Rethinking the Onboarding Process
How many companies bore the heck out of new employees during the onboarding process? Do they bury them under an avalanche of forms to be completed and powerpoints to be viewed? Recently, Dave Gilboa,...
View ArticleUK Government Announces New Cryptocurrency Research Effort
The U.K. government will launch new research aimed to explore the potential risks posed by cryptocurrencies, a minister has said.
View ArticleFrance's Central Bank: Keep Financial Institutions Out of Crypto
A report from the Bank of France advocates strict regulations for crypto-assets, including a ban on activity by banks, insurers and trust companies.
View ArticleKyber Network Opens Its Decentralized Crypto-Exchange To The Public - At A...
Kyber Network, a highly anticipated decentralized cryptocurrency exchange who conducted one of the most successful crowdfunding events of 2017, has today announced that their public beta is open to the...
View ArticleIsraeli Regulator: Utility Tokens Shouldn't Be Deemed Securities
The Israel Securities Authority also proposed an ICO sandbox in a recent report now in the hands of the agency's chair, who will decide how to proceed
View Article14 Thai Banks Back Blockchain Platform to Digitize Contracts
Fourteen Thai banks will cooperate in the Thailand Blockchain Community Initiative, which will digitize letters of guarantee on a shared blockchain.
View ArticleSpatial risk measures and rate of spatial diversification....
An accurate assessment of the risk of extreme environmental events is of great importance for populations, authorities and the banking/insurance industry. Koch (2017) introduced a notion of spatial...
View ArticleJumping VaR: Order Statistics Volatility Estimator for Jumps Classification...
This paper proposes a new integrated variance estimator based on order statistics within the framework of jump-diffusion models. Its ability to disentangle the integrated variance from the total...
View ArticleApproximation of Some Multivariate Risk Measures for Gaussian Risks....
Gaussian random vectors exhibit the loss of dimension phenomena, which relate to their joint survival tail behaviour. Besides, the fact that the components of such vectors are light-tailed complicates...
View ArticleUniversal features of price formation in financial markets: perspectives from...
Using a large-scale Deep Learning approach applied to a high-frequency database containing billions of electronic market quotes and transactions for US equities, we uncover nonparametric evidence for...
View ArticleLarge-Scale Dynamic Predictive Regressions. (arXiv:1803.06738v1 [stat.ME])
We develop a novel "decouple-recouple" dynamic predictive strategy and contribute to the literature on forecasting and economic decision making in a data-rich environment. Under this framework,...
View ArticleModeling stock markets through the reconstruction of market processes....
There are two possible ways of interpreting the seemingly stochastic nature of financial markets: the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and a set of stylized facts that drive the behavior of the...
View ArticleMean Reverting Portfolios via Penalized OU-Likelihood Estimation....
We study an optimization-based approach to con- struct a mean-reverting portfolio of assets. Our objectives are threefold: (1) design a portfolio that is well-represented by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck...
View ArticleTough Tokens: Theranos Fraud Holds Harsh Lessons for Crypto
While cryptocurrencies aren't companies, the Elizabeth Holmes case serves as a reminder you should ignore the charisma of founders.
View ArticleVenezuelan Politician Blasts US Sanctions as Petro ICO Goes Public
A politician from Venezuela's ruling party has denounced U.S. sanctions against the petro, as the sale of the token opens to the public.
View Article$9K Ahead? Bitcoin Looks North After Bull Breakout
Bitcoin is eyeing a move towards $9,000, courtesy of a bullish breakout on the 4-hour chart and a bullish hammer reversal on the daily chart.
View ArticleBME: Changes To The Technical Advisory Committee Of The IBEX Indices - Mikel...
The Board of Directors of Sociedad de Bolsas has agreed to modify the composition of the Technical Advisory Committee of the IBEX indices following the death, in February, of Blas Calzada.read more...
View ArticleHigh Risks Persist For European Securities Markets And Investors, ESMA Says
European securities markets, infrastructures and investors remain at risk, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said today in its latest Trends, Risks, and Vulnerabilities (TRV) Report...
View ArticleHong Kong Stock Exchange Looks to ASX for Blockchain Equity Settlement
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is looking to follow its Australian counterpart in developing a blockchain settlement system.
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