computational-finance

Required math for Computational Finance?

I don't have a strong mathematical background, but I would love to work on some computational finance problems. I got "An Introduction to Computational Finance Without Agonizing Pain " by Peter Forsyth, but it still was pretty hard for me to follow what he was saying. What are the required maths prerequisites for this course? I want to...

How to design a programming language adapted to financial instruments ?

I work for a boutique specialized in finance. We thought about designing a language to describe financial entities related to financial markets. This would be mainly used as some kind of scripting language to replace many process run in spreadsheets and VBA macros. It has to be simple and it has, in fact, to call various C++ and C# li...

Is there a standard database format for financial information of a company ?

Is there any standard formats with which the companies / stock exchanges use to communicate financial data ? I have come across csv format but that is a bit different . Editing for more clarification : I am looking at information like Balance Sheet , Income Cash Flow , these datas are submitted to Securities Board using some format like...