The Big Data and Data Analytics is a brand new paradigm, for the integration of Internet Technology in the human and machine context. For the first time in the history of the human mankind we are able to transforming raw data that are massively produced by humans and machines in to knowledge and...

LIBOR-in-arrears swaps differ from regular swaps in that each payment is based on the LIBOR at the end of the payment period. For a regular swap it is the beginning-of-period LIBOR that is paid at the end of the payment period. This mismatch in cash flow timing makes the present value of a...

Risk management is a critical core issue among a variety of traditional financial institutions. Different institutions have grown with different objectives under different settings, and risk management has different historical strands of focus in institutions. This chapter reviews the...

The idea that lending without regard to ability to repay should be illegal is not particularly new, but it gained purchase in recent years with the rapid growth of high-cost mortgage loans. In the late 1990s, law enforcement and private litigants began attacking predatory mortgage lenders on the...

Credit rating agencies are widely regarded as partially responsible for the collapse of financial markets in 2008. Congress set out to reform the ratings industry with Dodd-Frank but recent scholarship suggests that these reforms have failed and rating agencies continue to make objective errors...

The article highlights the need for prison reforms in the country and in Maharashtra, and analyses the objectives and implementation of the scheme through the outcome budgeting process using logframe analysis. This article is based on the outcome budget analysis of a national flagship scheme...