Forming the Future of Finance

It’s already been an eventful year. From a new crisis in the Eurozone, to fresh controversies that continue to impact the reputation of the industry, risk continues to dominate and shape the world of finance. These issues require broad and bold changes in operating models and processes. At the same time we can’t forget that broad strokes also require detailed architectural and financial engineering. We hope that some of the detailed papers in this edition unravel the complexities inherent in any elegant solution.

This issue of the Capco Journal of Financial Transformation has a number of papers that deal with the problems of finance in a “bigger picture” context. We feature articles with high-level critiques of how the financial system is organized and operates; critiques on whole paradigms that are employed by a large part of the industry, such as econometrics; articles that explore the relationship between business models and regulation, the relevance of risk management techniques in systemically important banks, and the systemic role of credit rating agencies; and further contributions that examine general fractal and multi-fractal properties of time series, or offer an analysis of instruments that are directly related to banks’ capital policies, namely CoCo bonds.