Chasing The Tape

An examination of regulation and use of information in capital markets, offering comparisons across different jurisdictions, regulated entities, and financial instruments. Financial information is a both a public resource and a commodity that market participants produce and distribute in connection with other financial products and services. Legislators, regulators, and other policy makers must therefore balance the goal of making information transparent, accessible, and useful for the collective benefit of society against the need to maintain appropriate incentives for information originators and intermediaries. In Chasing the Tape, Onnig Dombalagian examines the policy objectives and regulatory tools that shape the information production chain in capital markets in the United States, the European Union, and other jurisdictions. His analysis offers a unique cross section of capital market infrastructure, spanning different countries, regulated entities, and financial instruments. Dombalagian uses four key categories of information—issuer information, market information, information used in credit analysis, and benchmarks—to survey the market forces and regulatory regimes that govern the flow of information in capital markets. He considers the similarities and differences in regulatory aims and strategies across categories, and discusses alternative approaches proposed or adopted by scholars and policy makers. Dombalagian argues that the long-term regulatory challenges raised by economic globalization and advanced information technology will require policy makers to decouple information policy in capital markets from increasingly arbitrary historical classifications and jurisdictional boundaries.

Amelia City, Iowa. Like any fair-sized American town, the folks of Amelia know plenty of folklore and urban legends surrounding the place they call home. Unlike elsewhere, however, folks here quietly understand something more. They know that in Amelia City, those myths have a habit of being true more often than not. They know that there really is something going bump in the night—and it just might rip them apart if it finds them. Discover just some of those legends in this collection, which includes entries from the acclaimed Roads Through Amelia series by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy.

Does the Mothman exist? This title explains what a cryptid is, then examines the Mothman, including supposed sightings both modern and historic, scientists who research to determine whether the Mothman is real, and a museum that displays Mothman artifacts. Includes a map of Mothman sightings. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

"The complete book on cloisonné enameling . . . encyclopedic in scope." — Jewelers' Circular-Keystone. This critically acclaimed book discusses tools, materials, and processes for creating lovely pendants, rings, pins, buckles, and more. 164 illustrations.

Shares the six key principles of site design and support practices: simplicity, clarity, generality, automation, communication, and basics first. This book provides advice on topics which include the key elements your networks/systems need that will make all other services run better, and building and running reliable, scalable services.