"Financial Markets in Practice: From Post-Crisis Intermediation to FinTechs delivers an overview of risk transformations operated by the financial industries from the perspective of quantitative finance. It gives a pedagogical and comprehensive understanding of the structure of the financial...

1. Introduction -- 2. The impact of index design on asset management.-3. Pros and cons of Active management -- 4. Searching for market drivers: Factor investing -- 5. Hybrids increasingly blurring active/passive line -- 6. The need for a change: Sustainable finance -- 7. The next challenge: ESG...

Country practices towards managing financial risks on a sovereign balance sheet continue to evolve. Each crisis period, and its legacy on sovereign balance sheets, reaffirms the need for strengthening financial risk management. This paper discusses some salient features embedded in in the...