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Mortgage Backed Securities & its Importance
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Mortgage Backed Securities & its Importance

Mortgage-backed securities, called MBS, are bonds secured by home and other real estate loans. MBS is a product of Asset-Backed Securities.

Owais Siddiqui
01 Oct 2022
5 min read
Counterparty Risk: Definition, Types and How Finance Professionals Manage It
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Counterparty Risk: Definition, Types and How Finance Professionals Manage It

Counterpart risk is defined as the risk that a counterparty is unable or unwilling to live up to its contractual obligations

Owais Siddiqui
01 Oct 2022
1 min read
Why Choose an Online ACCA Revision Course?
ACCA
Qualification Guides

Why Choose an Online ACCA Revision Course?

Save money, save time, and increase your chances of passing the ACCA with an online ACCA revision course. Read on to find out more.

Conor Motyer
01 Oct 2022
5 min read

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How to Pass ACCA Strategic Business Leader
ACCA
Study & Exam Technique

How to Pass ACCA Strategic Business Leader

If you’re wondering how to pass ACCA Strategic Business Leader this comprehensive guide will tell you everything you need to know to pass the first time.

Conor Motyer
01 Oct 2022
37 min read
7 Ways to Create a Productive ACCA Study Environment
ACCA
Study & Exam Technique

7 Ways to Create a Productive ACCA Study Environment

Are small details hindering your ACCA success without you realising it? Study environment seems like a minor thing, but getting it wrong has big consequences.

Alan Lynch
01 Oct 2022
6 min read
Foreign Currency and Local Currency Defaults
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Foreign Currency and Local Currency Defaults

Foreign currency defaults occur when countries fail to repay debt, while local currency defaults often result from inflation.

Owais Siddiqui
01 Oct 2022
5 min read

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Futures Contract
Risk & Quantitative Finance

Futures Contract

Futures Contract – Financial institutions use Hedging to increase financial stability and reduce the risk of financial distress.

Owais Siddiqui
30 Sept 2022
6 min read
LOGIT models
Risk & Quantitative Finance

LOGIT models

LOGIT model is rom the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) family. It is primarily widely used as a statistical tool to predict default

Owais Siddiqui
30 Sept 2022
4 min read
Mean Reversion
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Mean Reversion

Mean reversion is the tendency of a variable to revert to a long-term level, which can also be called an unconditional mean.

Owais Siddiqui
30 Sept 2022
6 min read
What is Risk Appetite?
Accounting & Finance Concepts

What is Risk Appetite?

Risk appetite refers to the level (and types) of risk that a firm is willing to retain.

Owais Siddiqui
30 Sept 2022
3 min read
Correspondent Banking
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Correspondent Banking

Respondent banks with no international presence can use cross-border correspondent connections to operate in jurisdictions to which they don’t have access

Owais Siddiqui
29 Sept 2022
6 min read
Independent Events in Probability: What Finance Professionals Need to Know
Accounting & Finance Concepts

Independent Events in Probability: What Finance Professionals Need to Know

If the outcome of one event has no bearing on the likelihood of the other, they are considered independent events.

Owais Siddiqui
29 Sept 2022
1 min read
What is Adjusted R-Squared?
Accounting & Finance Concepts

What is Adjusted R-Squared?

The adjusted R squared modifies the standard R squared to account for the degrees of freedom used when estimating model parameters

Owais Siddiqui
29 Sept 2022
3 min read

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