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(about 1 day ago) - FNA 2.2.0 just released at http://t.co/cOx6jQoj - see http://t.co/AJAQX9iC for release notes
(about 2 days ago) - Slides from my @PRMIA webinar | http://t.co/1s1leHNm
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Author Archives: Kimmo Soramäki
FNA alpha version is available at fna.fi
After a busy summer we are proud to release the first online version of the FNA (Financial Network Analytics) platform at www.fna.fi. The site is currently in ‘private alpha’ stage. This means that all main functionality is available but it may not be completely polished yet.
FNA is an application for exploring, analyzing and visualizing [...]
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Screenshots from FNA prototype
For the last couple of months we have been working hard on the new version of FNA. FNA is a platform for analyzing, exploring and visualizing financial networks (download FNA Info sheet).
Working with large (often messy) datasets is hard, so our focus has been to make it as easy and intuitive as possible. Thus FNA [...]
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Financial Networks Research Update 2/2011
Here are a few papers that were recently added to the database.
A network analysis of global banking:1978-2009 (April 2011) by Camelia Minoiu and Javier A. Reyes carries out an empirical analysis on the structure and statistical properties of the global banking network. They use cross-border bank lending data for 184 countries over 1978–2009. They find [...]
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June is a busy conference month
Quite a few conferences and workshops on financial networks are being held in June this year. Here are the ones with open participation.
First, there is NetSci2011 in Budapest on 6-10 June. It hosts two interesting “Satellite events”, a business network research conference Circuits of Profit on 6 June and Network of Networks which [...]
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Financial Networks Research Update 1/2011
Its been three months since the last “Research update” and a number of interesting papers have been published meanwhile. Please let me know if you have one to add.
An agent-based model of payment systems by Marco Galbiati and Kimmo Soramäki (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control) builds an agent based model where banks choose the [...]
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NetSci2011 and Complex Systems by DNB
NetSci2011 will take place in Budapest on 6-10 June 2011 bringing together researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science across disciplines. The conferece will host a number of shorter satellite events including the business network research conference Circuits of Profit and NetONets focusing on Systemic Risk and Infrastructure Interdependencies.
De Nederlandsche Bank [...]
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Financial Network Analyzer update
As many of you know, Financial Network Analyzer is the program that I have been developing for the past year and a half. Its currently mainly used by central banks for the analysis of financial microdata and for the simulation of payment systems.
After major rewrite of much of the application and thorough testing, FNA 1.3 [...]
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GFRI is organising its first “Financial Networks” conference in June
The Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) is organising its first “Financial Networks” research conference on 10 June 2011 in Geneva. Their intention is to make it an annual event. The program is impressive with papers covering trading networks, networks of capital flows and network analysis on systemic risk and contagion. Registrations should take [...]
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Where to publish research?
I get this question asked every once in a while and here are some thoughts, personal experiences and little analysis of the Financial Networks Research Database.
Looking at the database (n=78), most articles were published as working papers or equivalent, a majority of which in central bank series. This is natural as central banks have access [...]
Updates for the New Year