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The Law And Finance Of Initial Coin Offerings, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Nydia Remolina Leon
The Law And Finance Of Initial Coin Offerings, Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Nydia Remolina Leon
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The rise of new technologies is changing the way companies raise funds. Along with the increase of crowdfunding in recent years, the use of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) has emerged more recently as a new form to raise capital. Companies in the United States raised more than $4 billion in 2017 and over $6.3 billion were raised through ICOs in the first three months of 2018. In a typical ICO, a company receives cryptocurrencies in exchange for certain rights embodied in “tokens”, whose nature, treatment and implications are generating controversy among securities regulators around the world.
Commentary: Why We Need To Stop Fining Big Banks Like Wells Fargo, Mehrsa Baradaran
Commentary: Why We Need To Stop Fining Big Banks Like Wells Fargo, Mehrsa Baradaran
Popular Media
When big banks behave badly, they know that the worst thing they’ll get is a fine; no one is going to end up in jail. Instead, shareholders end up paying the cost, not the bank employees responsible. Shareholders are a diffuse group of investors, many of whom hold shares as a part of a diverse portfolio. They are not the ones who commit such fraud, nor do they have much power to change the bank’s day-to-day operations.
Clearly fines don’t work to prevent misconduct. We should instead rely on the constitutional method of dealing with wrongdoing: the criminal justice system.
S18rs Sgr No. 3 (Fin 1060), Erica Borne, David Trepagnier
S18rs Sgr No. 3 (Fin 1060), Erica Borne, David Trepagnier
Student Senate Enrolled Legislation
A RESOLUTION
To Urge and Request the College of Business to expand the course offerings for Finance 1060
Regulation And Deregulation: The Baseline Challenge, Kathryn Judge
Regulation And Deregulation: The Baseline Challenge, Kathryn Judge
Faculty Scholarship
What does it mean to deregulate? Is deregulation just about the repeal of existing rules? In a closed and static system, this definition seems apt. But what if the bounds are porous? Or the internal workings of the system are dynamic? Once a system is structured to allow the option set to change, do the proscriptions embedded in law at Time A remain the appropriate baseline? Or should the baseline evolve, recreating the balance struck at Time A given the option set that exists at Time B? What if the reasons for the balance struck at Time A are myriad, …