Author: Ohad Samet File Type: pdf If youve been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach.Youll learn the answers to questions youre likely to encounter in the first 18 months of operation, with information that Samet has shaped and tested over several years in the industry. This book is ideal whether you intend to be a one-person task force or work with dozens of agents and analysts.ullUse both a portfolio and behavioral approach to analyzing and optimizing lossesllLearn about your customers to determine if they can and will meet obligationsllBuild an RMP team for payment risk operations, analytics, and decision automationllUse linking mechanisms and velocity models to detect unusual activity among your customersllDesign system and data architecture to facilitate your activity analysisllImplement the decision and loss-reduction mechanisms you need to act on your findingslul**

Author: Herman Cappelen File Type: pdf This volume brings together two series of papers one began with Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepores 1997 paper On an Alleged Connection Between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech. The other series started with their 1997 paper Varieties of Quotation. The central theme throughout is that only when communicative content is liberated from semantic content will we make progress in understanding language, communication, contexts, and their interconnection. These are the papers in which Cappelen and Lepore introduced speech act pluralism and semantic minimalism, and they provide the foundation for one of the most powerful attacks on contextualism in contemporary philosophy.

Author: Christian Smith File Type: pdf What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientists quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society. Finding much current thinking on personhood to be confusing or misleading, Smith finds inspiration in critical realism and personalism. Drawing on these ideas, he constructs a theory of personhood that forges a middle path between the extremes of positivist science and relativism. Smith then builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and William Sewell to demonstrate the importance of personhood to our understanding of social structures. From there he broadens his scope to consider how we can know what is good in personal and social life and what sociology can tell us about human rights and dignity. Innovative, critical, and constructive, What Is a Person? offers an inspiring vision of a social science committed to pursuing causal explanations, interpretive understanding, and general knowledge in the service of truth and the moral good. **

Author: Maria De La Fuente Vazquez, File Type: pdf Universistat Autonoma de Barcelona