Kimmo Soramäki
Co-Host of FNA Broadcasts
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of FNA and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997; he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems.
In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2009, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modelling interconnections and systemic risk.
This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
Kimmo Soramäki has hosted five Episodes.
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CBDC Broadcast #26 - Modernizing Financial Markets with wCBDC – A Closer Look at the WEF Report
May 21st, 2024 | 58 mins 42 secs
Guests Cameron Nili (Accenture, World Economic Forum) and Sandra Waliczek (World Economic Forum) offer an insight into their newly published report, ‘Modernizing Financial Markets with wCBDC‘ as we took a closer look at the key concepts explored in the report.
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Payment Systems Broadcast #15 - Safeguarding Digital Finance
March 27th, 2024 | 55 mins 1 sec
Ivan Mortimer-Schutts (SIMBAS) and David Rennie (IDEMIA) explore the regulatory frameworks, emerging technologies, and best practices that harmonize fraud/scam prevention with robust anti-money laundering controls.
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CBDC Broadcast #1 - Quantifying the Impact of CBDCs
January 11th, 2022 | 48 mins 36 secs
cbdcs, central banks, fna broadcasts, simulation
Dr Kimmo Soramäki and Dr Carlos León joined host Will Towning to explain how central banks, commercial banks and other organisations can use simulation technology to understand the impacts of introducing a CBDC? The presentations covered:
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Intraday Liquidity Stress Testing - Techniques & Challenges
May 27th, 2021 | 29 mins 34 secs
banking, intraday liquidity, stress testing
Carlos León at Banco de la República and Gilberto Chavez-Velazquez at Deutsche Bank join FNA's Mohesen Namazi and Kimmo Soramäki to cover intraday liquidity and stress testing techniques in banking.
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Financial Cartography in RegTech & SupTech during COVID-19 & Beyond
May 5th, 2020 | 23 mins
data analytics, dataanalytics, financial maps, fintech, innovation, network science, podcast, regtech, risk analysis, riskanalysis, suptech
In the first episode of the FNA Talk series we focus on the RegTech & SupTech applications of financial cartography;