnet/
- 16 March 2017
- South African central bank selling its shares to the public http://www.bis.org/review/r170316b.pdf. Similar to Switzerland http://www.snb.ch/en/iabout/snb/id/qas_unternehmen_1
- March 9 2017
- Bloomberg's euro scenario probabilities add up to 205% (breakup=95%, saved=110%) https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-euro-breakup-or-saved/?cmpid=BBD030817_BIZ
- 13 February 2017
- Very relevant today: political biases can lead to poor investment performance: http://www.allaboutalpha.com/blog/2017/02/12/moszoro-and-bykhovsky-on-political-cognitive-biases/ … or https://ssrn.com/abstract=2811350
- 24 January 2017
- David Birch: "the key innovations in technology in banking do not originate in banks" http://www.chyp.com/payments-and-passports/
- 15 January 2017
- CHRIS DILLOW: "Everything you need to know about finance can fit onto a single sheet of A4" http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2017/01/work-capitalism-retirement.html
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