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17 January 2023
The Zero Trust Concept

Peter Roßbach

Organisations need a framework that allows easy access to all resources without slowing down productivity. In addition, the systems and the access to the systems need to be protected, taking into account the given circumstances. Zero Trust is a modern security model based on the design principle "Never trust, always verify".
12 December 2022
Geopolitics for Organizations – tools to navigate a challenging world
Elter Nehemias Santos Barbosa
Strategy and risk management are central to the role of a board of directors. They must take into account the changing nature of risks in order to adjust the adopted strategy. Risks of a political nature are one of several that need to be monitored.
Climate change has taken a prominent role in daily conversations among friends, colleagues and strangers – and so has climate anxiety. However, on a personal level, having the opportunity to work on these issues every day helps me to keep this anxiety away. It allows me to “put a face” to a sometimes very abstract and complex problem and to witness concrete results.
4 November 2022
Rediscovering our relationship with Nature – beyond profit and optimisation
María José Valverde
28 October 2022
Do banks reward SMEs‘ good ESG performance with lower interest rates?
Paul Glang
SMEs are increasingly expected to report their ESG performance. But do banks reward good ESG performance with a lower interest rate? The short answer is “no, not really”. But bad performance might be punished in the future. The question of how sustainability affects the relationship between companies and their bank and their financing costs is currently of high relevance.
In almost ten years of working with climate finance in different European countries, it has become commonplace to experience what I call “quiet disregard” when the word “gender” echoes in the room. That consists of men nodding positively to agree silently with the topic’s relevance, followed by some subtle-to-abrupt effort to move on to something actually important.
10 October 2022
Climate change and the importance of gender
Luis Zamarioli
31 March 2022
Navigating the biodiversity crisis: notes for the financial sector

Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares

You have probably heard about biodiversity loss as a new and urgent problem we need to address. News about extinct rhinos and endangered bees have made headlines recently, and perhaps they have even hit too close to home for you. However, do you feel personally threatened by these stories? More importantly, do you feel somehow responsible for these issues?
7 December 2021
Can a set of minimum ESG reporting standards solve the ESG reporting dilemma?

Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana

The integrity and verifiability of ESG data, the numerous disclosure frameworks, and the subjective nature of the ESG ratings may spark doubt among stakeholders which could limit integrating sustainability risks and opportunities into investment analyses. Until we have a mandatory and uniform framework with a minimum set of standards, ESG will remain only a buzzword.
5 October 2022
Insights from the IPCC Report on Climate Change Mitigation
Michael König
In the last three years, I was fully involved in the role as Chapter Scientist and collaborated with a team of climate finance experts from 21 countries in assessing evidence on the relation between finance and climate change. For this opportunity, I am grateful for the German IPCC focal point and their outstanding support.
A convertible note is a hybrid financial instrument for raising funds in the very early stages of a startup, typically when valuation is not set. It acts as a debt instrument until an agreed maturity period, after which it can be converted to equity. The funds raised by this method would help the startup to get the ball rolling by developing its product and acquiring the early adopters.
26 July 2022
What is a convertible note and how does it work?
Ram Shoham
28 April 2022
Are SMEs ready for ESG Reporting? Opportunities and Challenges
Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana
ESG reporting is complex and expensive. Investors could eliminate SMEs that do not disclose ESG information from asset allocation, depriving them of the crucial finances necessary for their survival. But how receptive are SMEs to ESG reporting?
What can I know? What does it mean to know anything at all? Or more radically, could it be that I am just dreaming or trapped in ‘the Matrix’? Traditionally, philosophical epistemology has dealt with questions such as these primarily from the perspective of the individual. Social epistemology, in turn, puts the ‘social’ into knowing.
5 April 2022
Studying the Spread of Knowledge: Social Epistemology and Computational Modelling
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
9 July 2021
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay

Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner

Numerous cryptocurrencies have emerged in recent years, and hundreds of start-ups and companies around the world have launched corresponding projects. All of this suggests that technologies are emerging here that will change the financial system in particular.
17 June 2021
New opportunities for Central Banks with Financial Big Data

Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana

The use of big data in central banks is growing; a 2020 survey found about 80% of central banks used big data as compared to 30% in 2015, and about 40% of them utilised it to inform policy. Overall, central banks are yet to widely adopt big data due to infrastructure, skills, and cost challenges.
19 January 2022
AI Pontryagin or how neural networks learn to control complex systems
Lucas Böttcher
Optimal control of complex dynamical systems can be challenging due to cost constraints and analytical intractability. In our work, we propose a machine-learning-based control framework able to learn quasi-optimal control signals and steer complex high-dimensional dynamical systems towards a desired target state.
My choice to visit Frankfurt School was affirmed by their structured coursework programme that provides students with methodological skills as well as with an in-depth knowledge of economics, finance, and accounting. My time here is helping me expand my research network as well as significantly improve my dissertation projects.
7 December 2021
How my PhD visit strengthened my research network
Jonas Wessel
The Zero Trust Concept
17 January 2023
Peter Roßbach
Geopolitics for Organizations – tools to navigate a challenging world
12 December 2022
Elter Nehemias Santos Barbosa
Rediscovering our relationship with Nature – beyond profit and optimisation
4 November 2022
María José Valverde
Navigating the biodiversity crisis: notes for the financial sector
31 March 2022
Elizabeth Tamayo Tabares
Do banks reward SMEs‘ good ESG performance with lower interest rates?
28 October 2022
Paul Glang
Climate change and the importance of gender
10 October 2022
Luis Zamarioli
Can a set of minimum ESG reporting standards solve the ESG reporting dilemma?
7 December 2021
Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana
Insights from the IPCC Report on Climate Change Mitigation
5 October 2022
Michael König
What is a convertible note and how does it work?
26 July 2022
Ram Shoham
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay
9 July 2021
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner
Are SMEs ready for ESG Reporting? Opportunities and Challenges
28 April 2022
Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana
Studying the Spread of Knowledge: Social Epistemology and Computational Modelling
5 April 2022
Prof. Dr. Rainer Hegselmann
New opportunities for Central Banks with Financial Big Data
17 June 2021
Alexandra B. Kinywamaghana
AI Pontryagin or how neural networks learn to control complex systems
19 January 2022
Lucas Böttcher
How my PhD visit strengthened my research network
7 December 2021
Jonas Wessel