Author Archives: Lawrence Baxter

Comments to the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee under the Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

By | May 13, 2020

Courtesy of Lawrence Baxter, Mercy B. DeMenno,  Lee Reiners, and Joe Smith The following letter was submitted by the Global Financial Markets Center on May 9, 2020, to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to the CFTC’s request for public comment on topics and issues being addressed by the Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee… Read More »

Blockchain is Overhyped

By | April 5, 2018

Courtesy of Lawrence Baxter, Ryan Clements, and John Lightbourne The buzz surrounding Blockchain, the distributed ledger infrastructure upon which Bitcoin operates, and how it will transform commerce while reducing transaction costs is at a crescendo. As John Oliver recently hilariously lampooned, many investors assign instant value to any firm with Blockchain in its name, mirroring… Read More »

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