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Thomson Reuters Training Programs in December

Nov 4th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance, Announcements, Business Education, Business Research

The Thomson Reuters Markets Academy will be conducting classes at One Raffles Quay, #28-00 North Tower, Singapore 048583.
 The training will focus on Reuters X300, Options, US TIPS, Economic Data, Investments, Bonds, CDS, US Treasuries and FX.
Please register at the the site linked above.
If you have any enquiries, please email sin.training@reuters.com.



Papers from the 3rd Singapore International Conference on Finance

Sep 8th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance

The conference organized by the SAW Centre in NUS has published the conference papers.  The papers are avaialable for free and cover hedge funds, options, compensation, assets, and banking.



TaqTic is now Reuters Datascope Tick History

Jul 17th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance, Company Information, E-Resource Updates, New Resources, Resources

From 17 July, the TaqTic database will not be available.  Reuters Datascope Tick History will replace it.
Reuters provides the historical data starting from 1 January 1996.  It provides global intraday and end of day Time and Sales, and Time and Quotes data.  It covers commodities, economic indicators, energy, equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, funds, futures, [...]



Open Access Repository for Finance

Jun 1st, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance, E-Resource Tips

The Library at Cornell University opened the Quantitative Finance archive on 8 December 2008.
The seven categories are:

Computational Finance with reference to financial markets
General Finance with reference to Economics too
Portfolio Management
Securities Pricing
Risk Management
Statistical Finance
Trading and Market Microstructure

Papers are available from 1997 onwards.



Corporate Governance in SSRN

May 13th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance, Business Education, Business Research, Faculty Publications, Resources

The Social Science Research Network has a new Corporate Governance Network.
At the moment, the research papers series are the Oxford Internet Institute Research Paper Series and the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper Series.  The Subject Matter eJournals provide access to 25 journals (including archives) that can be accessed by an SSRN subscriber.
Subscription [...]



Impact of the Financial Crisis on Emerging Countries

May 12th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance

The Commission on Growth and Develpment conducted a confererence in Harvard University, the USA, on 20 to 21 April on the Financial Crisis and its Impact on Developing Countries’ Growth Strategies and Prospects.  The papers presented and transcripts of the speeches have been put up on the website.
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Educate Yourself at YouTube – part 2

May 6th, 2009 | By Balbindar Dhaliwal | Category: Accounting, Banking & Finance, Business Education

The Khan Academy provides more than 700 YouTube videos.
Salman Khan is an investment professional in the US and has collected the videos to provide “a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.”
Some of the topics are: Banking; A bank’s income statement; Fractional Reserve Banking; Multiplier effect and the money supply; Introduction to Bank Notes; Reserve Ratios, and more videos on the [...]