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What are current interest rates on senior/junior/mezzanine loans for e.g. real estate developers?
For a case study I have to work on for a university course, about a real-estate-development project, I need to simulate the financing with different proportions of equity (40%), senior loan (35%), ...
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Could banks move to continuous (rather than overnight) funding?
The dominant frequencies for Money Market and FX instruments were 6m and 3m for a long time, and banks slowly moved to commercial trades at those frequencies but funding overnight. If this is a step ...
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What is a standard credit default swap contract and where can I find spread data? What alternatives exist to judge creditworthiness?
I'm doing some work for a company and one of my tasks is to research credit default swaps on banks and to write a page about them explaining what they are and how they're used to evaluate the banks' ...
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Where can I find data on the interbank lending market?
Where can I find disaggregated interbank lending data (i.e. bank A lends to bank B x money at y rate)? I could only find data on interest rates.
I would accept LIBOR market data as well as any ...
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Issues when considering a quantitative trading/finance firm
I have an upcoming quantitative trading interview (prop desk at a large bank), and I would like to have some good questions to ask about the group. However, I am changing fields from academia and I do ...
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What is the role of Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) desks in investment banks?
What does a CVA (Credit Valuation Adjustment) desk do, and how are its activities different from other trading desks? Can you work as a quant for a CVA desk and consider your role "front office"?
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How does currency valuation depend on the cash reserve ratio for a country?
Currency valuation (with respect to other currencies) is an important parameter in finance, but how is it related to the cash reserve ratio?
