Archive: Center for Financial Markets and Policy
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New York Stock Exchange Floor Reopens, but not as you Know it
The New York Stock Exchange trading floor reopens on Tuesday with strict new rules. WSJ’s Mark Garrison explains what’s at stake for traders as they return to work at one of the world’s last remaining trading floors during the coronavirus pandemic. [Watch an interview with Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance and director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy].
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Highlights from Center for Financial Markets Webinar on COVID-19 Volatility
The Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business quickly assembled a group of panelists well-equipped to provide their views on the securities markets during the midst of the market turmoil caused by COVID-19. The Center hosted the webinar on Thursday, March 26, which produced lively discussions and important insights. ETF BILD’s co-founders attended the webinar safely from their homes, including John Jacobs, who is the Center’s Executive Director. Key topics that were explored include reduced trading hours, circuit breakers and limit up/limit down, short sales ban and electronic trading.
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Should the Financial Markets Close? Georgetown Center Hosts Expert Panel on Market Value Amid COVID-19 Crisis
The continued spread of COVID-19 throughout the world has posed serious uncertainty and volatility in global financial markets in recent weeks, prompting debate about whether markets should remain op
Categories: COVID-19, News Story
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In a First, NYSE Will Close its Trading Floor and Conduct Remote Trading Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
“Their orders are getting executed electronically,” said Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance and director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy.
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2020 Could Be The Year For Blockchain Education To Take Off
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business is committing to its tradition of innovation by supporting various blockchain initiatives, including the annual international Blockchain Summit. Its Center for Financial Markets and Policy is also regularly publishing analysis and white papers that are related to blockchain’s influence on global finance.
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NYSE Group President Stacey Cunningham Speaks at Georgetown’s Financial Markets Quality Conference
Stacey Cunningham, president of the NYSE Group, was a featured speaker at the 2019 Financial Markets Quality Conference at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business on Nov. 5, presented by the Center
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Can Uber And Lyft Survive If California’s Worker Protections Go Nationwide?
“Right now they are both in the mode of ‘let’s capture market share,’ and the bottom line is less important than capturing revenue and market-share growth, but once you become a public company and you have to release your earnings every quarter, people will be very closely monitoring your earnings,” Reena Aggarwal, a professor of finance and director of the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business told MarketWatch in May, regarding to the companies initial public offerings. “There is going to be a lot of focus on that. They will have to raise prices, because of the pressures.”
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‘The Cheap Money Era’: 2019’s IPOs Have Delivered Some Harsh Lessons To Venture Capital
“I think that it will impact the valuations in the private markets also—the euphoria that has been there will [be] cut back,” says Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance and director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University.
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CME Group CEO Terry Duffy Speaks at Georgetown McDonough
Terry Duffy, chairman and CEO of CME Group, spoke to students on Sept. 23 in an event sponsored by the Center for Financial Markets and Policy.
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IPO Delays: Why Unicorns Push Back Public Debuts
“That’s why Google went public when they did,” says John Jacobs, executive director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy. “The thing that forced Google to go public didn’t force Uber and those guys to go public. So a lot of these companies are delayed in the private market much, much longer.”
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