BNP Paribas Asset Management Appoints Jane Ambachtsheer As Global Head Of...
BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) announces the appointment of Jane Ambachtsheer as Global Head of Sustainability. Jane will report to Frédéric Janbon, CEO and Head of Investments at BNPP AM....
View ArticleThe 'Dark DAO' Threat: Vote Vulnerability Could Undermine Crypto Elections
According to researchers at Cornell, blockchains utilizing on-chain voting â such as EOS and Tezos â are vulnerable to certain vote buying attacks.
View ArticleFinancial Exchange Patent Explores Tamper-Proof Blockchain Bidding
A state-backed financial asset exchange in China is exploring how to build a secure blockchain-based system for online auctions.
View ArticlePolice Force Confiscates 295 Bitcoins from Criminal in UK First
A British county police force has become the first in the country to have successfully seized and sold bitcoins obtained in a criminal case.
View ArticleMoscow Exchange: Risk Parameters Change For The Securities
The following risk parameters will be changed:read more...
View ArticleBitcoin's Biggest Startups Are Backing a New Effort to Keep Fees Low
A project called Bitcoin OpTech is launching to ensure companies like Coinbase and Square know the best technologies out there to reduce user fees.
View ArticleBME; VERACRUZ PROPERTIES SOCIMI To Start Trading On MAB On 24 July
The Board of Directors of MAB has approved the listing of VERACRUZ PROPERTIES SOCIMI, following a thorough review of all the information presented by the company and after the favourable assessment...
View ArticleESMA Launches Dedicated Template For Systematic Internalisers Calculations...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today provided access to the template which will be used to publish the first set of figures necessary for investment firms to assess whether...
View ArticleHKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contract
Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Tuesday, 24 July...
View ArticleBME: CASTELLANA PROPERTIES SOCIMI Receives Favourable Report From MAB
The Coordination and Admissions Committee of the Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB) has submitted to the Board of Directors a favourable report on CASTELLANA PROPERTIES SOCIMI, stating that it is...
View ArticleDeutsche Bank to Pay Nearly $75 Million for Improper Handling of ADRs
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that two U.S.-based subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $75 million to settle charges of improper handling of âpre-releasedâ...
View ArticleOFR Futures Volume Surpasses 100K - Investors Show Strong Demand For New CME...
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that total volume for its new Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) futures contract, launched on May 7, 2018,...
View ArticleEuropean Council - Council Of The European Union: General Affairs Council...
The Council, in EU27 format, was briefed by the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on the state of play in the Brexit negotiations. The chief negotiator informed the ministers about where the...
View ArticleThe Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results -- by Timothy N....
We replicate nine key results from the happiness literature: the Easterlin Paradox, the 'U-shaped' relation between happiness and age, the happiness trade-off between inflation and unemployment,...
View ArticleAny Press is Good Press? The Unanticipated Effects of Title IX Investigations...
Since 2011, when the landmark "Dear Colleague" letter declared that the Department of Education (DoE) would use equal-access requirements of federal law to remediate sexual assault on college campuses,...
View ArticleThe Welfare Implications of Health Insurance -- by Anup Malani, Sonia P. Jaffe
We analyze the financial value of insurance when individuals have access to credit markets. Loans allow consumers to smooth shocks across time, decreasing the value of the smoothing (across states of...
View ArticleUnintended Consequences of Eliminating Tax Havens -- by Juan Carlos Suarez...
We show that eliminating firms' access to tax havens has unintended consequences for economic growth. We analyze a policy change that limited profit shifting for US multinationals, and show that the...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence From Mexico --...
This paper provides evidence on the difficulty of expanding access to credit through large institutions. We use detailed observational data and a large-scale countrywide experiment to examine a large...
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