Category Archives: Conferences

7th Bank of Finland Simulation seminar

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: September 4, 2009
The Bank of Finland’s simulation seminar was organized for the 7th time on 24-26 August 2009. I thought both the talks and the discussions on the agenda this year were of high quality. I presented some work done together with Marco Galbiati on central counterparties and the topology of clearing networks. The conference covered analysis [...]
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First ABM-BaF in Torino

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: February 20, 2009
The first workshop on Agent-Based Modeling in Banking and Finance (ABM-BaF, see agenda) was organized by ISI Foundation, the Association of Italian Bankers, the Italian Cognitive Science Association and the Department of Economics and Public Finance “G. Prato” of the University of Torino. The three day event (9-11 February 2009) brought together researchers, bankers [...]
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Economics of payments

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: October 27, 2008
Norges Bank organized on 14-15 November its conference on the burgeoning literature of “Payment economics”. Papers covered mainly retail payments topics and interchange fees continued to be on the forefront. The conference agenda with the papers and discussions can be found here.
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Bank of Finland Simulation Seminar

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: August 28, 2008
As for the past five late August weeks, the Bank of Finland organised its annual Payment and Settlement Simulation Seminar. The BoF-PSS2 simulator which I helped to create is now in use in 72 sites across the world, mainly at central banks, clearing houses and universities. The seminar program consisted of a wide array of [...]
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The interdependencies of payment and settlement systems

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: June 13, 2008
The Bank for International Settlements has published on 4th of June a report with the above name (pdf). The emergence of global financial institutions and national systems that are linked to each other e.g. to synchronise the two legs of foreign exchange transactions have created an environment where a disturbance in one system has the [...]
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Payments and monetary and financial stability

By Kimmo Soramäki | Published: April 29, 2008
The proceedings from the Joint European Central Bank – Bank of England conference on “Payments and monetary and financial stability” were recently published. The publication provides an excellent overview of the key infrastructural issues in the fields of payments and banking and the current policy questions. Two branches of ongoing projects where I participate were [...]
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