The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), once hailed as a visionary free-trade project, threatens to disintegrate over massive failures of public diplomacy and a sudden surge of popular resistance against private investment arbitration, at least in the form of Investor-State...

Clearing and settlement of international securities transactions for indirectly held securities presents major challenges as the immense potential of blockchain technology creates the possibility of a tamper-proof consolidated audit trail, of almost infinitesimal transaction cost, and increased...