SEC Halts Ongoing Fraudulent Stock Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has won a court-ordered asset freeze to halt an ongoing fraud by two former brokers with disciplinary histories who allegedly raised more than...
View ArticleDeputy Chief Accountant Brian T. Croteau To Leave SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Brian T. Croteau, Deputy Chief Accountant, is planning to leave the agency.read more...
View ArticleUK Establishes FinTech Bridge With The Republic Of Korea - New FinTech Bridge...
The new FinTech Bridge, an agreement that makes it easier for UK and the Republic of Korea to invest in FinTech, will help UK FinTech firms and investors access the Asian market and expand to the...
View ArticleNigerian Stock Exchange Weekly Report Statistics For Week Ending 22 July 2016
A turnover of 1.350 billion shares worth N9.287 billion in 18,679 deals were traded this week by investors on the floor of the Exchange in contrast to a total of 1.149 billion shares valued at N13.616...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse-London Stock Exchange Group: Announcement...
On 1 June 2016, HLDCO123 PLC, London, United Kingdom, (the “Bidder“) has published the offer document for its voluntary public takeover offer in the form of an exchange offer (“Takeover Offer“) to the...
View ArticleVincente L. Martinez, Chief Of Office Of Market Intelligence, To Leave SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Vincente L. Martinez, Chief of the SEC’s Office of Market Intelligence is planning to leave the agency in early August.read more...
View ArticleCFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update
The current reports for the week of July 19, 2016 are now available.read more...
View ArticleNYSE Successfully Petitions For A Simplified Listing Process For Actively...
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), today announced receipt of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to streamline the listing process for...
View ArticleTOM MTF Statistics Week 29, 2016
Click here to download the weekly statistics update of TOM MTF for week 29, 2016. In week 29 a total of 273,116 equity and index option contracts were traded resulting in a TOM MTF market share versus...
View ArticleVideo on Social Influence: Mob Rules
Building on the last blog post, check out this National Geographic video about social influence.
View ArticleJonah Berger on Social Influence
Building on the recent blog post about social influence, here's Jonah Berger himself talking about his research.
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The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers
The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers shows how the ubiquitous financial reports have become useless in capital market decisions and lays out an actionable alternative....
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Instant Memory Training For Success: Practical Techniques for a Sharper Mind
Learn to train your brain with "The International Man of Memory"Instant Memory Training for Success provides real, practical brain training that works. Fed up of forgetting everything from where you...
View ArticleBats Comments On SECâs Approval Of Generic Listings Filing - Landmark...
Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today issued the following statement in response to the SEC’s approval of its filing to adopt generic listing standards for actively managed exchange-traded...
View ArticleMay you live in "exciting" times! An Updated Picture of Country Risk
About a year ago, I completed my first update of a paper looking at all aspects of country risk, from political risk to default risk to equity risk, and wrote about my findings in three posts, one on...
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The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information -- by Marieke Bos,...
Credit information affects the allocation of consumer credit, but its effects on other markets that are relevant for academic and policy analysis are unknown. This paper measures the effect of negative...
View ArticleCEO Personality and Firm Policies -- by Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David...
Based on two samples of high quality personality data for chief executive officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a...
View ArticleThe Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems -- by Brian...
Economists often use test scores to measure a student's performance or an adult's human capital. These scores reflect non-trivial decisions about how to measure and scale student achievement, with...
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