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- S-001Book
Admati, A. and Hellwig, M., The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, Princeton University Press, 2013.
- S-002Web
Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC), SOFR Starter Kit and related user guides.
- S-003Book
Aristotle, Politics, Book I, chapter 11 (the story of Thales and the olive presses).
Cited inL1.7.06 Options: calls and puts Association of German Pfandbrief Banks (vdp), history of the Pfandbrief.
Review notesL1.4.02 Types of bonds- S-005Paper
Avalos, F., Ehlers, T. and Eren, E., “September stress in dollar repo markets: passing or structural?”, BIS Quarterly Review, December 2019.
- S-006Book
Bagehot, W., Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, Henry S. King, 1873.
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks - S-007Report
Bank for International Settlements, BIS Bulletin and BIS Quarterly Review articles on the March 2020 US Treasury market turmoil.
Cited inL1.4.10 Bond markets in practice Bank for International Settlements, BIS Bulletin No 15, 2020, on US dollar swap lines.
Review notesL1.7.05 Currency and cross-currency swaps- S-009Web
Bank for International Settlements, Financial Stability Institute, FSI Connect tutorials and the online Basel Framework.
- S-010Report
Bank for International Settlements, OTC derivatives statistics (semi-annual survey).
- S-011Report
Bank for International Settlements, Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Over-the-counter (OTC) Derivatives Markets, 2022 and 2025 editions.
Cited inL1.1.04 Exchanges vs over-the-counter marketsL1.6.01 How the FX market worksL1.6.02 FX forwards and covered interest parityReview notesL1.7.02 Forwards - S-012Report
Bank of England, Board of Banking Supervision, Report of the Board of Banking Supervision Inquiry into the Circumstances of the Collapse of Barings, HMSO, July 1995.
Review notesL1.7.07 Option payoffs and strategies - S-013Official
Bank of England, Financial Policy Committee, records of 2023 on the resilience of LDI funds.
Cited inL1.2.05 Pension fundsReview notesL1.4.10 Bond markets in practice - S-014Report
Bank of England, Financial Stability Report, December 2022 (the LDI episode).
- S-015Report
Bank of England, Financial Stability Report, July 2019.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-016Report
Bank of England, Financial Stability Report, October 2008.
- S-017Official
Bank of England, market notices of 28 September and 14 October 2022 on temporary purchases of long-dated gilts.
Cited inL1.2.05 Pension fundsReview notesL1.4.08 Duration - S-018Web
Bank of England, “SONIA interest rate benchmark”: key features and methodology.
- S-019Official
Bank of England, the Chancellor's monetary policy remit (2% inflation target).
Cited inL1.3.07 Real vs nominal rates - S-020Official
Bank of Japan, statement on monetary policy, 19 March 2024.
Cited inL1.3.01 The time value of money - S-021Official
Bank of Japan, statement on the 2% price stability target, January 2013.
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks - S-022Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and IOSCO, Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives, BIS, 2013 (revised 2015, 2019 and 2020).
- S-023Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Basel III leverage ratio framework and disclosure requirements, BIS, January 2014.
Review notesL1.8.06 Capital, equity and leverage - S-024Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems, BIS, December 2010 (revised June 2011).
- S-025Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Basel III: Finalising post-crisis reforms, BIS, December 2017.
- S-026Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Basel III: The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and liquidity risk monitoring tools, BIS, January 2013.
Cited inL1.1.07 Market liquidityReview notesL1.6.03 Money markets - S-027Web
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, “History of the Basel Committee”, BIS website.
Review notesL1.6.01 How the FX market works - S-028Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Interest rate risk in the banking book, BIS, April 2016.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework (Basel II), BIS, June 2004.
Review notesL1.8.08 Reading an annual report- S-030Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Minimum capital requirements for market risk, BIS, January 2019.
Cited inL1.4.09 Convexity - S-031Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Pillar 3 disclosure requirements: consolidated and enhanced framework, BIS, March 2017.
Cited inL1.8.08 Reading an annual report - S-032Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, Supervisory guidance for managing risks associated with the settlement of foreign exchange transactions, BIS, February 2013.
Cited inL1.6.01 How the FX market works - S-033Official
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, The Basel Framework (consolidated standards), BIS; chapters cited include CAP10 (definition of capital), CRE20 (standardised approach to credit risk), CRE22 (credit risk mitigation), CRE40 onwards (securitisation) and DIS (Pillar 3 disclosure templates).
- S-034Web
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: the 1648 Lekdijk Bovendams water board bond.
Cited inL1.4.01 What is a bond? - S-035Report
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., letters to shareholders, including Warren E. Buffett's Chairman's letter in the 2002 Annual Report.
- S-036Paper
Black, F. and Scholes, M., “The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities”, Journal of Political Economy 81(3), 1973.
- S-037Web
Bloomberg, Global Aggregate negative-yielding debt data (December 2020).
Cited inL1.4.04 Yield to maturity - S-038Official
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Bank Term Funding Program announcement, 12 March 2023.
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks - S-039Web
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Central bank liquidity swaps” (web pages).
- S-040Official
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, press releases of 21 September 2008.
- S-041Report
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Review of the Federal Reserve's Supervision and Regulation of Silicon Valley Bank, April 2023.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, statement of 20 October 1987 on its readiness to serve as a source of liquidity.
Review notesL1.1.10 A short history of financial crises- S-043Official
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy (first adopted January 2012).
Cited inL1.3.07 Real vs nominal rates - S-044Book
Bodie, Z., Kane, A. and Marcus, A. J., Investments, McGraw Hill.
- S-045Book
Bogle, J. C., The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, Wiley.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-046Paper
Borio, C., McCauley, R., McGuire, P. and Sushko, V., “Covered interest parity lost: understanding the cross-currency basis”, BIS Quarterly Review, September 2016.
- S-047Book
Brealey, R. A., Myers, S. C. and Allen, F., Principles of Corporate Finance, McGraw Hill.
Cited inL1.1.03 Primary and secondary marketsL1.3.01 The time value of moneyL1.3.02 Simple and compound interestL1.3.03 Present value and discountingL1.3.04 Annuities and perpetuitiesL1.5.01 What a share isL1.5.02 How companies issue and retire sharesL1.5.03 Valuing equities: the dividend discount modelL1.5.04 Valuation multiplesL1.6.07 Currency risk for companies and investorsL1.8.01 Accounting basics - S-048Paper
Brunnermeier, M. K. and Pedersen, L. H., “Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity”, Review of Financial Studies 22(6), 2009.
Cited inL1.1.07 Market liquidity Calaprice, A. (ed.), The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Review notesL1.3.02 Simple and compound interestCalifornia Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, order taking possession of Silicon Valley Bank, 10 March 2023.
Review notesL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheet- S-051Paper
Campbell, J. Y. and Shiller, R. J., “Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run Stock Market Outlook”, Journal of Portfolio Management 24(2), 1998.
Cited inL1.5.04 Valuation multiples - S-052Book
Campbell, J. Y., Lo, A. W. and MacKinlay, A. C., The Econometrics of Financial Markets, Princeton University Press, 1997.
Cboe Global Markets, company history (the first listed share options, 1973).
Review notesL1.7.06 Options: calls and puts- S-054Report
Cboe Global Markets, VIX White Paper: Cboe Volatility Index (methodology) and VIX historical data.
- S-055Book
CFA Institute, Fixed Income Analysis (CFA Institute Investment Series), Wiley, the reading “Introduction to Fixed-Income Valuation”.
Cited inL1.4.04 Yield to maturity - S-056Paper
Chen, H.-C. and Ritter, J. R., “The Seven Percent Solution”, Journal of Finance 55(3), 2000.
- S-057Book
Choudhry, M., The Bond and Money Markets: Strategy, Trading, Analysis, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
Cited inL1.4.02 Types of bonds - S-058Book
Choudhry, M., The Repo Handbook, 2nd edition, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010.
- S-059Web
CME Group, Chicago SRW wheat futures contract specifications.
- S-060Web
CME Group, Euro FX futures contract specifications.
CME Group, SPAN margin methodology overview.
Review notesL1.7.07 Option payoffs and strategiesCME Group, Term SOFR reference rates methodology.
- S-063Official
CPMI-IOSCO (Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and International Organization of Securities Commissions), Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures, BIS, April 2012.
- S-064Paper
Culp, C. and Miller, M., “Metallgesellschaft and the Economics of Synthetic Storage”, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 7(4), 1995.
- S-065Book
Damodaran, A., Investment Valuation, Wiley.
Cited inL1.5.04 Valuation multiples Davies, P., Gower's Principles of Modern Company Law, Sweet & Maxwell.
Review notesL1.5.01 What a share is- S-067Paper
Diamond, D. W. and Dybvig, P. H., “Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity”, Journal of Political Economy 91(3), 1983.
- S-068Book
Dimson, E., Marsh, P. and Staunton, M., Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns, Princeton University Press, 2002.
- S-069Paper
Du, W., Tepper, A. and Verdelhan, A., “Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity”, Journal of Finance 73(3), 2018.
- S-070Official
EIOPA, risk-free interest rate term structures (monthly publication and technical documentation).
Ellinger, E. P., Lomnicka, E. and Hare, C., Ellinger's Modern Banking Law, Oxford University Press.
Review notesL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheet- S-072Paper
Ellis, K., Michaely, R. and O'Hara, M., “When the Underwriter Is the Market Maker: An Examination of Trading in the IPO Aftermarket”, Journal of Finance 55(3), 2000.
Engel, C., “The forward discount anomaly and the risk premium: a survey of recent evidence”, Journal of Empirical Finance 3(2), 1996.
Review notesL1.6.02 FX forwards and covered interest parityESMA, Guidelines on Alternative Performance Measures, 2015.
Review notesL1.8.05 An insurer’s income statementEstrella, A. and Mishkin, F. S., “Predicting U.S. Recessions: Financial Variables as Leading Indicators”, Review of Economics and Statistics 80(1), 1998.
Review notesL1.3.08 The yield curve: spot and forward rates- S-076Report
European Banking Authority, Risk Dashboard and its methodological guide (quarterly).
European Central Bank, Financial Stability Review (bank price-to-book charts, 2012 to 2020 issues).
Review notesL1.5.04 Valuation multiples- S-078Web
European Central Bank, key ECB interest rates (historical deposit facility rates).
Cited inL1.3.01 The time value of money - S-079Official
European Central Bank, monetary policy decisions, press release of 5 June 2014.
- S-080Official
European Central Bank, monetary policy strategy statement, 2021.
- S-081Official
European Central Bank, Recommendation ECB/2020/19 on dividend distributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, 27 March 2020.
European Central Bank, supervisory banking statistics.
Review notesL1.2.01 Commercial banks: the business modelEuropean Money Markets Institute (EMMI), EURIBOR hybrid methodology and EONIA cessation notices.
European Union, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2205 (EMIR clearing obligation for interest rate swaps). Link
Review notesL1.7.04 Interest rate swaps- S-085Official
European Union, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/35 (Solvency II), including articles 290 to 298 on the Solvency and Financial Condition Report. Link
Cited inL1.8.08 Reading an annual report European Union, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/27 (short position notification threshold). Link
Review notesL1.5.07 Short selling and securities lending- S-087Official
European Union, Directive (EU) 2016/2341 (IORP II). Link
Cited inL1.2.05 Pension funds European Union, Directive (EU) 2017/1132 relating to certain aspects of company law (Article 72, pre-emption rights). Link
Review notesL1.5.01 What a share is- S-089Official
European Union, Directive (EU) 2019/2034 on the prudential supervision of investment firms (IFD). Link
European Union, Directive (EU) 2023/2225 on credit agreements for consumers (the recast Consumer Credit Directive). Link
Review notesL1.3.02 Simple and compound interest- S-091Official
European Union, Directive (EU) 2024/927 (revision of the AIFMD and UCITS Directive). Link
- S-092Official
European Union, Directive 2008/48/EC on credit agreements for consumers (Consumer Credit Directive). Link
- S-093Official
European Union, Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Solvency II); articles cited include 75 (valuation), 77 (technical provisions), 87 and 88 (own funds), and 100 and 101 (the SCR). Link
Cited inL1.2.03 Insurers: life and non-lifeL1.8.04 An insurer’s balance sheetL1.8.06 Capital, equity and leverageReview notesL1.3.04 Annuities and perpetuities - S-094Official
European Union, Directive 2009/65/EC (UCITS). Link
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-095Official
European Union, Directive 2011/61/EU on alternative investment fund managers (AIFMD). Link
- S-096Official
European Union, Directive 2014/49/EU on deposit guarantee schemes. Link
- S-097Official
European Union, Directive 2014/65/EU (MiFID II), including Article 57 (position limits). Link
- S-098Official
European Union, Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 on credit rating agencies. Link
- S-099Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2015/2365 on transparency of securities financing transactions and of reuse (SFTR). Link
- S-100Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 on indices used as benchmarks (the Benchmarks Regulation). Link
- S-101Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (the Prospectus Regulation). Link
- S-102Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 on money market funds. Link
Cited inL1.6.03 Money markets European Union, Regulation (EU) 2017/2401 (amending the Capital Requirements Regulation for securitisations). Link
Review notesL1.4.11 Securitisation basics- S-104Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 (the Securitisation Regulation). Link
Cited inL1.4.11 Securitisation basics - S-105Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 on the prudential requirements of investment firms (IFR). Link
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2019/876 (CRR2, amending the Capital Requirements Regulation). Link
Review notesL1.5.02 How companies issue and retire shares- S-107Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) 2021/23 on the recovery and resolution of central counterparties. Link
- S-108Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps. Link
- S-109Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (Capital Requirements Regulation), including Articles 77 and 78 and Part Eight (disclosure). Link
- S-110Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 (MiFIR), transparency provisions. Link
Cited inL1.1.06 How prices are formed - S-111Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR). Link
- S-112Official
European Union, Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (the Central Securities Depositories Regulation). Link
- S-113Official
European Union, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 127.
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks - S-114Book
Fabozzi, F. J. and Fabozzi, F. A., Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, 10th edition, Pearson, 2021.
Cited inL1.4.01 What is a bond?L1.4.02 Types of bondsL1.4.03 Pricing a bondL1.4.04 Yield to maturityL1.4.05 Clean price, dirty price and accrued interestL1.4.06 The price-yield relationshipL1.4.08 DurationL1.4.09 ConvexityL1.4.11 Securitisation basicsReview notesM-B03 Taylor expansion Fama, E. F., “Forward and spot exchange rates”, Journal of Monetary Economics 14(3), 1984.
Review notesL1.6.02 FX forwards and covered interest parity- S-116Official
FASB, Accounting Standards Codification Topic 230, Statement of Cash Flows.
Cited inL1.8.01 Accounting basics FASB, Accounting Standards Codification Topic 320, Investments: Debt Securities.
Review notesL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheetFASB, Accounting Standards Codification Topics 815 (Derivatives and Hedging) and 830 (Foreign Currency Matters).
- S-119Official
FASB, Accounting Standards Update 2016-13, Financial Instruments: Credit Losses (Topic 326) (CECL).
- S-120Web
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), deposit insurance pages: “Deposit Insurance FAQs” and “Understanding Deposit Insurance” (fdic.gov).
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Quarterly Banking Profile.
Review notesL1.2.01 Commercial banks: the business model- S-122Web
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR): reference rate methodology and data.
Cited inL1.3.06 Day counts and rate conventionsL1.6.05 Benchmark rates: from LIBOR to SOFR, €STR and SONIAReview notesL1.6.04 Repo and securities financing Federal Reserve Bank of New York, “The Yield Curve as a Leading Indicator” (recession probability page).
Review notesL1.3.08 The yield curve: spot and forward rates- S-124Official
Financial Conduct Authority, announcement on the future cessation and loss of representativeness of the LIBOR benchmarks, 5 March 2021, and later notices on the end of LIBOR (to 2024).
- S-125Official
Financial Conduct Authority, Bailey, A., “The future of LIBOR”, speech at Bloomberg London, 27 July 2017.
Financial Conduct Authority, Banking: Conduct of Business sourcebook (BCOBS).
Review notesL1.3.02 Simple and compound interestFinancial Conduct Authority, Consumer Credit sourcebook (CONC).
Review notesL1.1.02 Money, credit and interest- S-128Official
Financial Conduct Authority, statements on the Woodford Equity Income Fund, 2019.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-129Report
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, US Government Printing Office, January 2011.
Financial Services Authority, Final Notice to Barclays Bank plc, 27 June 2012.
- S-131Report
Financial Stability Board, Holistic Review of the March Market Turmoil, November 2020.
- S-132Official
Financial Stability Board, Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions, 2011 (updated 2014).
- S-133Report
Financial Stability Board, OTC Derivatives Market Reforms: Implementation progress (annual reports).
- S-134Report
Financial Stability Board, Reforming Major Interest Rate Benchmarks, July 2014, and its later progress reports.
- S-135Official
Financial Stability Board, Revised Policy Recommendations to Address Structural Vulnerabilities from Liquidity Mismatch in Open-Ended Funds, December 2023.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-136Official
Financial Stability Board, Strengthening Oversight and Regulation of Shadow Banking: Policy Framework for Addressing Shadow Banking Risks in Securities Lending and Repos, August 2013.
- S-137Report
Financial Stability Forum, Report on Addressing Procyclicality in the Financial System, April 2009.
- S-138Report
FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority), Lessons Learned from the CS Crisis, December 2023.
Cited inL1.4.02 Types of bonds FINMA, press release on the Credit Suisse AT1 write-down, 23 March 2023.
Review notesL1.4.02 Types of bonds- S-140Book
Fisher, I., Appreciation and Interest, American Economic Association, 1896.
Cited inL1.3.07 Real vs nominal rates - S-141Book
Fisher, I., The Theory of Interest, Macmillan, 1930.
Fleming, M. J. and Sarkar, A., “The Failure Resolution of Lehman Brothers”, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review 20(2), 2014.
Review notesL1.1.04 Exchanges vs over-the-counter marketsFreddie Mac, Primary Mortgage Market Survey (weekly series).
Review notesL1.1.02 Money, credit and interestG20, Declaration on Strengthening the Financial System, London Summit, 2 April 2009.
Review notesL1.8.03 A bank’s income statement- S-145Official
G20, Leaders' Statement: The Pittsburgh Summit, 24–25 September 2009.
Galati, G., “Settlement risk in foreign exchange markets and CLS Bank”, BIS Quarterly Review, December 2002.
Review notesL1.6.01 How the FX market works- S-147Book
Galbraith, J. K., The Great Crash 1929, first published 1955.
- S-148Book
Geman, H., Commodities and Commodity Derivatives, Wiley, 2005.
Cited inL1.6.06 Commodity markets - S-149Official
Global Foreign Exchange Committee, FX Global Code (first published 2017).
Cited inL1.6.01 How the FX market works - S-150Book
Goodhart, C., The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: A History of the Early Years, 1974–1997, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Gordon, M. J. and Shapiro, E., “Capital Equipment Analysis: The Required Rate of Profit”, Management Science 3(1), 1956.
- S-152Paper
Gordon, M. J., “Dividends, Earnings, and Stock Prices”, Review of Economics and Statistics 41(2), 1959.
Gorton, G. and Metrick, A., “Securitized banking and the run on repo”, Journal of Financial Economics 104(3), 2012.
Review notesLT1.6 Lab Test, Module 1.6- S-154Book
Gregory, J., Central Counterparties: Mandatory Central Clearing and Initial Margin Requirements for OTC Derivatives, Wiley, 2014.
Grullon, G. and Michaely, R., “Dividends, Share Repurchases, and the Substitution Hypothesis”, Journal of Finance 57(4), 2002.
Review notesL1.5.02 How companies issue and retire shares- S-156Book
Harris, L., Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, Oxford University Press, 2003.
- S-157Paper
Harvey, C. R., PhD dissertation on the term structure and economic growth, University of Chicago, 1986.
- S-158Paper
Harvey, C. R., “The real term structure and consumption growth”, Journal of Financial Economics 22, 1988.
- S-159Official
HM Treasury, The Green Book: Central Government Guidance on Appraisal and Evaluation.
- S-160Report
HM Treasury, The Wheatley Review of LIBOR: final report, September 2012.
- S-161Report
House of Commons Treasury Committee, The run on the Rock, Fifth Report of Session 2007–08.
Review notesL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheet - S-162Official
House of Lords, Foley v Hill (1848) 2 HLC 28.
Cited inL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheet - S-163Book
Hull, J. C., Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, 11th edition, Pearson, 2021.
Cited inL1.1.04 Exchanges vs over-the-counter marketsL1.1.05 Who trades: market participantsL1.2.07 Central counterparties and market utilitiesL1.3.02 Simple and compound interestL1.3.05 Continuous compoundingL1.3.06 Day counts and rate conventionsL1.3.08 The yield curve: spot and forward ratesL1.5.06 Equity returns and volatilityL1.6.01 How the FX market worksL1.6.02 FX forwards and covered interest parityL1.6.06 Commodity marketsL1.7.01 What derivatives are and why they existL1.7.02 ForwardsL1.7.03 Futures and marginingL1.7.04 Interest rate swapsL1.7.05 Currency and cross-currency swapsL1.7.06 Options: calls and putsL1.7.07 Option payoffs and strategiesL1.7.08 Put-call parityL1.7.09 What drives an option’s priceL1.7.10 Credit default swapsL1.7.12 Derivatives disasters and their lessons - S-164Book
Hull, J. C., Risk Management and Financial Institutions, Wiley.
Cited inL1.2.03 Insurers: life and non-lifeL1.2.05 Pension fundsL1.4.07 Credit ratings and credit spreadsL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheetL1.8.03 A bank’s income statementL1.8.04 An insurer’s balance sheetL1.8.05 An insurer’s income statementL1.8.06 Capital, equity and leverageL1.8.08 Reading an annual report IAASB, ISA 701 Communicating Key Audit Matters in the Independent Auditor's Report.
Review notesL1.8.08 Reading an annual report- S-166Official
IASB (International Accounting Standards Board), Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, 2018.
Cited inL1.8.01 Accounting basics - S-167Official
IASB, IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements.
Cited inL1.8.01 Accounting basics - S-168Official
IASB, IAS 19 Employee Benefits.
Cited inL1.2.05 Pension funds - S-169Official
IASB, IAS 21 The Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates.
- S-170Official
IASB, IAS 37 Provisions, Contingent Liabilities and Contingent Assets.
- S-171Official
IASB, IAS 7 Statement of Cash Flows.
Cited inL1.8.01 Accounting basics - S-172Official
IASB, IFRS 13 Fair Value Measurement.
- S-173Official
IASB, IFRS 16 Leases (lease liability measurement).
- S-174Official
IASB, IFRS 17 Effects Analysis, 2017.
- S-175Official
IASB, IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts, issued 2017, amended 2020, effective 1 January 2023.
IASB, IFRS 18 Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements (replaces IAS 1 from 1 January 2027).
Review notesL1.8.01 Accounting basics- S-177Official
IASB, IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures.
Cited inL1.8.08 Reading an annual report - S-178Official
IASB, IFRS 9 Financial Instruments, 2014 (section 5.5 on impairment; hedge accounting).
ICE Benchmark Administration, LIBOR methodology, history and cessation notices.
IFRS Foundation, jurisdiction profiles on the use of IFRS Accounting Standards.
Review notesL1.8.01 Accounting basicsInternational Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI), annual deposit insurance survey.
Review notesL1.1.01 Why financial markets existInternational Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), Insurance Capital Standard.
Review notesL1.8.04 An insurer’s balance sheet- S-183Official
International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), Insurance Core Principles and Common Framework for the Supervision of Internationally Active Insurance Groups (ComFrame).
- S-184Web
International Capital Market Association (ICMA), European Repo and Collateral Council, Frequently Asked Questions on Repo (updated regularly).
International Capital Market Association (ICMA), European Repo Market Survey.
Review notesL1.4.10 Bond markets in practice- S-186Official
International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Global Master Repurchase Agreement, 2011 version.
- S-187Official
International Capital Market Association (ICMA), Secondary Market Rules & Recommendations (day-count conventions).
- S-188Report
International Monetary Fund, Global Financial Stability Report, April 2024, chapter 2 on private credit.
- S-189Report
Investment Company Institute, Investment Company Fact Book (published yearly).
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-190Official
IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions), Principles for Financial Benchmarks: Final Report, July 2013.
- S-191Official
IOSCO, Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation.
- S-192Official
ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), 2006 ISDA Definitions, section 4.16 (Day Count Fraction).
ISDA, 2009 Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees, Auction Settlement and Restructuring CDS Protocols (the “Big Bang” and “Small Bang” protocols), and the Determinations Committees Rules.
Review notesL1.7.10 Credit default swaps- S-194Official
ISDA, 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions.
Cited inL1.7.10 Credit default swaps ISDA, IBOR fallback spread adjustments fixed on 5 March 2021 (published by Bloomberg as fallback adjustment vendor).
- S-196Book
Koller, T., Goedhart, M. and Wessels, D. (McKinsey & Company), Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 7th edition, Wiley, 2020.
- S-197Paper
Kyle, A. S., “Continuous Auctions and Insider Trading”, Econometrica 53(6), 1985.
Cited inL1.1.07 Market liquidity - S-198Report
LCH.Clearnet, statements on the Lehman Brothers default management, 2008.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year 2007.
Review notesL1.8.06 Capital, equity and leverage- S-200Web
Lloyd's of London, “Our history” (lloyds.com).
- S-201Report
London Metal Exchange, Independent Review of events in the nickel market in March 2022 (Oliver Wyman), 2023.
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London Metal Exchange, notices on the suspension of nickel trading, March 2022.
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Lowenstein, R., When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Random House, 2000.
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Macaulay, F. R., Some Theoretical Problems Suggested by the Movements of Interest Rates, Bond Yields and Stock Prices in the United States since 1856, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938.
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Mallaby, S., More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, Penguin Press, 2010.
- S-207Book
Maor, E., e: The Story of a Number, Princeton University Press, 1994.
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McLeay, M., Radia, A. and Thomas, R., “Money creation in the modern economy”, Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, 2014 Q1.
- S-209Paper
Mello, A. and Parsons, J., “Maturity Structure of a Hedge Matters: Lessons from the Metallgesellschaft Debacle”, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 8(1), 1995.
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Merton, R. C., “On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates”, Journal of Finance 29(2), 1974.
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Metrick, A. and Yasuda, A., “The Economics of Private Equity Funds”, Review of Financial Studies 23(6), 2010.
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Mishkin, F. S., The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Pearson.
- S-214Official
Moody's Investors Service, Rating Symbols and Definitions.
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Multi-State Lottery Association, Powerball draw of 7 November 2022 (jackpot and cash value).
- S-216Report
Nasdaq Clearing, statements on the member default of September 2018.
- S-217Book
Natenberg, S., Option Volatility and Pricing, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2015.
Review notesL1.7.08 Put-call parity - S-218Web
National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), Risk-Based Capital overview (naic.org).
New York Stock Exchange, history (the Buttonwood Agreement of 1792).
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- S-221Book
Norman, P., Plumbers and Visionaries: Securities Settlement and Europe's Financial Market, Wiley, 2007.
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O'Hara, M., Market Microstructure Theory, Blackwell, 1995.
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O'Kane, D., Modelling Single-name and Multi-name Credit Derivatives, Wiley, 2008.
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OECD, Pensions at a Glance (published every two years).
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Office for National Statistics, Consumer price inflation, UK: October 2022.
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OpenGamma (Henrard, M.), Interest Rate Instruments and Market Conventions Guide, 2nd edition, 2013.
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Pacioli, L., Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalita, Venice, 1494.
PCAOB, AS 3101 The Auditor's Report on an Audit of Financial Statements When the Auditor Expresses an Unqualified Opinion (critical audit matters).
Review notesL1.8.08 Reading an annual report- S-229Web
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).
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Petram, L. O., The World's First Stock Exchange, Columbia University Press, 2014.
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Pirrong, C., The Economics of Central Clearing: Theory and Practice, ISDA Discussion Papers No. 1, 2011.
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President's Working Group on Financial Markets, Hedge Funds, Leverage, and the Lessons of Long-Term Capital Management, April 1999.
- S-233Report
President's Working Group on Financial Markets, Overview of Recent Events and Potential Reform Options for Money Market Funds, December 2020.
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Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms, Report of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (the Brady Report), January 1988.
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Review notesL1.8.04 An insurer’s balance sheetQuote Investigator, on the “compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world” attribution to Einstein, 2011.
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Reinhart, C. M. and Rogoff, K. S., This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton University Press, 2009.
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Ritter, J. R. and Welch, I., “A Review of IPO Activity, Pricing, and Allocations”, Journal of Finance 57(4), 2002.
- S-239Report
Ritter, J. R., Initial Public Offerings: Updated Statistics, University of Florida (updated yearly).
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, press release for the 1997 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 14 October 1997.
- S-241Web
S&P Dow Jones Indices, historical closing levels of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500.
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S&P Dow Jones Indices, Index Mathematics Methodology (updated regularly).
Cited inL1.5.05 Stock indicesReview notesM-A08 Summation notation S&P Global Ratings, press releases on Ford Motor Co.'s ratings, May 2005 and 25 March 2020.
Review notesL1.4.07 Credit ratings and credit spreads- S-244Official
S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Ratings Definitions.
- S-245Web
S&P Global Ratings, Understanding Credit Ratings (guide on its website).
- S-246Report
Saudi Aramco, IPO prospectus and stabilisation announcements, 2019 and 2020.
- S-247Book
Saunders, A. and Cornett, M. M., Financial Institutions Management: A Risk Management Approach, McGraw-Hill.
Cited inL1.1.01 Why financial markets existL1.2.01 Commercial banks: the business modelL1.2.02 Investment banks and broker-dealersL1.2.03 Insurers: life and non-lifeL1.8.02 A bank’s balance sheetL1.8.03 A bank’s income statementL1.8.04 An insurer’s balance sheetL1.8.05 An insurer’s income statementL1.8.07 Key ratios for banks and insurers - S-248Book
Saunders, A. and Cornett, M. M., Financial Markets and Institutions, McGraw-Hill.
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Shiller, R. J., Irrational Exuberance, Princeton University Press, 2000.
Review notesL1.5.04 Valuation multiplesShiller, R. J., online data: “U.S. Stock Markets 1871–Present and CAPE Ratio”, Yale University.
Review notesL1.5.04 Valuation multiples- S-252Paper
Shiller, R. J., “The invention of inflation-indexed bonds in early America”, NBER Working Paper 10183, 2003.
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SIFMA, Capital Markets Fact Book (annual).
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Stern, N., The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, HM Treasury, 2006; Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- S-255Book
Stigum, M. and Crescenzi, A., Stigum's Money Market, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
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Stoll, H. R., “The Relationship Between Put and Call Option Prices”, Journal of Finance 24(5), 1969.
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Swiss National Bank, press release discontinuing the minimum exchange rate, 15 January 2015.
Swiss National Bank, press release setting a minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro, 6 September 2011.
- S-259Official
Swiss National Bank, press releases, March 2023.
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Swiss Re Institute, sigma reports on world insurance markets.
- S-261Paper
Taylor, J. B., “Discretion versus policy rules in practice”, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 39, 1993.
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Taylor, M., Twin Peaks: A Regulatory Structure for the New Century, Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), 1995.
- S-263Book
Tuckman, B. and Serrat, A., Fixed Income Securities: Tools for Today's Markets, 3rd edition, Wiley, 2011.
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UK Debt Management Office, Formulae for Calculating Gilt Prices from Yields.
- S-266Official
UK Debt Management Office, gilt auction and syndication procedures (operational notice).
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UK Debt Management Office, index-linked gilts.
- S-268Official
UK Debt Management Office, redemption of the undated gilts (4% Consols, 3½% War Loan and others), 2015.
- S-269Official
UK Debt Management Office, Treasury Bill Information Memorandum.
Cited inL1.6.03 Money markets - S-270Official
UK Parliament, Bank of England Act 1998.
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks UK Parliament, Companies Act 2006 (pre-emption rights, sections 561 and 570–571).
Review notesL1.5.01 What a share isUK Parliament, Insolvency Act 1986.
Review notesL1.5.01 What a share is- S-273Official
UK Parliament, Joint Stock Companies Act 1856.
Cited inL1.5.01 What a share is - S-274Official
UK Parliament, Limited Liability Act 1855.
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US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Interim Staff Report: Trading in NYMEX WTI Crude Oil Futures Contract Leading up to, on, and around April 20, 2020, November 2020.
- S-276Official
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, position limits rules (final rule, 2020).
Review notesL1.6.06 Commodity markets US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, swap clearing requirement, 17 CFR Part 50 (December 2012 determination).
Review notesL1.7.04 Interest rate swaps- S-278Official
US Congress, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 2010, Title VII.
- S-279Official
US Congress, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Cited inL1.2.05 Pension funds - S-280Official
US Congress, Federal Reserve Act of 1913, section 2A (monetary policy objectives).
Cited inL1.2.08 Central banks - S-281Official
US Congress, Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-282Official
US Congress, Investment Company Act of 1940.
Cited inL1.2.04 Asset managers and funds - S-283Official
US Congress, Securities Act of 1933.
Review notesL1.6.03 Money markets - S-284Official
US Congress, Truth in Lending Act, implemented by Regulation Z.
- S-285Report
US Congressional Oversight Panel, June Oversight Report: The AIG Rescue, Its Impact on Markets, and the Government's Exit Strategy, June 2010.
- S-286Official
US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Regulation DD (Truth in Savings), 12 CFR Part 1030.
- S-287Official
US Department of the Treasury, daily Treasury par yield curve rates.
- S-288Web
US Department of the Treasury, TreasuryDirect, how Treasury auctions work.
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US Department of the Treasury, TreasuryDirect, “Treasury Bills” (product terms and auction pricing).
Cited inL1.6.03 Money markets - S-290Web
US Department of the Treasury, TreasuryDirect, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS).
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Review notesL1.4.11 Securitisation basicsUS federal banking agencies, regulatory capital rule, 12 CFR Part 217 subpart D (Pillar 3-style public disclosures).
Review notesL1.8.08 Reading an annual reportUS Office of Financial Research, US repo market data.
Review notesL1.4.10 Bond markets in practice- S-294Report
US Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Findings Regarding the Market Events of May 6, 2010, 30 September 2010.
Cited inL1.1.07 Market liquidity - S-295Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, final rule on Treasury clearing (Standards for Covered Clearing Agencies for U.S. Treasury Securities), December 2023.
Cited inL1.4.10 Bond markets in practice - S-296Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, final rule shortening the securities settlement cycle to T+1 (Release No. 34-96930), February 2023.
- S-297Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, Form 10-K General Instructions and Regulation S-K.
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US Securities and Exchange Commission, Form PF and the private fund adviser registration rules under the Dodd-Frank Act.
- S-299Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, Regulation NMS, 2005.
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US Securities and Exchange Commission, Regulation SHO (17 CFR 242.200 to 242.204) and Rule 201.
- S-301Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rule 10b-18, 17 CFR 240.10b-18 (adopted 1982, Release No. 34-19244).
- S-302Official
US Securities and Exchange Commission, Rule 15c3-1 (net capital) and Rule 15c3-3 (customer protection).
- S-303Report
US Securities and Exchange Commission, Staff Report on Equity and Options Market Structure Conditions in Early 2021, October 2021.
US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, The Role of the Board of Directors in Enron's Collapse, 2002.
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Valukas, A. R., Report of Anton R. Valukas, Examiner, In re Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., US Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, March 2010.
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Watts, T. W., Duncan, G. J. and Quan, H., “Revisiting the marshmallow test”, Psychological Science 29, 2018.
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Williams, J. B., The Theory of Investment Value, Harvard University Press, 1938.