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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. Cumming, DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at Florida Atlantic University. This post comes to us from Paul P.

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Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) - Can it Enhance Valuation?

Equilest

The APT is a multi-factor model that seeks to explain the behavior of stock prices based on various economic and market conditions. Finance professionals and investors have widely used this theory as a powerful tool to predict stock prices and portfolio returns. First, we need to estimate the factor loadings for each risk factor.

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Discount Rate—Explanation, Definition and Examples

Valutico

The WACC represents the overall cost of financing a company’s operations and is used to discount future cash flows to their present value. It represents the cost a company incurs to access funds through debt financing. It is the cost a company incurs for using equity capital to finance its operations and growth.

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

Musings on Markets

In this post, I look at risk, a central theme in finance and investing, but one that is surprisingly misunderstood and misconstrued. That said, and notwithstanding decades of research and debate on the topic, there are still wide differences in how risk is defined and measured. What is risk?

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The Fundamentals of Financial Risk Management Explained

Audit Board

Financial risk management is an especially sensitive and critical aspect of risk management for many companies, as it has to do with the safeguarding of the organization’s finances and the prevention of loss. Good financial risk management leads to cost savings, better decision-making, and improved returns.

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Valutico Announces Six New Features  

Valutico

New Emerging Market Data (From EMIS): What? We’ve integrated new emerging market transaction data from EMIS, a significant enhancement covered by major news outlets like Yahoo Finance and Asia One. New and existing customers can reach out to upgrade and access this valuable data that opens doors to critical insights.

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Cleary Gottlieb Discusses Proposed Capital-Requirement Increases for Banks

Reynolds Holding

The main thrust of the proposal is to eliminate the use of models in relation to credit risk and operational risk and, for market risk exposures, to make the use of models much more difficult to be approved (and to stay approved). from outside the large banking organizations).

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