'Not True': Goldman's Blankfein Denies Bitcoin Trading Desk Rumor
The CEO of Goldman Sachs has denied a report from last year which said that the investment bank was moving to launch its own bitcoin trading desk.
View ArticleTwo More Companies Sign On to Test Ripple's XRP in xRapid Pilots
IDT Corporation and Mercury FX announced Wednesday that they would pilot Ripple's XRP token to facilitate real-time, low-cost international transfers.
View ArticleCanada's VersaBank Unveils 'Digital Vault' Blockchain Service
VersaBank, based in Canada, is developing a "blockchain-based digital safety deposit box" as part of an effort to tap the tech for new services.
View ArticleRapper 50 Cent Is Now a Bitcoin Millionaire
Rapper 50 Cent's move to accept bitcoin for his 2014 "Animal Ambition" album has resulted in a multi-million dollar windfall.
View ArticleBermuda Could Launch a Blockchain Land Registry
Bermuda is moving toward setting up a blockchain-based system for recording property deeds, its premier said at Davos this week.
View ArticleCFTC And SEC Chairmen In Joint Op-Ed: In Support Of Market-Enhancing...
CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo and SEC Chairman Jay Clayton wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal today about virtual currencies and the role both regulators have in ensuring that market...
View ArticleSEC Invites Regulated Entities To Voluntarily Submit Self-Assessments Of...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) today introduced its Diversity Assessment Report for Entities Regulated by the SEC.read more...
View ArticleMIAX Options: Adoption Of Chapter XVIII, Index Options And Amendment Of...
MIAX Options has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt rules relating to the listing and trading of cash-settled index options (Chapter XVIII - Index Options), as well...
View ArticleCourt Of Appeal Upholds Ontario Securities Commission Panel Decisions In...
On January 25, 2018, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC’s) Reasons for Decision on the Merits dated March 24, 2015 and its Reasons for Decision on Sanctions and...
View ArticleLawmaker Says 'Tennessee Is Ready for Blockchain' at Bill Hearing
Tennessee legislators say the state is "ready for the blockchain."
View ArticleBitcoin Takes the Stage at Davos in Currency Panel Debate
Cryptocurrencies took the stage Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, during a panel discussion on bitcoin.
View ArticleBitcoin Startup BitGo to Buy Asset Custodian
Blockchain security company BitGo will acquire Kingdom Trust in a new deal announced on Thursday.
View ArticleValuation of Currency Options in Markets with a Crunch. (arXiv:1801.08346v1...
This work studies the valuation of currency options in markets suffering from a financial crisis. We consider a European option where the underlying asset is a foreign currency. We assume that the...
View ArticleA Hilbert Space of Stationary Ergodic Processes. (arXiv:1801.08256v1 [stat.ML])
Identifying meaningful signal buried in noise is a problem of interest arising in diverse scenarios of data-driven modeling. We present here a theoretical framework for exploiting intrinsic geometry in...
View ArticleA bright future for financial agent-based models. (arXiv:1801.08222v1...
The history of research in finance and economics has been widely impacted by the field of Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE). While at the same time being popular among natural science...
View ArticleTarget volatility option pricing in lognormal fractional SABR model....
We examine in this article the pricing of target volatility options in the lognormal fractional SABR model. A decomposition formula by Ito's calculus yields a theoretical replicating strategy for the...
View ArticleWalton Coin (WTC) in a NutshellWalton Coin (WTC) in a Nutshell
Walton Chain (Walton Coin, WTC) is combines Blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IOT) using RFID technology. This not only allows smart devices to communicate to each other, but solve...
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January 2018 Data Update 6: A Cost of Capital Primer
I have long described the cost of capital as the Swiss Army Knife of finance, since it shows up in so many places in finance, albeit in different forms. In corporate finance, it is not only the cost of...
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