scholarly journals How to regulate bitcoin? Decentralized regulation for a decentralized cryptocurrency

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Nabilou

Abstract Bitcoin is a distributed system. The dilemma it poses to the legal systems is that it is hardly possible to regulate a distributed network in a centralized fashion, as decentralized cryptocurrencies are antithetical to the existing centralized structure of monetary and financial regulation. This article proposes a more nuanced policy recommendation for regulatory intervention in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, which relies on a decentralized regulatory architecture built upon the existing regulatory infrastructure and makes use of the existing and emerging middlemen. It argues that instead of regulating the technology or the cryptocurrencies at the code or protocol layer, the regulation should target their use-cases. Such a regulatory strategy can be implemented through directing the edicts of regulation towards the middlemen and can be enforced by the existing financial market participants and traditional gatekeepers such as banks, payment service providers and exchanges, as well as large and centralized node operators and miners.

2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Charles Kombo Okioga

Capital Market Authority in Kenya is in a development phase in order to be effective in the regulation of the financial markets. The market participants and the regulators are increasingly adopting international standards in order to make the capital markets in sync with those of developed markets. New products are being introduced and new business lines are being established. The Capital Markets Authority (Regulator) is constantly reviewing existing regulations and recommending changes to regulate the market properly. Business lines and activities are being harmonized by market participants to provide a one stop solution in order to meet the financial and securities services needs of the investors. The convergence of business lines and activities of market intermediaries gives rise to the diversity of a firm’s business operations to meet multiplicity of regulations that its activities are subject to. The methodology used in this study was designed to examine the relationship between capital markets Authority effective regulation and the performance of the financial markets. The study used correlation design, the study population consisted of 30 employees in financial institutions regulated by Capital Markets Authority and 80 investors. The study found out that effective financial market regulation has a significant relationship with the financial market performance indicated by (r=0.571, p<0.01) and (r=0.716, p≤0.01, the study recommended a further research on the factors that hinder effective financial regulation by the Capital Markets Authority.


Author(s):  
Mark W.Wiggins ◽  
Jaime Auton ◽  
Daniel Sturman

Situation assessment is a critical skill amongst electricity distribution controllers but can be difficult to assess in practice. In the present research, we adapted a psychometric approach based on the principle that expert situation assessment engages cue-based associations from memory. Using consortium norming, we acquired performance data from 320 network control operators for five network control-related tasks that comprised the electricity network service provider edition of the EXPERT Intensive Skills Evaluation (EXPERTise 2.0) software. Operators were distributed across 11 Distributed Network Service Providers (DNSP), with data collected over three phases. Data were examined across the three phases of data collection and suggest that DNSPs can monitor the situation assessment of network controllers at an individual and at an organisational level, affording the opportunity to identify changes in performance and implement remedial strategies as appropriate.


Author(s):  
Roman Sharavara

An analysis of the applied forms of cross-sectoral approach to the organization of supervision and regulation of the financial sector of different types of national economies, including the Ukrainian one, is presented. Particular attention is paid to the role of the central bank in improving the coordination of regulators of the national financial market. It is determined that effective financial supervision, in the modern sense, should combine the performance of three key functions: macroprudential supervision, microprudential supervision and business integrity supervision. With technological development, the integration of financial sector segments and the emergence of complex financial products, the segmental core of regulation has been lost. One of the main current problems is to identify the risks posed by integrated financial instruments, financial corporations take them on, and also track the ways in which they spread. Institutional and sectoral models of financial supervision are analyzed. A common feature of institutional and functional approaches is the growing need to improve the coordination of national financial regulators and comprehensively increase its efficiency. The expediency of creating a macro-regulator in the conditions of modern economic systems is substantiated. The possibility of consolidated supervision is revealed, which eliminates interdepartmental conflict of interests, better control of transactions and cash flows. Peculiarities of macroregulators functioning in Great Britain, Australia, and the Netherlands have been studied. Developing a unified approach can increase the speed of response to identified threats and its adequacy, as well as reduce regulatory arbitrage by supervised organizations. The mega-regulator is able to provide due attention to the control of the integrity of business by financial market participants, protection of interests and awareness of market participants and consumers of financial services in comparison with the functional and institutional models. The priority system of national regulation of the financial sector for the Ukrainian economy is determined.


Author(s):  
Alan N. Rechtschaffen

Capital markets provide enterprises with the opportunity to access capital to maintain their level of business activity. Therefore, ensuring the stability of the capital markets and preventing systemic failure are paramount concerns of the Federal Reserve and other financial market regulators. Access to capital markets is facilitated through the use of financial instruments that allow risk to be negotiated among market participants. When using financial instruments to achieve goals, a corporation must be aware of several considerations: the value of the asset underlying the financial instrument, duties or obligations the corporation owes to the other party to the contract, the implications and “worst case scenario” of the performance of the financial instrument, the risk of the transaction, and how the specific transaction can achieve the corporation's goals. This chapter discusses goal-oriented investing, achieving investment goals, and managing risk.


2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 1073-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark T. Bradshaw

ABSTRACT: Changes in regulations governing capital markets always provide a rich setting for archival researchers to examine how such changes affect the behavior of market participants. Barniv et al. (2009; hereafter, BHMT) and Chen and Chen (2009; hereafter CC) examine the impacts of recently enacted regulations aimed at curbing perceived abused by sell-side analysts. There were no less than six significant regulations issued between 2000 and 2003 that affected the activities of analysts. BHMT and CC emphasize different regulations, but both predict that analysts' recommendation will be less biased as a result of the collective regulatory changes. The evidence in both studies is strong and convincing that the association between analysts' earnings forecasts and stock recommendations has changed, consistent with analysts' personal conflicts of interest having less impact on their analyses. However, the attribution of what regulation, if any, effected this change is less clear. Collectively, the similarities and differences in the studies provide a nice setting to understand how different authors approach the same research question.


Author(s):  
Mccormick Roger ◽  
Stears Chris

This chapter first discusses the origins of the financial crisis, highlighting practice of ‘packaging and selling’ credit risk by financial market participants that led up to the crisis. It argues that although, in retrospect, many aspects of that practice look very bad indeed, the idea that banks might originate a credit exposure and then transfer the credit risk attached to it to a third party was, before the financial crisis, considered to be part and parcel of sound risk management. The discussion then turns to credit-rating agencies. Analysis of the financial crisis and ‘what went wrong’ has shown that rating agencies were too generous with their rating of many of the structured products that contributed to the collapse.


Author(s):  
Richard Deeg ◽  
Elliot Posner

Historical institutionalism features extensively in the study of banking and financial regulation in Europe. This chapter reviews scholarship that explicitly, implicitly or inadvertently draws heavily on that tradition’s central tenets. The authors find that historical institutionalism can help explain the emergence, persistence, and evolution of distinct kinds of financial systems in Europe, as well as the pattern and effects of European financial integration. However, they find there is considerable untapped potential for historical institutionalism as an analytical approach for studying European financial market integration and regulation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 401-403 ◽  
pp. 1023-1026
Author(s):  
Jie Sun ◽  
Jun Zhang ◽  
An Bing Zhao

With the development of network technology, distributed system has been widely used in the area of measurement and control. This paper introduces a kind of distributed network spectrometer. The proposed method based on embedded technology and GPRS network technology, which achieve the real-time detection of targets from multiple locations.


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