Advances in Financial Risk Management: Corporates, Intermediaries and Portfolios is essential reading to those interested in better understanding developments in the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) environment. There are seventeen papers that provide the latest research on measuring, managing...

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the 1930s up to the financial crisis. Two main trends are...

Breakthroughs in computing hardware, software, telecommunications and data analytics have transformed the financial industry, enabling a host of new products and services such as automated trading algorithms, crypto-currencies, mobile banking, crowdfunding and robo-advisors . However, the...