Dubai Financial Services Authority Fines Former Licensed Directors
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has fined two individuals USD 56,000 (AED 205,520) each for failing to act with due skill, care and diligence, which caused an Authorised Firm to breach...
View ArticleAssets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed Globally Reached A New Record High Of...
Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally reached a new record high US$3.137 trillion at the end of April 2016, according to preliminary data from ETFGI’s April 2016 global ETF and ETP industry...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse Cash Market: New UBS Commodity Index ETF...
A new UBS Global Asset Management commodity index ETF has been tradable via Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday.read more...
View ArticleITG Releases April 2016 U.S. Trading Volumes
NEW YORK, May 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today announced that April 2016 U.S. trading volume was 2.7 billion shares and...
View ArticleCFTC Financial Data For Futures Commission Merchants Update
Futures commission merchants (FCMs) and retail foreign exchange dealers (RFEDs) must file monthly financial reports with the CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) within 17...
View ArticleLondon Stock Exchange Derivatives Market Launches FTSE 100 Weekly Options
London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market (LSEDM), the derivatives market of the London Stock Exchange, today announces the launch of weekly options based on the FTSE 100 Index from 31 May 2016. This...
View ArticleCulture In Financial Services â A Regulatorâs Perspective -...
It is good to be at City Week again. Also, congratulations on the welcome approach to the geography of City Week – bringing it to the Oval means that for those of us who live south of the river, we...
View ArticleZombies-To-Be and the Walking Dead of Debt
Using the dynamics of creditâwhich most other economists ignoreâI explain why Japan, the USA and UK are among the âWalking Dead of Debtâ and why China, Canada, Australia and South Korea are on...
View ArticleSolactive And Bluestar Launch The Israel Economic Exposure Indexes - Unique...
By launching the Solactive-BlueStar Israel Economic Exposure Index (IEEI) family, Solactive AG and BlueStar Indexes introduce an innovative pair of indexes designed to reflect the segmentation of the...
View ArticleThe Great Recession in the Shadow of the Great Depression: A Review Essay on...
This essay reviews Barry Eichengreen's recent book that compares the Great Depression and the Great Recession. Eichengreen focuses on deficient aggregate demand as the key reason for why both downturns...
View ArticleDigital Currencies, Decentralized Ledgers, and the Future of Central Banking...
Central banking in an age of digital currencies is a fast-developing topic in monetary economics. Algorithmic digital currencies such as bitcoin appear to be viable competitors to central bank fiat...
View ArticleTechnology and Education: Computers, Software, and the Internet -- by George...
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature...
View ArticleGlobal Production with Export Platforms -- by Felix Tintelnot
Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host...
View ArticleImpacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries -- by...
Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments designed to understand the...
View ArticleMoral Costs and Rational Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence -- by James...
The literature exploring other regarding behavior sheds important light on interesting social phenomena, yet less attention has been given to how the received results speak to foundational assumptions...
View ArticleMaternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural...
The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by...
View ArticleNon-durable Consumption and Housing Net Worth in the Great Recession:...
In an influential paper, Mian, Rao and Sufi (2013) exploit geographic variation in housing supply elasticities to measure the effect of changes in the housing share of net worth on total household...
View ArticleDemocracy for Polarized Committees: The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants -- by...
In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also...
View ArticleACERâs Annual Conference: A Look Into The Future As The Agency Turns Five
ACER is glad to invite you to its fifth Annual Conference “ACER: Past, Present and Future”, which will take place on 16 June. The Conference will take stock of ACER’s first five years and aim to define...
View ArticleState Bank Of India & Accuity Win Anti-Money Laundering Technology...
State Bank of India (SBI) and Accuity win the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Technology Implementation of the Year 2016 at The Asian Banker Awards today.read more...
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