Assessing the Impact of Tokenized Financial Assets on Blockchain for Start-Up Fundraising and the Significance of Decentralized Governance

This research investigates the potential impact of blockchain based start-up crowdfunding. The emergence of blockchain and cryptocurrencies paved the way for a more decentralized finance system which offers alternative funding opportunities for start-ups. The scope of the research is to analyze the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain based...

Exploring the feasibility of placing a wind turbine on top of an FPSO

Changing the way of power production on a Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO)<br/>system by using renewable power can contribute to reducing an FPSO’s carbon footprint while operating. Bluewater Energy Services is interested in the use of a wind turbine placed on top of an<br/>FPSO, to power the FPSO’s internal electricity grid....

Proxying Bond Credit Spreads with Machine Learning

The bond market is affected by the shortage of liquidity problem, which means that many bonds are not frequently traded. This implies that market data for these bonds are missing. This lack of data represent a problem for financial risk measures such as Value at Risk (VaR). This research provides the framework for the construction of a proxy...

Doing money better: Supporting young adults in sustainable financial decision-making

Money is a key element in people’s overall well-being (Abey &amp; Ford, 2008). Young adults are behaving very differently towards finances compared to previous generations (Williams et al, 2010). In addition, young adults have little trust on financial institutions and no one to turn to for actionable advice (Deloitte Millennial Survey, 2019)....

Mynance: Modernise the financial function of your organisation

INNOPAY is an Amsterdam bases consultancy that focusses on ‘transactions. They are founded in 2002 with financial transactions as their main focus. Today, they have shifted their core business to ‘data’ as every form of transaction. INNOPAY is led by the belief “everything transaction” which is translated in into an award-winning same-titled...

Trust For Artificial Intelligence: The trust-building journey in automatic bookkeeping

Artificial intelligence (AI) has come to the fore and is now expected to be one of the most disruptive technologies. It is easy to tell that AI will become pervasive in our everyday life. However, people still lack confidence in AI. Since trust is crucial in the development and acceptance of AI, it is essential to design for proper trust in the...

The Dynamical Behaviour and Control of an Enterprise: Firm and Consumer as the System, Management as the Controller

This thesis develops a method to forecast the cash flows that determine the value of an enterprise. From a control engineers perspective, three stages arise to develop such a method: the research, the system and the control part. The research part presents the results of a control theoretic analysis of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) valuation...

Analysis of the impact of news on the financial market

In this work we set out to determine the impact, if any, of the analysis of news on stock price prediction, that is, are we able to predict stock movements more accurately on a consistent basis than a proposed baseline or random guessing on the basis of news’ text analysis. We considered a methodology to be more accurate if its success rate is...

The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement

Today’s land grabs are a continuation of past imperialist desires, with a clear distinction that today’s capitalist domination is associated with the transnationalisation of the class structure and ignores the ethnicity and civility narratives of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This investigation will establish that the desire of the...

Customer Verification Engine: Automated Customer Verification for a Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform

There is a lot involved in providing a loan as a company, mostly in terms of legalities and risk management. As a lender it is important to have a clear record of the customers applying for a loan, as this helps assessing the risk that comes with providing a loan. Furthermore, it is required by law to know who it is that you are providing a loan...

Compound Options: Numerical valuation methods and a real option application

In this thesis, several compound options and a real option application will be valued. First, an introduction to real options and our application will be given and bridges between financial and real options will be established. Then, an asset price model will be introduced which will be used throughout the whole thesis to value options, and...

City Branding: An empirical study into City branding based on infrastructure, landscape and spatial/planning in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Singapore and Doha: Branding upcoming cities in the Middle and Far East

Within the field of construction management &amp; engineering are upcoming cities investigated on how they achieved economic development and how they increased the quality of life by using the phenomena of city branding as development tool. By doing so (city branding), cities hope to get a better position on the global market to attract...

Tail Risk in Cryptocurrencies

In this research, the returns of four cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple and Ethereum) were analyzed in order to answer the following research question: “How do the returns of Bitcoin and other altcoins behave over time, and what can we say about extreme values for losses and profits?” With respect to volatility, cryptocurrencies can...

Enhancing retention for Otly!: A design strategy for Otly! that proposes strategic choices to improve their customer retention rate

Otly! is an Amsterdam based startup that aims to remove difficulties around digital money for children. The company aims to accomplish this by providing a safe financial ecosystem for children as well as their parents. With a pocket money app for both parents and children, Otly strives to introduce the first banking experience for kids. <br/><br...

the space inbetween: project of an institution of protection in Luxembourg City

The project deals with the material culture of the financial sector of Luxembourg City with an alternative architectural formulation

The Creditor and The Debtor

The project represents the twofold condition present in the system of finance, the creditor and the debtor. The creditor and the debtor are two sides to the same medal; one cannot exist without the other. The different manifestations of the system of finance are a reflection of the different relations between the creditor and the debtor. The...

One City Nine 'Ghost' Towns? -Seeking an alternative growth model to vitalize the Lingang New Harbor City in Shanghai

Problem definition -Most of the new built neighborhoods in Lingang area are empty or unvital, and a problematic urban pattern dominanted in building this kind of new towns. Design Goals -Improving the current growth model of building Lingang New Harbour City to resist speculative growth, improve the urban environment and vitalize the new towns....