The token sale genie is not going back into the bottle, and many predict torrents of self - described security tokens next year, particularly once a sufficient
number of alternative trading systems have been launched.
I also think we will see a growing
number of alternative trading systems and platforms on which tokens can be traded, which will give them greater liquidity.»
Not exact matches
It modeled the implications for the company
of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a
number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and
trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.
This is evident in a
number of developments, including: increased demand for higher - risk assets; the increase in «carry
trades» — a form
of gearing where funds are borrowed short - term at low interest rates and invested in higher - yielding assets, often in other countries; growth in
alternative investment vehicles such as hedge funds; and growth in
alternative investment strategies such as selling embedded options (see Box A).
China's clampdown on cryptocurrencies and the subsequent
trading halts on a
number of crypto exchanges have caught hundreds
of mainland investors unaware and unprepared, driving some entrepreneurs to seek
alternative listing
of their tokens in Hong Kong to raise funds.
14 %
of respondents believe that insider
trading practices in the
alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out
of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 %
of respondents felt this way; 37 %
of respondents think the news
of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider
trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 %
of respondents in 2016; and 49 %
of respondents believe the influx
of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the
number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider
trading, a significant increase from the 36 %
of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.
Nonetheless, there is a consensus among members that as long as money continues to pour into
alternative investments and the
number of funds keeps rising there will always be someone desperate enough to try insider
trading as a way
of differentiating themselves.
Besides the obvious, investing in a certain company's stocks and
trading, there are a
number of alternative ways that can be conducted when
trading to establishing a strategy, with the possibility
of making a profit with a company's shares as an investment choice.
Not long after the book was e-published, a
number of other brokerages (e.g., Scotia) came out with free - to -
trade ETFs, presenting a competitive
alternative to TD Waterhouse.
HSI is aiming to work with the South Korean government to end the
trade for good, working with the growing
number of farmers who want to transition to
alternative livelihoods.
Congress (to the extent it did assess policy
alternatives to cap and
trade), as well as the broader community
of analysts and observers in the late 2000s, raised a
number of substantive questions about the merits
of this policy instrument as a means for responding to a major environmental policy challenge
of the sort posed by climate change:
Conducted research on catalogs, telephone directories and
trade publications to solicit prices from
alternative sources and increase
number of prospective vendors.