Last year saw a surge in markets abuse fines and high profile cases of deceptive trading particularly from large investment banks. “As financial markets have become increasingly complex, so have the ...
Wash trading on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges a widespread problem. In first quarter of 2020, wash trading constituted $4.5T in spot markets and $1.5T in derivatives markets. Geopolitical ...
In the analog days of trading, regulators were concerned with finding instances of the good old-fashioned pump and dump, insider trading, or market timing schemes. But digital transformation has ...
In 2020, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay over $920 million for creating fake orders to ostensibly change the prices of securities. In 2022, eight financial influencers used their social media following ...
Wash trading is likely the simplest of market manipulation schemes. However, it lays the fundamentals for many other schemes, and even its most basic form has proven incredibly effective in ...
Direct marketing—a marketing term that some have characterized as a tired or outdated form of marketing—is having its moment in the sun again. Have you spoken to a Gen-Z or Millennial marketer (like ...
Sometimes you just want a stock to be above a certain price. Maybe it’s to secure a performance bonus, avoid being delisted, prevent margin loans that would trigger or perhaps you are trying to ...
My most recent article failed to fully explain my idea of the contribution of financial futures to the evolution of financial market structure. It is easy to misinterpret that article as an argument ...