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Clarus Financial Technology
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Clarus Financial Technology is the company blog at clarusft.com, writing about economics and business. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this site's posts on floating-point number printing (Dragon4, Grisu3) and on financial benchmark rates such as LIBOR and Euribor. Comments cite them as technical references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Good question. I suspect this was because when the rate was defined in the 1980s, collecting that data would have been difficult. After the LIBOR scandal, the EU brought the benchmarks regulation (BMR) which says that interest rate indexes have to be based on actual transactions, just as you say. Euribor, the equivalent of LIBOR for lending in euros, was reformed to be based on transactions: https://www.emmi-benchma…
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on “Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52”Submitted CDS Volumes now $6.6Trn higher than last year as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGreat links, thanks. I sometimes noodle with a faster printf for Java, mostly for giggles. I also found these: Dragon4 and Grisu3: Algoritms to Display Floating Point Numbers https://www.clarusft.com/dragon4-and-grisu3-algorithms-to-di... "Printing Floating-Point Numbers Quickly and Accurately with Integers" by Florian Loitsch http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/florian-loitsch/pr... And its implementation in…
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on “Printing Floating-Point Numbers (2014)”Submitted Are Inflation Expectations Becoming Entrenched? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A First Look at Total Return Swaps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rub Derivatives Are Still Trading as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted IR Futures Volume as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much of the Derivatives Market Is Now Cleared? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOFR Swaptions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Credit Index Options as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ISDA SIMM v25a the first off-cycle release as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s New in Term SOFR? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Active Names in Credit and Equity Derivatives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kwasi Kwarteng Has Increased Your Initial Margin as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Most Actives in CDs Trading as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Latest Data Shows SOFR Trading Soaring as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sbsdr – A Look at Equity Total Return Swaps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Swaption Volumes by Strike Q1 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted FTX’s Direct Clearing Model Application to the CFTC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rub NDF Trading Continues as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BSBY and Term SOFR Swap Volumes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What did January teach us about RFR trading? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 2021 CCP Volumes and Market Share in IRD as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The $7T Increase in New RFR Positions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Did the Latest USD Move Result in Blood on the Street? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mechanics and Definitions of RFR Cross Currency Swaps as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOFR risk now accounts for 30% of USD Rates markets as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clearing mandates and new trading obligations as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is the Outlook for Trading Volumes from Here? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CCP Disclosures – Skin in the Game and Other Metrics as a story · 1 points
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