ETFGI Reports That Assets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed In Japan Increased By...
ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in Japan increased by 59.2% during 2017...
View ArticleNasdaq Elects Joseph Mecane To The Board Of Directors Of Its U.S. Exchanges
Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ), today announced the addition of Joseph Mecane to the board of directors of the following U.S. exchanges operated by the company: The Nasdaq Stock Market, LLC; Nasdaq PHLX,...
View ArticleHow To Save on Bitcoin's Soaring Fees
Transaction fees are the talk of the bitcoin ecosystem, with many users upset by the rising cost to send funds, but there are simple ways to cut fees.
View ArticleShenzhen Stock Exchange Improves The Risk Management System, Fighting An...
SZSE attaches much importance to risk management and has been actively exploring a perfect mode of risk management. By now, SZSE has formed an overall risk management system based on evaluation and...
View ArticleAnnouncement Of Shanghai International Energy Exchange On Approval Of INE...
The Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), upon deliberation at the INE board of directors meeting on January 10, 2018, and in accordance with the Membership Management Rules of the Shanghai...
View ArticleIrish Stock Exchange Receives GLEIF Accreditation For LEI Services
The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) has been accredited by Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) as a provider for Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) services. The ISE operates its LEI services...
View ArticleEU Commissioner to Host 'High Level Roundtable' on Cryptocurrencies
A European Union commissioner plans to hold a meeting of public and private sector stakeholders to discuss the impact of cryptocurrencies.
View ArticlePayment Processor Stripe to End Support for Bitcoin
Payments processor Stripe announced it would end support for bitcoin in April, citing rising transaction costs and times as two reasons for the move.
View ArticleAmazon User Orders Bitcoin Miner, Gets 'Boss Baby' DVD Instead
An Amazon UK customer is relieved after finally receiving a refund for an Antminer S9 which he paid for but never received.
View ArticleLaunch Of Research Project “The Quantum Countdown: Quantum Computing...
The Distributed Futures research programme is pleased to announce the launch of a project entitled, “The Quantum Countdown: Quantum Computing And The Future Of Distributed Ledger Encryption.” This is...
View ArticleSarcasm As Best Precaution Against Crisis, By Kelvin To, Founder And...
Central bankers around the world shifted priorities in a last minute notice. They postponed deadlines for FRTB revised market risk framework, CVA, IRB, operational risk SMA and others to 2022 and...
View ArticleGaussian Approximation of a Risk Model with Stationary Hawkes Arrivals of...
We consider a classical risk process with arrival of claims following a stationary Hawkes process. We study the asymptotic regime when the premium rate and the baseline intensity of the claims arrival...
View ArticleAlonso and the Scaling of Urban Profiles. (arXiv:1801.07512v1 [physics.soc-ph])
The scaling of urban characteristics with total population has become an important research field since one needs to better understand the challenges of urban densification. Yet urban scaling research...
View ArticleCapital allocation under Fundamental Review of Trading Book....
The Fundamental Review of Trading Book (FRTB) from the Basel Committee overhauls the regulatory framework for minimum capital requirements for market risk. Facing the tightened regulation, banks need...
View ArticleNumeraire markets. (arXiv:1801.07309v1 [q-fin.MF])
In a stock market, the numeraire portfolio, if it exists, is the portfolio with the highest expected logarithmic growth rate at all times. A numeraire market is a stock market for which the market...
View ArticleMakerDAO and More: The Quest for a Stable Stablecoin Continues
Even with a tumultuous past and harsh critics, stablecoin projects keep popping up, aiming to relieve some of the volatility in the crypto markets.
View ArticleHongshi Holding Group Issues B&R Construction Corporate Bond On Shanghai...
On January 19, Hongshi Holding Group Co., Ltd. successfully issued the "Belt and Road" (B&R) construction corporate bond on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), which was also the first B&R...
View ArticleUK Government Lures Distributed Ledger Projects With $26 Million Fund
Innovate UK, the United Kingdom's innovation arm, plans to invest more than $26 million in emerging tech projects, including distributed ledgers.
View ArticleJanuary 2018 Data Update 4: The Currency Conundrum
There is perhaps no more mangled nor misunderstood part of financial analysis than the handling of currencies, and globalization has only made the problems worse. From the laziness of assuming that...
View ArticleHKEX Lays Out Key Plans For 2018
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) plans to implement Hong Kong’s biggest listing regime reform in 25 years to provide issuers and investors with a wider range of choices, enhance its...
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