How NFTs Hype pushes forward crypto and blockchain communities’ “agenda”
A digital artwork sold at Christie’s auction for an eye popping $69m, we start imagining a huge party where the owner lavishly shows off...
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- Apr 16, 2020
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Future of The Greenbacks: Are the Dollar Days Over?
The US Dollar has enjoyed global dominance since it overtook British Pound post World War II as the globally accepted currency for...
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- Jun 19, 2019
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ShareLibra Demystified
Facebook is launching its cryptocurrency – the Libra. And China has announced elections. Sounds incongruous? When a corporation known as...
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- Apr 21, 2019
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Why has Blockchain not disrupted the world yet
Given its potential and arguable Bitcoin success as global digital virtual currency, why did Blockchain not disrupt the world yet 1. ICOs...
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- Nov 6, 2018
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Book release and review – Squaring the Blockchain circle
Squaring the Blockchain circle (Nov 2018) The hype-fog surrounding the blockchain and its offspring cryptocurrencies is peaking, and this...
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- Oct 17, 2016
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Why P2P lending opportunity may not scale for a long time
What is Peer-to-Peer Lending? Peer-to-peer lending (also known as person-to-person lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is...
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- May 20, 2015
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Role of Technology in the Growth of Indian Financial Markets
Indian financial markets have seen a major growth in the current decade in terms of technological advancements. This has enabled growth...
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- May 20, 2015
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Future of Fintech: Beyond 2015
Fintech will continue to grow and stay in headlines, but it will be far from the full disruption. I do not see a Google or Facebook alike...
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- Aug 18, 2013
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NSEL crisis – Mini Version of US subprime crisis in Indian capital markets
The US subprime crisis in 2007 had shaken the foundation of US economy and eventually the global economy. Subprime loans (loans for...
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- Jun 18, 2013
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Social Benefits of HFT and Algo Trading: Regulators should Embrace them
The tremendous growth in financial trading volumes in the last couple of decades has been made possible only with the use of technology....
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- Nov 26, 2012
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Open Source Technology for Financial Services
Financial Services play an important role in the countries’ and their economies’ functioning. Following the credit crisis (2008), and its...
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- Nov 18, 2012
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Algo Trading: The 1-O-1
Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader’s...
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- Nov 18, 2012
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Basics of Financial Trading
In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how...
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- Nov 18, 2012
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Electronic trading
Trading process has evolved over time. An individual or an institution needs to trade through a broker who is a member of the exchange....
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- Nov 18, 2012
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Dark Pools
Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...
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- Oct 27, 2012
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The Rise of Investment Banking in the Last 3 Decades
The Rise of Investment Banking Investment Banking has offered one of the best paid jobs and it’s questionable whether the Bankers did...
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- Oct 27, 2012
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Securitisation: The 1-O-1
Securitisation has been a key factor in the rise of financial services businesses and it poorly managed sub-prime loans distributed...
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- Oct 23, 2012
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What is the role of an Investment Bank?Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the follo
What is the role of an Investment Bank? Different Investment Banks would have a variant of the following generic business structure....
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- Oct 23, 2012
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How does an Investment Bank differ from a Retail Bank?
A bank is a financial institution with the purpose of lending and borrowing money. Retail banks are banks with retail customers (most...
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- Oct 23, 2012
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Root of Sub-Prime/Credit Crisis of 2008
What caused the sub-prime problem will be discussed and debated for long time. Many blame the Sub-Prime crisis upon Greedy Wall Street...
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