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Han, Song and Nikolaou, Kleopatra, Trading Relationships in the OTC Market for Secured Claims: Evidence from Triparty Repos (May 27, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2785586 “We use a new panel data set on intraday transactions of triparty repos (TPR) to study trading relationships in the over-the-counter market. We test the prediction that search …
FT Business Education Report, May 23, 2016: ” For the dream of life long learning to be realised fully, those in the 35-60 age group must also be given the opportunity to refine and revise their skills through out their careers, which could well stretch into their seventies. This is not happening enough. Executive education …
Via FDIC Overview – “Section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) requires state nonmember banks and state savings associations with total consolidated assets of more than $10 billion to conduct annual stress tests. On October 15, 2012, the FDIC published its final annual stress test rule (Part 325), …
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System – Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households, May 2016 Key Findings – “Overall, individuals and their families continue to express mild improvements in their general well-being relative to that seen in 2013 and 2014. However, a number of adults still indicate that they are experiencing …
What Can We Learn from Publicly Available Data in Banks’ Living Wills? Steve Bright, Paul Glasserman, Christopher Gregg, and Hashim Hamandi, May 25, 2016. “This brief analyzes the public portions of resolution plans, or “living wills,” in which large U.S. banks describe how they would manage their own potential failures. The authors found that the …
A Map of Collateral Uses and Flows. Andrea Aguiar, Richard Bookstaber, Dror Y. Kenett, and Thomas Wipf, May 26, 2016: “Collateral is exchanged among market participants to support financial activities, including secured funding, securities lending, securities exchanges, margin lending, derivatives, and clearing. This working paper creates a collateral map to show how collateral moves among …
“Statistics from the 2014 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) indicate that manufacturing establishments show gains in receipts but lower employment over time. The infographic contains three visualizations, including a time-series graph of changes in employment and receipts from 2002-2014, a comparison of employment and receipts by subsector for the years 2013 and 2014, and a …
Disaster Recovery: FEMA Needs to Assess Its Effectiveness in Implementing the National Disaster Recovery Framework, GAO-16-476: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016. DOD Financial Management: Greater Visibility Needed to Better Assess Audit Readiness for Property, Plant, and Equipment, GAO-16-383: Published: May 26, 2016. Publicly Released: May 26, 2016. Human Trafficking: Actions Taken …
“TRACE International is pleased to introduce TRACEpublic, the first global registry of beneficial ownership. Developed in direct response to the risks inherent in secret company ownership, TRACEpublic enables companies to voluntarily and publicly provide their ownership information as a means to enhance corporate transparency and facilitate meaningful due diligence. Although identifying the beneficial owners of third party intermediaries, joint venture partners, distributers, suppliers and agents is …
Data Sources & Methods Archive “Productivity developments in 2015 – Growth in global output per worker slowed down in 2015, mainly because of a slowdown in output growth in emerging markets and developing economies: Productivity in resources-rich economies in Latin America, Africa and Russia is declining on the back of declining oil prices China’s labor …
AP release: “Retirement Planning in America: Anxiety, Inequality, and the Role of Social Security, focuses on attitudes and planning behaviors about retirement. The results reveal a number of inequalities in older Americans’ retirement planning, with significant divides between lower- and upper-income Americans. Income levels and feelings of anxiety are also related to the type and …
Via Pacific Standard: Troubled Water: A Map of Tomorrow’s Thirsty Future A survey of regional water crises: community stress and political standoffs “North America – The Ogallala aquifer provides nearly one-third of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States. In 2013, researchers estimated that, at current rates, farming in places like Kansas is …
