Charles Austin Stone, PhD, and Anne Zissu, PhD, are the founding editors of The Financier (www.the-financier.com), The Securitization Conduit (www.asset-backed.com), and The Arbitrageur, publications providing commentary on corporate finance, risk management, securitization,
and related topics. Stone is a visiting professor at Université Paris Dauphine, where he teaches a course on securitization. Zissu is
a professor of finance at Temple University in Philadelphia. They have edited several books on finance, and their research has appeared
in leading academic journals including the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Financial Markets,
Institutions and Instruments. They share their time between residences in Philadelphia and Paris.