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Even though some traditional financial firms parked millions in the bankrupt company – once valued at $30 billion – the impact of FTX’s spectacular crash is limited to crypto investors
New research suggests financial regulators will never win.
Reforming the Bank of England to help it tackle inflation may end up compromising its independence.
The UK’s cost of living crisis has exposed the financial vulnerability of consumers, especially those using ‘buy now, pay later’ products.
The SEC’s proposal would require companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and other climate risks, but it’s not a done deal yet.
Some investors want publicly traded companies to disclose their full climate impact, including emissions from their supply chains and product use.
The inaugural chair of the ACCC says Gina Cass-Gottlieb’s experience opposing the ACCC in court will prove invaluable, and that it’s time to appoint a lawyer as chair.
Some 10,000 people are likely to give up their US passport this year, way above average. Are they fleeing COVID-19? Nasty politics? Taxes? None of the above, says an expert on American citizenship.
The banks hoped last year’s PPI deadline would draw a line under the scandal - but the claims keep coming.
The Bank of Canada is proposing a federally managed digital currency that flies in the face of the decentralized approach to money that cryptocurrencies have established.
Attitudes to banks are changing. This requires them to be more customer centric, and to take their role in society more seriously.
Anti-money laundering efforts are based on measuring activity, not results. To cut crime and terrorism, we need a frank conversation about where the system has gone wrong.
Libra has lost seven of its 28 founding members – but don’t expect that to hold it back.
Mobile loan platforms have given Kenyans access to easy loans, but they come at a high price.
Iran has long recognised the benefits of using cryptocurrencies to counter US sanctions.
The CEO of a Canadian cryptocurrency company died recently, and took his passwords with him, leaving his clients high and dry. The debacle illustrates again that cryptocurrencies should be regulated.
Blockchain technology was supposed to make trust unnecessary – but that turns out not to be true. Most people will want laws and regulations to help make blockchain-based systems trustworthy.
It is a furphy that regulation for good corporate culture is impossible. It is done in the Netherlands and it is already under way in Australia, albeit in an unacknowledged, and limited, form.
The financial services industry is in need of a new paradigm to rediscover what finance is for – to improve the financial and economic well-being of society.
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Reader in International Political Economy, King's College London
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Victoria University and Adjunct Professor of Economics, Victoria University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Law, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Public Administration, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Penn State
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Law Student, Penn State
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, Monash University
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School of Social Sciences, Monash University
