ISDA Publishes Consultation On Benchmark Fallbacks
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) has launched a market-wide consultation on technical issues related to new benchmark fallbacks for derivatives contracts that reference...
View ArticleTether Hires Former Bank Analyst as Chief Compliance Officer
Tether, the company behind the dollar-tied USDT, has hired a chief compliance officer from the eighth-largest bank in North America.
View ArticleKorean Government-Backed Researchers File for Blockchain Patent
A South Korean government-funded organization has submitted a blockchain-related patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
View ArticleLawmakers to Discuss If Crypto Is 'The Future of Money' Next Week
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will host a crypto hearing focused on its use as a form of money next week.
View ArticleNew Power Rates Approved for Crypto Miners in Upstate New York
A municipal utility provider in New York got the green light from state regulators to create a new set of electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners.
View ArticleTesting of Binary Regime Switching Models using Squeeze Duration Analysis....
We have developed a statistical technique to test the model assumption of binary regime switching extension of the geometric Brownian motion (GBM) model by proposing a new discriminating statistics....
View ArticlePricing without martingale measure. (arXiv:1807.04612v1 [q-fin.MF])
For several decades, the no-arbitrage (NA) condition and the martingale measures have played a major role in the financial asset's pricing theory. Here, we propose a new approach based on convex...
View ArticleBitcoin Price Defends $6K As Upside Potential Builds
A charting pattern suggests the bitcoin price might be able to successfully defend $6,000, despite a tug-of-wars between bulls and bears of late.
View ArticlePolice Seize $1.5 Million in Crypto During FIFA Gambling Crackdown
A Chinese city has recently cracked a cryptocurrency-traded gambling case and confiscated over $1.5 million worth of cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleWhy Litecoin's Creator Is Buying Into A Bank (And How It Could Go Wrong)
If all goes according to plan, TokenPay and Charlie Lee's Litecoin Foundation will transform a tiny German bank into crypto's smoothest on-ramp.
View ArticleFINRA Handles Record Volume Of Market Activity Through First Six Months Of...
FINRA processed an unprecedented amount of market activity through the first six months of 2018, averaging a record 57.9 billion electronic records per day during the period — a 62-percent increase...
View ArticleHong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Amends Takeovers Rules
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today released consultation conclusions (Note 1) on proposed amendments to the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy-backs (Codes). The amended...
View ArticleNew Zealand's Financial Markets Authority: CBL Investigation Update
The FMA investigation into the conduct of CBL Corporation Limited (“CBL”) and its directors is ongoing. Due to investor interest in these matters an update on the investigation is appropriate at this...
View ArticleHong Kong's Securities And Futures Commission Standardises Rules For...
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announces that amendments to the Securities and Futures (Professional Investor) Rules (PI Rules) have come into operation today (Note 1).read more...
View ArticleOKCoin Exchange Launches in US With Fiat-to-Crypto Trading
Crypto exchange OKCoin has launched a branch in the U.S. market to offer trading services between U.S. dollars and several major cryptocurrencies.Â
View ArticleESMA Consults On Tick Size Regime
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Consultation Paper (CP) proposing amendments to the tick size regime (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/588 (RTS 11)). The...
View ArticleBureau Veritas Verifies Landmark First Certified Green Bond For Solar Energy...
Leading Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) provider, Bureau Veritas has verified the very first Certified Green Bond for solar energy in Brazil. The bond has been issued by distributed solar...
View ArticleRobinhood's Plan to Win the Crypto Exchange War? Kill Trading Fees
CEO of Robinhood Markets, Vlad Tenev, explains why he thinks fee-based cryptocurrency trading will soon become a relic of the past.
View ArticleRussians Indicted for US Election Hacks Used Bitcoin to Fund Operations
Twelve Russian officials indicted for hacking into Democratic National Committee email accounts allegedly used cryptocurrencies, the DOJ announced.
View ArticleSweden's Finansinspektionen Open To Raising The Countercyclical Buffer Rate...
The next occasion on which FI will decide on the countercyclical buffer rate is in September. FI's Director General has decided that the preparatory work for the decision shall focus on enabling an...
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