According to Jean Louis Monnier, head of European ILS at Swiss Re, direct investment in Insurance Linked Securities is a market reserved to qualified institutional investors which manage a minimum of 100 million dollars and which have the ability to evaluate the risk associated to these transactions…

What happens when the financial markets are confronted to cultural values? The financing structures that conform to Islamic law are at the top of an evolution aiming to integrate cultural values in a globalised economy. Right now, the sukuk (Islamic products on capital markets) are at the heart of this trend.

According to Alain Dib, Global Head of Equity-Linked business at BNP Paribas, the appetite for convertible bonds is greater than the available supply, currently proposed by issuers

Describe the real world with numbers is a trend that seems to be accelerating. Thus, digital technology is associated with financial models to show that we (human) interact with our environment using mathematical models.

After the strong start to the year equity markets are getting vulnerable to profit taking. A further rise in oil prices could well provide the excuse for doing so, certainly as the momentum in liquidity creation seems to have peaked