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Deriving Options

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And while the video does a good job of explaining option basics, it also discusses some of the beauty behind the math. A really interesting Veritasium video walks through a brief history of options and the mathematics behind the Black-Scholes model.

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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Math That Doesn’t Add Up

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Banks may not always be up for overhauling their operations to replace it with a largely untested, disruptive technology, but new reports suggest the threat of fraud in one area of corporate finance could encourage financial institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology in growing volumes.

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Data Key To The Build-Or-Buy Question Of Enterprise Finance Apps

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Love noted that he sees APIs as a growing presence in corporate finance, as banks react to the demand among consumers and businesses to take control of their own data. One is what he described as “math phobia.”

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards. And that kind of did work.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

Barry Ritholtz

He was a corporate finance person. So, it’s not one of these fuzzy math situations where you don’t really know what the value of the fund is because it’s got private companies in it that are being marked by individuals who have an ax to grind in the mark. MORGENSON: Drexel collapsed.