EP 29 - Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin - Clinical Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Chicago - Alternative Banking Systems

The Wolfcast was interested to speak with Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Some of the topics that Özgür covered:

• Growing up in Turkey and studying Economics and Finance
• Relating economic theories to real life and looking for non-obvious contradictions
• Islamic Finance and how Islamic banks make money
• Risk sharing and trying to eliminate moral hazards
• The passion for teaching undergraduate students Finance
• The importance and difficulty of curating the overwhelming amount of information we receive
• Gold, cryptocurrency, and regulations

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. Teaching Finance Is Very Rewarding, It’s So Dynamic and Applicable
2. If I Get a Gain, I Should Provide a Gain as Well
3. This Generation Is So Open to Alternatives
4. Their Lives Are Changing in a Very Fast Pace
5. Two Sides Have to Be Fair