Bats Europe Encourages Industry Harmonisation For MiFID II Requirement For...
Bats Europe (Bats), the region’s largest stock exchange operator, has made available for testing on its platform its MiFID II compliant process for order record keeping, which the exchange is proposing...
View ArticleExtension Of Authorisation Of The Clearing House KDPW_CCP
The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) has extended the authorisation of the clearing house KDPW_CCP to cover new classes of instruments and categories of acceptable collateral as of 9 August...
View ArticleThai Alternative Bourse's Listed Firms Reports Upbeat Q2 Earnings
Thai companies listed on Market for Alternative Investment (mai), under the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) group, reported the combined net profit of THB 2.33 billion (approx. USD 66.63 million) in...
View ArticleDIFC Establishes Wealth Management Working Group
The Governor of the DIFC, HE Essa Kazim, has established a DIFC Wealth Management Working Group to discuss and compile an updated wealth management strategy for the DIFC. Its key focus areas will be to...
View ArticleHow Rigged Are Stock Markets?: Evidence From Microsecond Timestamps -- by...
We use new timestamp data from the two Securities Information Processors (SIPs) to examine SIP reporting latencies for quote and trade reports. Reporting latencies average 1.13 milliseconds for quotes...
View ArticleTechnology and Production Fragmentation: Domestic versus Foreign Sourcing --...
This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing...
View ArticleBorn with a Silver Spoon? Danish Evidence on Wealth Inequality in Childhood...
We study wealth inequality in childhood using Danish wealth records from three decades. While teenagers have some earnings, we estimate that transfers account for at least 50 percent of wealth at age...
View ArticleDoes Organizational Form Drive Competition? Evidence from Coffee Retailing --...
This article examines patterns of entry and exit in a relatively homogeneous product market to investigate the impact of entry on incumbent firms and market structure. In particular, we are interested...
View ArticleMeasuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private...
Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity...
View ArticleHeterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-border Mergers and...
While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little...
View ArticleAttention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience...
This paper shows that accounting for variation in mistakes can be crucial for welfare analysis. Focusing on consumer underreaction to not-fully-salient sales taxes, we show theoretically that the...
View ArticleGeographic Diversification and Banks' Funding Costs -- by Ross Levine, Chen...
We assess the impact of the geographic expansion of bank assets on the cost of banks' interest-bearing liabilities. Existing research suggests that expansion can both intensify agency problems that...
View ArticleHuman Capital Investments and Expectations about Career and Family -- by...
This paper studies how individuals "believe" human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and...
View ArticleSGX Launches SGX APAC Ex Japan Dividend Leaders REIT Index
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the launch of the SGX APAC ex Japan Dividend Leaders REIT Index, composed of 30 real estate investment trusts (REITs) across the Asia Pacific ex Japan region....
View ArticleClosing Calls Good For UAE Markets - University Of Wollongong Study Shows...
Professor Alex Frino, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Professor of Economics at the University of Wollongong Dubai, has released the results of a study into the impact of closing calls on market quality in...
View Article29Aug/Implementation of Basel standards - A report to G20 Leaders on...
The report summarises the steps taken by Basel Committee member jurisdictions to adopt the Basel III standards, banks' progress in bolstering their capital and liquidity positions, the consistency of...
View Article29Aug/Basel III implementation: Basel Committee reports to G20 Leaders
Press release about the Basel Committee reporting to G20 Leaders on Basel III implementation (29 August 2016)
View ArticleEEX New Participant: Stadtwerke München GmbH
Stadtwerke München GmbH has additionally been admitted to exchange trading for Nordic Financial Power Futures.
View ArticleETFGI Reports Assets Invested In ETFs/ETPs Listed In Canada Reached A New...
ETFGI, the leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in Canada have increased 25.3% year to date to reach...
View ArticleMoscow Exchange Index Calculation Methodology Registered By The Regulator
The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has registered an updated version of the Methodology of the Moscow Exchange Indices Calculation adopted by the Directorate of MICEX Stock Exchange on 13 July 2016.read...
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