Dr John Sebastian Pereira
Senior Lecturer in Finance
Contact
- Email: j.pereira@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston Hill
- Faculty: Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- School: Kingston Business School
- Department: Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics
About
I am a Senior Lecturer at Kingston Business School, I lecture on a range of Accounting and Finance modules across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and specialize in delivering workshops and seminars aimed at leveraging the power of Bloomberg software for advanced financial analysis. I am also the Bloomberg academic leader in-charge of development, training and delivery of Bloomberg programmes at Kingston.
My principal research interests are in the areas of corporate credit risk modelling, bank risk and corporate disclosure. I have been awarded the 'Lecturer of the Year - 2017' and 'Best use of Technology to aid Learning and Teaching award - 2017'
I have experience of being an External Examiner and External panel member for Accounting & Finance courses and have represented the Lecturer constituency at the University Senate Committee. I am also a member of the Faculty Research and Consultancy activity Committee (FRCC) at Kingston University.
Areas of specialism
- Corporate credit risk modelling
- Supervisory sanctions and bank risk
- Integrated reporting and bank lending
Qualifications
- 2011 - 2015: PhD Banking and Finance, Kingston University
- 2012 - 2013: Associate Fellow in Higher Education, HEA
- 2017: PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management
- 2011 - 2012: MSc Management and Business Research, Kingston University
- 2009 - 2010: MSc Banking and Finance, Kingston University
- 2007 - 2009: PGDBA Business Administration, NMIMS University
Industry links
- Volvo Group: Finance trainer - Involved in designing and delivery of workshop for HR management development programme for middle managers.
- Financial Times: Consultancy and training - To help journalist leverage the use of Bloomberg terminal to obtain supporting evidence for publication.
Professional membership
- Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS).
- British Academy of Management (BAM).
Research
- Measuring and modelling corporate credit risk dynamics using credit default swap instruments.
- Islamic banking and conventional banking: differences and similarities.
- The effect of supervisory enforcement actions in the banking sector.
- Corporate reporting and disclosure practices in financial and non-financial institutions.
- The drivers and benefits of Integrated reporting.
Publications
Number of items: 8.
Article
Pereira, John, Sorwar, Ghulam and Nurullah, Mohamed (2018) What drives corporate CDS spreads? A comparison across US, UK and EU firms. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, ISSN (print) 1042-4431 (Epub Ahead of Print)
Malafronte, Irma, Starita, Maria Grazia and Pereira, John (2018) The effectiveness of risk disclosure practices in the European insurance industry. Review of Accounting and Finance, 17(1), pp. 130-147. ISSN (print) 1475-7702
Sorwar, Ghulam, Pappas, Vasileios, Pereira, John and Nurullah, Mohamed (2016) To debt or not to debt : are Islamic banks less risky than conventional banks? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 132(Suppl), pp. 113-126. ISSN (print) 0167-2681
Conference or Workshop Item
Malafronte, Irma, Nurullah, Mohamed, Pereira, John and Sorwar, Ghulam (2016) Enforcement actions, market movement and depositors’ reaction: evidence from the US banking system. In: 6th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society: Banking, Finance and Institutions: Stability and Risk; 10-12 Jun 2016, Malaga, Spain. (Unpublished)
Malafronte, Irma, Pereira, John, Starita, Maria Grazie and Busco, Cristiano (2016) Integrated reporting and thinking: an empirical analysis of STOXX Europe 600 firms. In: Integrated Thinking & Reporting in Practice; 17-18 Nov 2016, Rome, Italy. (Unpublished)
Pereira, John, Nurullah, Mohamed and Sorwar, Ghulam (2015) Effect of policy announcements on US and UK corporate CDS returns during the financial crisis. In: Behavioural Finance Working Group Conference: Financial Regulation; 11-12 Jun 2015, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Pereira, John, Nurullah, Mohamed and Sorwar, Ghulam (2014) What drives corporate CDS spreads? A comparison across US, UK and Eurozone markets. In: European Financial Management Association (EFMA) 23rd Annual Meeting; 25-28 Jun 2014, Rome, Italy.
Thesis
Pereira, John (2015) An empirical investigation of corporate credit default swap spreads and returns. (PhD thesis), Kingston University.
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