Published research, working papers, and essays on financial regulation, systemic risk, and capital markets in emerging economies.
Fixed Income Market Development in CEMAC: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Architecture and Capital Market Depth against UEMOA →
Comparative analysis of CEMAC and UEMOA fixed-income markets, examining regulatory architecture, market depth, and the institutional structures shaping regional bond-market development.
SSRNSeptember 2026Fixed IncomeCEMACCapital Markets
Furnisher, not Excluded: Mapping the Scope Gap Between CEMAC's Credit Information-sharing Mandate and Mobile Money Data →
Analysis of BIC-CEMAC's exclusion of mobile money operators as data furnishers under BEAC Instructions 014/2020 and 010/2020.
SSRNAugust 2026Academic
Alternative Data and Credit Risk Assessment in Emerging African Economies →
A quantitative and regulatory framework for using alternative data in credit scoring across African markets.
SSRNMay 2026Academic
Liquidity as Control: Why the Coffee Paradigm Has Reversed →
A 28‑page paper exploring how liquidity has shifted from a passive measure to an active tool of control.
SSRNJuly 2026Academic
The 2026 State of Alternative Credit Scoring in Sub-Saharan Africa →
Policy brief on the current state and dynamics around alternative credit scoring in Africa with references from around the world.
Academia.eduJuly 2026Finance
The Topography of Silence →
Essay on the architecture of quiet in a world of relentless signal. Explores Cioran, Kafka, and the jurisprudence of pause.
SubstackPhilosophy
The Tyranny of the Ledger →
How double-entry bookkeeping reshaped human morality, from Pacioli to blockchain.
SubstackEconomics
The Ethics of Algorithmic Determinism →
When an algorithm executes a trade based on deterministic rules, the coder becomes the unspoken legislator.
EssayTechnology & Ethics
Algorithmic Trading: A Regulatory Void in OHADA Law →
Analysis of the regulatory gap in African securities law regarding autonomous trading systems.
AcademicSecurities Law
Modeling Inflation Volatility in the CEMAC Zone →
Application of GARCH-family models to inflation dynamics in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community.
DissertationEconometrics
The Illusion of Choice in Abstract Systems →
How financial interfaces and legal frameworks constrain agency. The efficient frontier as a curated menu.
EssaySystems Theory
On the Nature of Abstract Capital →
Capital as mathematical abstraction untethered from physical production. Derivatives as meta-referential instruments.
EssayEconomic Philosophy
Phenomenology of the Digital Interface →
The screen as membrane. How financial applications anesthetize users to the reality of capital destruction.
EssayDigital Ontology
Morality in the Age of High-Frequency Thought →
Ethics require friction. When markets move at light speed and regulation at paper speed, moral deliberation becomes the bottleneck.
EssayEthics & Speed
Corporate Governance in Decentralized Finance →
DAOs and the challenge to centralized boards. Proposes a 'Limited Liability DAO' legal classification.
AcademicCorporate Law
The Liability of Autonomous Financial Agents →
Who is liable when a deep RL agent spoofs a market? Rejects electronic personhood, advocates vicarious liability.
AcademicCorporate Liability
Stochastic Calculus in High-Frequency Markets: Legal Precedents →
When models fail symmetrically across institutions, is it negligence or an Act of God?
AcademicQuant Finance
Revisiting Fiduciary Duty for Quantitative Analysts →
The quant engineer writing C++ wields more power than a portfolio manager. Extending fiduciary duty down the technical hierarchy.
AcademicProfessional Ethics
Silicon and Silence →
Prose-poem on the compiler's indifference. The machine calculates risk without moral weight.
VerseTechnology
The Architecture of the Void →
Prose-poem. The empty ledger, the uncompiled code, the silence before the gavel.
VerseMetaphysics
The Market of Hours →
Prose-poem on time as the only true currency. We liquidate our lives to fund our own survival.
VerseEconomics
Echoes in the Agora →
The public square has migrated to the network. Algorithms as arbiters of discourse.
VerseHuman Condition
The Boundaries of Knowing →
Epistemology of quantitative models. The map is static but the territory of human behavior is fluid.
VerseEpistemology