SGX Raises Pro-Rata Renounceable Rights Issue Cap To 100% Of Share Capital
Singapore Exchange (SGX) is enabling companies to seek a general mandate for an issue of pro-rata renounceable rights shares of up to 100% of the share capital from 50% previously. The enhanced rights...
View ArticleReinventing Algos: ITG Survey Finds Buyside Traders Seeking Custom Features...
NEW YORK, March 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today released a survey of North American institutional investorsâ views...
View ArticleM&A - Research Shows the Number of Leaked Deals increased in 2015
After reaching a six year low in 2014, the number of M&A deal leaks globally increased in 2015, according to recent research conducted by Intralinks and the M&A Research Centre (MARC) at Cass...
View ArticleSpeech By Ashley Alder, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong's Securities And...
Corporate Governance is a fiendishly difficult topic to pin down. It’s incredibly broad, and perhaps that’s why it seems to be the subject of so much discussion and generates a very large volume of...
View ArticleRival Systems And Algo-Logic Systems Level The Playing Field With Integrated...
Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, and Algo-Logic Systems, a leading FPGA ultra-low latency trading solutions provider, announced today that they...
View ArticleCME Group Inc. Announces First-Quarter 2017 Earnings Release, Conference Call
CME Group Inc. will announce earnings for the first quarter of 2017 before the markets open on Thursday, April 27, 2017. The company has scheduled an investor conference call that day at 7:30 a.m....
View ArticleProcrastination and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment...
Municipal governments commonly confront problems with property tax collection. We model tardy taxpayers as procrastinators that have a present bias. Late payments arise due to lack of salience, lack of...
View ArticleWhen Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct -- by...
We examine gender discrimination in the financial advisory industry. We study a less salient mechanism for discrimination, firm discipline following missteps. There are substantial differences in the...
View ArticleThe Impact of Public and Private Research Support on Premature Cancer...
We use data from PubMed and other sources to examine the impact of public and private research support on premature (before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating...
View ArticleWorker Overconfidence: Field Evidence and Implications for Employee Turnover...
Combining weekly productivity data with weekly productivity beliefs for a large sample of truckers over two years, we show that workers tend to systematically and persistently over-predict their...
View ArticleUrban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries -- by...
Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce...
View ArticleReal Anomalies -- by Jules H. van Binsbergen, Christian C. Opp
We examine the importance of asset pricing anomalies (alphas) for the real economy. We develop a novel quantitative model with lumpy investment that features such informational inefficiencies and...
View ArticleTrade Policy and Redistribution when Preferences are Non-Homothetic -- by...
We compare redistribution through trade restrictions vs. domestic lump-sum transfers. When preferences are non-homothetic, even domestic lump-sum transfers affect relative prices. Thus, contrary to the...
View ArticleThe Earnings of Undocumented Immigrants -- by George J. Borjas
Over 11 million undocumented persons reside in the United States, and there has been a heated debate over the impact of legislative or executive efforts to regularize the status of this population....
View ArticleReadout From A Treasury Spokesperson Of Secretary Mnuchinâs Call With...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke by phone today with Pierre Moscovici, European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs. Secretary Mnuchin conveyed that he looks forward to working...
View ArticleUK's Competition And Markets Authority: ICE/Trayport Remittal -...
First published on 13 March 2017, in accordance with Rule 7 of the Competition and Markets Authority Rules of Procedure for Merger, Market and Special Reference Groups. Any revisions made to the...
View ArticleIntercontinental Exchange Statement On Competition Appeal Tribunalâs...
As announced on 6 March 2016, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has reversed the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision that the new agreement between ICE and Trayport should be...
View ArticleSEC FOIA Office Receives Award For Exceptional Service
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that its Office of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Services was recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice for “exceptional service” by FOIA...
View ArticleComptroller Of The Currency Discusses The Value Of International...
Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry today discussed the value of international collaboration and professional bank supervision during the Institute of International Bankers’ Annual Washington...
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