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Certification arbitrage in digital finance markets: A blind spot for financial regulators?

8 June 2023

Promise Not Fulfilled: FinTech, Data Privacy, and the GDPR

Data have become a critical resource for many business models as a result of digitalization and globalization. Individuals disclose personal information intentionally and unintentionally over the Internet and when using...

Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact?

Climate change is increasingly seen as a major societal problem. To address the problem, enormous financial resources are required and the capital market plays a central role in the financing...

12 November 2021

Christoph Siemroth

Lars Hornuf

Disclosure Deregulation of Quarterly Reporting

The regulatory consensus on disclosure is crumbling. While the academic literature has widely documented beneficial effects of increased disclosures, authorities have begun to retrench disclosure requirements amid criticisms of cost...

The Relevance of Investor Rights in Equity Crowdfunding

An often-advocated, important benefit of equity crowdfunding (ECF) is that entrepreneurs do not need to give up as much control as professional investors such as business angels (BAs) and venture...

FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany

Since 25 May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been directly applicable in all EU member states. Our recently published book, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany deals...

4 February 2020

Lars Hornuf

Gregor Dorfleitner

Initial Coin Offerings, Information Disclosure, and Fraud

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, which until today remains the most widely used digital currency worldwide, digital currencies have gained in popularity. More recently, tokens based on different...

Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Survival

Today, start-ups often obtain financing via the Internet. Under the equity crowdfunding (‘ECF’) model, non-sophisticated investors make many small contributions to a company and ultimately expect financial compensation. While only...

11 October 2017

Lars Hornuf

Matthias Schmitt

The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants

In recent years, digitization and the Internet have turned traditional segments of the financial sector upside down. When it comes to financing a business project or a fancy wedding, fintech...

18 January 2017

Lars Hornuf

Christian Haddad

Financial Contracting in Crowdinvesting: Lessons from the German Market

Much has been written about the regulation of crowdinvesting, and what determines funding success. However, relatively little is known about the contracts that form the basis of crowdinvesting. This is...

Certification arbitrage in digital finance markets: A blind spot for financial regulators?

Promise Not Fulfilled: FinTech, Data Privacy, and the GDPR

Do Retail Investors Value Environmental Impact?

Disclosure Deregulation of Quarterly Reporting

The Relevance of Investor Rights in Equity Crowdfunding

FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany

Initial Coin Offerings, Information Disclosure, and Fraud

Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Survival

The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants

Financial Contracting in Crowdinvesting: Lessons from the German Market

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