2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the iconic movies that figures in all the must-see and best movies lists. […]
Book reviews of the Unreal kind. Here, I discuss the books I have read, and share my impressions with my readers. I read mostly non-fiction or classics. And when I say read books, I mean listen to them in audiobook (always unabridged) form. Audiobooks have the ability to make your commute or gym workout something you look forward to, rather than dread. When reviewed, they present a disadvantage though, that they cannot be referred to. Thus quotes from them become paraphrasing, names get misspelled and so on. Please excuse such shortcomings…
Note that these are not real reviews. Most of these books are so well-known that they are really beyond reviews. So my Unreal reviews are more like my impressions and thoughts, often containing spoilers.
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the iconic movies that figures in all the must-see and best movies lists. […]
I thought I was done with this atheism series. However, I came across this passage from Wayne Dyers’s book, Your
Winding up this long series with book recommendations. All right, recommending my own book…
The perspective that is most common in the bank is still trade-centric. But view that the whole bank appreciates is the view of the senior management, which is narrowly focussed on the bottom line. Here is more about such perspectives.
The perspective employed by the Middle Office team is that of queues running in a first-in, first-out mode.
The product-centric view of the quantitative developer suits their work paradigm.
The perspective of the mathematical wizards of the bank, and why they often appear far-removed from the rest of the bank.
In this last section of this post series on how a bank works, we will see how the quants, quantitative developers and the middle office professionals (and the rest) see trades and trading activity.
Quick summary of the section on the trade lifecycle, before we move on to the final section on the perspectives held dear by various business units in a bank.
On the termination phase of the life of a trade.
Once a trade is booked into the trading platform, it is monitored and processed on a daily basis. Here is a short summary of such activities.
On the activities around product conceptualization and trade inception.