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De Big Five a Big Four: La desaparición de Arthur Andersen
19 february 2016

Hace 15 años se destapó el escándalo Enron. El fraude masivo en las cuentas de la energética se llevó por delante a la auditora Arthur Andersen, cuya reputación fue irremediablemente mancillada. Recordamos aquel episodio.
Walking amongst bears and bulls: The animals of Wall Street
11 february 2016

The stock markets have originated a near-infinite number of colloquial expressions, used to describe in a simple their actors and inner-workings. Here we compile some of Wall Street's best animalistic references.
5 key aspects of the "Risk Traffic Light" system
5 february 2016

Between the Defensor del Pueblo, the Stock Market National Committee and the Ministry of Economics, a new information system for retail investors has been brewing since 2012. Here we analyse the new “risk traffic light”, an initiative that on February 5^th finally turned green.
Welcome, Econometrics: 43 years without Ragnar Frisch
1 february 2016

One of the pioneers in the application of quantitative knowledge to economics passed away 43 years ago. Ragnar Frisch coined the term Econometrics and paved the way for eighty years of research. Here we remember the first ever Nobel Prize in Economics.
What is a rating agency?
29 january 2016

Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s…. We hear news about their ratings every few newscasts, but the average citizen understands little about their identity. Their opaque way of functioning has raised criticism and suspicions, yet few institutions or companies discontinue their services. Why?
Where can negative rates currently be found?
27 january 2016

Lenders don't pull in profits any more: they do the paying. Same goes for depositors. Negative yield now affects dissimilar yet interrelated assets and financial movements. For banks, investment options vanish; small investors face entirely new prospects.
The management of Deutsche Bank: Chronology of a chaotic year
25 january 2016

The first financial group of Germany and one of banking's references on a global scale faces perhaps the hardest spell in the bank's 58-year long history (after re-emerging in 1957), What has been going on in the last few months at DB?
What do the Qfb Workshops consist in?
20 january 2016

Every July the Master's Degree in Banking and Quantitative Finance organises a Workshop for second year students to present their research work. But these meetings are so much more than a simple presentation.
How will banks face the Fintech challenge?
14 january 2016

The financial sector is reinventing itself - thanks to technology. Fintech companies tripled their investment in 2015, and expect to decidedly burst into the Spanish market in 2016. Are traditional banks prepared?
Quants: The science of finance
8 january 2016

It has become the buzzword of the financial sector in the past few years. Everyone wants one: banks, investment groups, energy businesses, even betting houses. There are few of them, but on the shoulders of those few lies the behaviour of the global financial system, as it has done for over three decades. And alas, finance is often the last field of study they chose to follow. They are quantitative analysts: Quants.