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Prizing and discussing responsible innovation in finance

A report and video footage of the award ceremony of the Dufrénoy Prize for Responsible Innovation in Finance at Mines ParisTech are available here. The Dufrénoy Prize was awarded to the Reserve Bank of India for its precautionary approach to … Continue reading

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18 June 2012: award ceremony at Mines ParisTech

The award ceremony for the 2012 Dufrénoy Prize for Responsible Innovation will take place at Mines ParisTech on Monday, 18 June, 6:30pm. The event will stand as an outstanding milestone in the public discussion of responsible innovation in finance carried … Continue reading

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Video channel: the debates of the November 2011 conference

Video excerpts of the Conference on “Debating Responsible Innovation in Finance” held at Mines ParisTech on November 30th, 2011, are now available in the website of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation and in the Observatory’s Dailymotion video channel. For a … Continue reading

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Financial innovation: a reform of New Product Commitees

The Observatory’s policy paper on how to improve responsibility in financial innovation through a reconsideration of New Product Committees is now published in JFRC: “Towards a practical approach to responsible innovation in finance: New Product Committees revisited”, Journal of Financial … Continue reading

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Dufrénoy Prize awarded to the Reserve Bank of India

Mines ParisTech and the Observatory for Responsible Innovation have the pleasure and privilege to announce the award of the 2012 Dufrénoy Prize for Responsible Innovation, a distinction aiming at signaling remarkable initiatives for the development of a culture of responsibility … Continue reading

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Contribution de Pascal Canfin au débat public

Le débat sur l’innovation responsable en finance organisé par l’Observatoire pour l’innovation responsable le 30 novembre 2011 est mentionné dans le dernier ouvrage de Pascal Canfin, Ce que les banques vous disent et pourquoi il ne faut presque jamais les … Continue reading

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A special report on financial innovation from The Economist

Andrew Palmer‘s February 25th 2012 special report on financial innovation for The Economist provides a deeply relevant and accurately researched investigation on the kinds of problems that have been at the center of the discussions and initiatives of the Observatory … Continue reading

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Dufrénoy Prize for Responsible Innovation in Finance

In connection to its recent activities on responsible innovation in the area of finance, the Observatory for Responsible Innovation is preparing the 2012 edition of the Dufrénoy Prize. An open call for nominations and more details about the prize are … Continue reading

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Viewpoints on the debates on responsible innovation in finance

Participants to the November 30 2011 conference on “Debating Responsible Innovation in Finance” signaled a number of hot issues in contemporary financial innovation: from the potential perils of new, complex financial products to the consequences of high-frequency trading, from the role … Continue reading

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Charles Ferguson on Inside Job

The last issue of Debating Innovation, the journal of the Observatory for Responsible Innovation, is now out and available here. In the piece titled “After Inside Job: consequences, problems and perspectives”, Charles Ferguson, the director of Inside Job (2010, Sony … Continue reading

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