Archive: 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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WeWork Announces Changes To Its Governance
WeWork outlined sweeping changes in its governance ahead of its trading debut towards the end of September. Yahoo Finance’s Emily McCormick reports. John Jacobs, Georgetown Center Executive Director for Financial Markets and Policy, joins Yahoo Finance’s Julie Hyman, Adam Shapiro, and Pras Subramanian to further discuss.
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MBA Program Announces Fellowships in Entrepreneurship and Fintech
Two new fellowship opportunities highlight how Georgetown McDonough continues to infuse its MBA program with opportunities to gain hands-on experience in a variety of industries. This fall, the sc
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5 Things To Watch For As You Read WeWork’s IPO Filing
As what may become the second-largest IPO this year behind much-plagued Uber, Reena Aggarwal, professor of finance and director of the Georgetown Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University, believes WeWork needs to avoid Uber’s prospectus’ mistakes.
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Michael Psaros Receives AHEPA’s Socrates Award, National Herald
[Michael Psaros] received a BS/BA in Finance from Georgetown University and attended Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan and serves on the Board of Directors of Georgetown University. He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Advisors of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown University Center for Financial Markets and Policy. He and his spouse created The Michael and Robin Psaros Endowed Chair in Business Administration at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in 2013.
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