As we know very well (since we are now painfully familiar with inflation being above target), a key part of inflation targeting is that the Monetary Policy Committee increases or decreases the Bank Rate in order to help inflation to come back to target. So, let’s take a look at the history of both the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and the Bank Rate focusing on the last 3 decades of inflation targeting.
50 years since women joined the LSE
Exactly fifty years ago today –on March 26, 1973, women joined the London Stock Exchange for the first time in its 200-year history.
Invited Talk – Mathematics for Beginners
This week I had the honour to open the 1st Season of the conference series “Mathematics for Beginners” organised by the REMIM (Mexican Network of Mathematics Institutes) and the SMM (Mexican Mathematics Society). The series aims to promote mathematics by discussing theoretical and applied topics with a general audience, as well as sharing different career options that students can take after finishing their studies in Mathematics.
Expert Lecture at KCL
Last week, I had the honor to give an Expert Lecture at King’s College to MSc students from the Computational Finance programe.
fanchart 1.0.3
New release of my Python package fanchart.
Starting a New Project
One of the reasons to start this blog was to share my journey from being a recently graduate in Mathematics –with little knowledge about the financial industry– to becoming a […]
Aleatory 0.1.0
I am pleased to announce that my latest project “aleatory 0.1.0”, a Python library to simulate and visualise stochastic processes, has been released and is now available in PyPi.
From 2022 to 2023
My 2022 year review, random thoughts, books, pictures.
Q4-2022 CPI Inflation Forecasts
The latest Bank of England CPI inflation forecasts.
Workshop on Financial Mathematics
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to participate in the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling by giving a 4 hours course/workshop titled “A Short Introduction to Monte Carlo […]