March 07, 2024
Financial Institutions’ Net Income Drops 43.9% Amid FDIC’s Special Assessment

Financial institutions’ net income dropped 43.9% in the fourth quarter of 2023. The net income of commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) totaled $38.4 billion...

March 07, 2024
Real Estate Antitrust Lawsuit Rocks John’s Island

In a legal battle unfolding within the exclusive enclave of John’s Island, a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit has brought to light allegations of professional sabotage and unfair trade practices. At the...

March 06, 2024
Report: Antitrust Concerns Trigger Short Selling of Zillow Stock

In the volatile landscape of residential real estate, one of the industry’s giants, Zillow, finds itself in the crosshairs of short seller Spruce Point Capital. The investment firm has taken...

March 04, 2024
Can Convenience Turn Digital Bills Into Digital Payments?

The business-to-business (B2B) payments landscape has undergone two-plus decades of digitization and innovation. And the particularly rapid acceleration of that digitization over just the past few years has wrought significant...

February 28, 2024
Coverdash Raises $13.5 Million to Expand Embedded Insurance Offering

Coverdash has raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to expand its embedded insurance offering. The company will use the new funding to expand its embedded partner network, grow its...

February 28, 2024
Are Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts a Smart Option for Global Financing?

Proponents of blockchain’s underlying technical capabilities are determined to shake off its cryptocurrency-centric associations. In large part by finding historical opportunity areas within the traditional financial sector that digital assets...

February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms and Antitrust Enforcement: Sandboxes to the Rescue?

Pricing algorithms make it easier for businesses dynamically to respond to market tendencies and set prices in an instant manner. In doing so, they can contribute to more efficient price...

February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms in Antitrust’s Sights?

Pricing algorithms have captured antitrust scholars’ attention for a decade now. A key problem: Whether antitrust doctrine could adequately handle the situation where several competing firms independently delegate their market...

February 28, 2024
Pricing Algorithms — What Role for Regulation?

The rapid spread of pricing algorithms in e-commerce markets has raised alarms about their potential for anticompetitive abuse. Enforcers and policy-makers have been concerned for some time about the possibility...