Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Trading China’s Evolving Forex Markets
As currency trading increases in China and new technologies emerge, the regulatory environment is changing.
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Delaware Mulls Rules For Distributed Ledgers
Delaware has proposed amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping and to keep track of stock transactions, the state’s latest effort to be a first mover when it comes to blockchain technology.
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FM Global Beefs Up Resilience Index
FM Global, one of the world’s largest business property insurers, four years ago created its Resilience Index to rank 130 countries and territories according to their ability to manage disruptive events.
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Reaping Interest Rewards With Raisin
The partnership of mobile-only bank N26 with German fintech Raisin allows the bank to offer its clients, initially in Germany but across the EU beginning next year, the chance to open savings accounts with just a few taps. As Raisin ...
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Swaps Loophole Still Puts US At Risk
Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way.
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Digital Disruption And Creative Destruction
Global Finance rates the top financial innovations of the last 30 years, looking at where we are, where we’ve come from and how we got from there to here
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#1 Online Banking
Chosen by readers and experts the #1 financial innovation of the last 30 years: online banking.
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#10 Microfinance
Although its successes have been less far-reaching than hoped by some of its proponents, it does provide a response to the challenges to helping the impoverished gain access to financial services to increase their incomes and financial stability.
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#2 Mobile Payments
Starbucks generates 27% of its US sales via mobile payments, as consumers opt for contactless coffee. While there were efforts to provide banking through cell phones in the late 90s, the transition, around 2007, from cellphones to smartphones—with their expanded ...
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#3 Ecommerce
Ebay leaders Meg Whitman, Bill Cobb, and Rajiv Dutta at an eBay Live event in 2007. Photo by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Ten years before Jeff Bezos left a New York hedge fund to start selling books over the Internet ...
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#4 ETFs
Nathan Most, at the Amex, and Kathy Cuocolo, at State Street, were key players in the creation of SPDRs.
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#5 Black-Scholes-Merton And Algorithms
Left to right: Robert Merton, Myron Scholes and Fisher Black Markets are known to be risky, but what if you could design insurance that would protect against losses?