Bloomberg.com, reporting on The Merge, consulted Johnson professor and Fintech at Cornell faculty director Will Cong on the implications of this “next generation of Ethereum.” Noting that individuals need only load three programs and stake their own ether to activate validator software, Cong predicts the move will make entry more accessible. Read more here.
Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present. More webinars in this monthly series can be found here.
The European Financial Management Association has given its 2022 Best Paper Award to Value Premium, Network Adoption, and Factor Pricing of Crypto Assets, co-authored by Cornell’s Will Cong and Andrew Karolyi with Tsinghua University’s Ke Tang and Weiyi Zhao.
Staking, Token Pricing, and Crypto Carry by Cong with Zhiheng He and Ke Tang, received the 18th Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD) Best Paper Award.
Also this month, Tax-Loss Harvesting with Cryptocurrencies, authored by Cong with Wayne R. Landsman, Edward L. Maydew, and Daniel Rabetti, received the best paper prize from the 15th International Risk Management Conference as well as the CIRF-PBFJ Research Excellence Award at the 8th China International Risk Forum.
The Cornell FinTech Club is the first all-encompassing, undergraduate-led club that aims to create spaces and opportunities for students in fintech through weekly discussions, an education series, and corporate speaker events. Club events are open to undergraduate and graduate students, to help foster a community for fintech at Cornell University.
Fintech at Cornell, in collaboration with eCornell, will host this Keynote webinar, featuring Chris Giancarlo, former Chairman of the US CFTC and current senior counsel at Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, in conversation with Johnson Graduate School of Management professor Maureen O’Hara, moderated by Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer of (Fintech at Cornell sponsor) Broadridge. Register here.
Fintech at Cornell Faculty Director Lin William Cong has received the following honors for his work this month:
The National Bureau of Economic Research has announced its latest slate of research associates, which includes Cornell SC Johnson College of Business professor Will Cong. Cong, who serves as Faculty Director of Fintech at Cornell, will join NBER’s Asset Pricing program. Faculty research fellows are chosen by the NBER president. Read more here.
“Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren invited Susan Joseph, executive director of fintech at Cornell, and Cleve Mesidor, executive director of the Blockchain Foundation to provide insights on why crypto is not yet a diverse industry and steps to improve access and education for all. Listen to the conversation here.
On Friday, September 24, 2021, Fintech at Cornell hosted an illuminating and far-reaching discussion on the future of financial systems in the digital currency world.
Watch Diversity in Digital Currency, with SC Johnson College dean Andrew Karolyi, Fintech at Cornell executive director Susan Joseph, and Circle’s Dante Disparte.
Email fintech@cornell.edu for more information.
SHA’s entrepreneurial bent and a fascination with Bitcoin led a pair of Hotelies to found a university-wide blockchain club for undergraduates.
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Johnson faculty created new courses designed to equip future business leaders with strategic, targeted analytical and leadership skills.
Johnson MBA programs recently received top recognition for strengths in finance, fintech, and tech-sector business.
Present Value interviews Eswar Prasad and Andrew Karolyi, Cornell economics professors with expertise in emerging markets and finance.
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Cryptocurrencies aside, blockchain technology is set to transform a host of industries beyond finance.
Present Value podcast talks with Cornell Law School's Saule Omarova about financial oversight, Dodd-Frank, and implications of an emerging fintech sector.
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According to Eswar Prasad, the popularity of digital currencies could erode the last vestiges of financial privacy online.
Read Prasad’s April 1, 2022 piece in the Washington Post here.
In this podcast episode, Will Cong, associate professor of finance and Rudd Family Professor of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, talks fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, token, and bitcoin pricing.
Luo Zuo, associate professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, explores how electronic-payment services may operate under several business models and use multiple accounting methods.
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