Ontario Securities Commission Investor Alert: Bitcoin Multi-Level Marketing...
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is warning investors that USI Tech Limited (USI Tech), Eleanor Parker and Casey Combden are not registered to sell securities in Ontario.read more...
View ArticleFINRA Warns Investors Of 'Regulator' Imposter Scams - Con Artists Posing As...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued an Investor Alert warning investors to beware of financial scams in which con artists are posing as regulators to make fraudulent...
View ArticleFederal Reserve Board Seeking To Impose A $487,500 Fine On Former Barclays...
The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it is seeking to permanently bar Peter Little, the former head of the foreign exchange (FX) spot desk at Barclays Bank PLC in New York, from...
View ArticleCFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update
The current reports for the week of February 13, 2018 are now available.
View ArticleNadex Schedule For The President’s Day Holiday On Monday, February 19,...
Nadex will observe the following product specific trading hours for the week of February 19, 2018:read more...
View ArticleWill Polymath change Everything?!!Will Polymath change Everything?!!
Polymath wants to bring about the securities revolution by building a framework to allow the listing of registered securities tokens on Ethereum. It will introduce the ST-20 standard with baked in KYC...
View ArticleThe CryptoKitties Competitors: 4 Ethereum Games That Are Catching Up
CryptoKitties may be the best-known ethereum app, but other games are fast winning users and registering notable volumes for expensive collectables.
View ArticleIn 10 Years We Won't Have Blockchains
Instead, we may have something that does what a blockchain does, only faster, cheaper and scalable. It'll look more like a graph than a linear chain.
View ArticleNasdaq Dubai Launches Futures On ADX Share Index To Provide Attractive New...
1Rashed Al Blooshi, Chief Executive of Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), and Hamed Ali, Chief Executive of Nasdaq Dubai, rang the ADX market opening bell to welcome the launch today by Nasdaq Dubai...
View ArticleDogecoin Is Helping Ethereum Solve Its Biggest Issue
Years after it was written off as a joke, dogecoin continues to prove useful, this time factoring into a major ethereum test.
View ArticleNo, Not All ICOs Are Securities
A recent op-ed paints all ICOs with the same brush, claiming every one of them offers securities subject to SEC scrutiny. That is simply not the case.
View ArticleCyber Attack On City Union Bank’s SWIFT System
With reference to the news item appeared in the section of the Press on 17 February 2018 and 18 February 2018 on cyber attack on City Union Bank’s SWIFT system, we would like to inform the...
View ArticleNasdaq Dubai Launches Futures On DFM General Index In Breakthrough For...
His Excellency Essa Kazim, Chairman of Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Abdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of Nasdaq Dubai, rang the market-opening bell to celebrate the launch today by Nasdaq Dubai of...
View ArticleWhat Do Trade Agreements Really Do? -- by Dani Rodrik
As trade agreements have evolved and gone beyond import tariffs and quotas into regulatory rules and harmonization, they have become more difficult to fit into received economic theory. Nevertheless,...
View ArticlePromotions and the Peter Principle -- by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, Kelly Shue
The best worker is not always the best candidate for manager. In these cases, do firms promote the best potential manager or the best worker in her current job? Using microdata on the performance of...
View ArticleThe New Fama Puzzle -- by Matthieu Bussiere, Menzie D. Chinn, Laurent...
We re-examine the Fama (1984) puzzle - the finding that ex post depreciation and interest differentials are negatively correlated, contrary to what theory suggests - for eight advanced country exchange...
View ArticleThe Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling...
This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania which increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950. We use a regression discontinuity design at the day level...
View ArticleSunlight and Protection Against Influenza -- by David Slusky, Richard J....
Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to sunlight produce vitamin D directly. This paper investigates how...
View ArticleCan Innovators be Created? Experimental Evidence from an Innovation Contest...
Existing theories and empirical research on how innovation occurs largely assume that innovativeness is an inherent characteristic of the individual and that people with this innate ability select into...
View ArticleTeam Formation and Performance: Evidence from Healthcare Referral Networks --...
How does team structure affect productivity? We address this question with an application to healthcare by examining the teams that primary care physicians (PCPs) assemble when they refer patients to...
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