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Financial Derivatives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/af3070
Module code: AF3070 Financial derivative are financial contracts between two parties that obtains its value from underlying assets, interest rates or security to allow the individual parties to predict their future cash flow.
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UK fashion manufacturing survey reveals experience of unfair purchasing practices
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/uk-fashion-manufacturing-survey-unfair-purchasing-practices
Results from a survey of UK clothing manufacturers, analysed by academics from the University of Leicester, University of Nottingham and independent trade justice charity Transform Trade, have revealed unfair purchasing practices by brands and retailers are commonplace within...
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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PhD student receives prestigious research grant
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant
A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.
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Sunday 3rd September Sol 27
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/09/03/sunday-3rd-september-sol-27/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 3, 2012 We have had our first day off, done by planning two sols at once. In the meantime we discuss the results so far and enjoy some of the NavCam images from Sol 26.
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Space Telescopes and Lobsters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/11/19/space-telescopes-and-lobsters/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 19 November 2021 Want to know how lobsters and space telescopes are connected? Our Prof. Paul O’Brien, Dr Adrian Martindale and Dr Steve Sembay explain. Listen to this clip from the BBC World Service .
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Writing the Magic of the Criminal Corpse. By Owen Davies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/02/writing-the-magic-of-the-criminal-corpse-by-owen-davies/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 2, 2015 It is that time in a major research project when the final outputs are being worked on.
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Investors and Investees Behaviours
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/investors-and-investees-behaviours
Financial innovation has opened financial markets to unprecedented numbers of retail investors with no or limited knowledge and experience of actively participating in financial markets.
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Big Sleep raises over 9000 for The BridgeHomelessness to Hope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/big-sleep-raises-over-ps9000-for-the-bridge-homelessness-to-hope
Over £9,000 has been raised by the volunteers who took part in the University of Leicester’s ‘Big Sleep’ on Tuesday 20 March.
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Interstellar insights to put businesses light-years ahead
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/interstellar-insights-to-put-businesses-light-years-ahead
Space technology expertise is easier to access than ever before – that’s the message from Leicester’s crew of scientists and business experts, as they prepare to make a giant leap to Hong Kong for the GREAT Festival of Innovation on 24 March.