ESMA Defines Standards For The Implementation Of The Securitisation Regulation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a first set of technical standards under the Securitisation Regulation (SR) containing both draft regulatory and implementing...
View ArticleSIFMA To Offer Municipal MAAU Signature Page Storage Service
SIFMA’s Municipal Securities Division announced today it will implement a new structure for its Master Agreement Among Underwriters (MAAU) for negotiated offerings of municipal securities by offering a...
View ArticleDTCC Named To The Forbes Best Employers List
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has been recognized as one of “America’s Best Mid-Size...
View ArticleNew York State Department Of Financial Services Grants Virtual Currency...
Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo today announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has approved the application of BitPay, Inc. for a virtual currency...
View ArticleBitcoin's Road Back to $7K (And the Chart Hurdles In the Way)
Bitcoin is inching its way closer to the $7000 dollar range, but there are key technical hurdles in its way to greener pastures.
View ArticleBlock.one Closes Strategic Investment Round Led By Peter Thiel And Bitmain
Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain protocol, a high performance blockchain platform for decentralized applications, announced today that world-renowned venture capitalist and entrepreneur...
View ArticleCFTC Issues Customer Advisory On Digital Tokens - New Guidance Alerts...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a Customer Advisory warning customers to use caution and do extensive research before purchasing virtual coins or tokens, including those...
View ArticleThe Kodak KashMiner's Flashy Debut Ends In Failure
The much-publicized partnership that would have resulted in digital media brand Kodak's name appearing on a series of bitcoin miners is no more.
View ArticleCongress Is Now Holding Two Crypto Hearings This Wednesday
Congress is set to hold not one but two separate hearings related to cryptocurrencies on Wednesday.
View ArticleCFTC Says Buyer Beware in New ICO Advisory
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a warning on initial coin offerings (ICOs) and crypto-assets.
View ArticleMean-Variance Efficiency of Optimal Power and Logarithmic Utility Portfolios....
We derive new results related to the portfolio choice problem for power and logarithmic utilities. Assuming that the portfolio returns follow a log-normal distribution, the closed-form expressions of...
View ArticleAsset Price Bubbles: An Option-based Indicator. (arXiv:1805.07403v2...
We construct a statistical indicator for the detection of short-term asset price bubbles based on the information content of bid and ask market quotes for plain vanilla put and call options. Our...
View ArticleImproving Value-at-Risk prediction under model uncertainty....
Several well-established benchmark predictors exist for Value-at-Risk (VaR), a major instrument for financial risk management. Hybrid methods combining AR-GARCH filtering with skewed-$t$ residuals and...
View ArticleArbitrage-free pricing of American options in nonlinear markets....
We re-examine and extend the findings from the recent paper by Dumitrescu, Quenez and Sulem (2018) who studied American and game options in a particular market model using the nonlinear arbitrage-free...
View ArticleWorld's First Bank-Backed Crypto Exchange Finally Opens to the Public
VCTRADE, the new crypto exchange built by financial giant SBI Holdings, is finally open to all Japanese residents after months of delays.
View ArticlePersonal Pensions - BETTER FINANCE Releases Research Findings On Life Cycle...
BETTER FINANCE welcomes the recent opinions of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) and the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) on the proposed “PEPP”[1] EU...
View ArticleLME To Increase User Choice And Participation Through Introduction Of Implied...
The London Metal Exchange (LME) today announces the introduction of implied pricing for base metals on its electronic trading platform, LMEselect, as part of its Strategic Pathway commitment to deliver...
View ArticleDaily: Bulls run after 6.3 Trillion fund makes "Blockchain...
The world's largest asset fund Blackrock reveals that they have a special task force dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Does what does this mean. Coinbase also acquires the pieces necessary to make it...
View ArticleBank Of Asia To Become The First Client Of NSD’s SWIFT Bureau In...
National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, has signed an agreement to connect Kyrgyzstan’s Bank of Asia to SWIFT via NSD’s service bureau.read more...
View ArticleBitcoin Price Retakes Key Moving Average for First Time in Two Months
BTC found acceptance above the 50-day moving average support on Monday, however, a bull reversal is still not confirmed.
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