Since the record-breaking sale of ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ by Mike Winkelmann (better known as Beeple) most people in the art market know what an NFT (non-fungible token) is and that there is significant potential to make money with this ‘artistic movement’. ‘Everydays’...

In theory, under the premise of freedom of will, insurers in Belgium are permitted to employ artificial intelligence (‘AI’) and big data analytics for segmentation purposes, enabling them to determine the ‘claims probability’ (i.e., the likelihood and severity of potential claims) for...

French abstract: Les règlements du Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements (CIRDI) ont évolué à plusieurs reprises au cours de leurs presque soixante ans d’existence. Cet article se penche sur l’évolution la plus récente, à savoir les...

We provide an overview of crypto-related scams, including investment scams, Ponzi schemes, and more recently, rug pulls that are commonly seen in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects. We then discuss data sources for studying Initial Coin Offering (ICO) scams, before examining the case of...

This handbook provides an overview of various criminal activities related to cryptocurrencies, including investment scams, Ponzi schemes, rug pulls, ransomware attacks, money laundering, and darknet markets. We discuss the need for user protection and education, centralized entities and...

A central issue in evaluating the effects of firm-level corporate governance (FLCG) is how to measure it. We focus here on emerging markets (EMs). One common approach to measuring FLCG uses country-specific (CSIs), tailored to each country’s laws and institutions. Several studies report that...

This paper considers the necessity for the Australian insolvent trading prohibition. The recommendations for the provisions were couched around notions of (i) fairness, (ii) "effective regulations" and an "ordered legal process"; and (iii) a practical and convenient support of ‘‘the economic...

This year marks the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the implementation of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) and the 80th anniversary of the implantation of its predecessor, the Bankruptcy Act 1924 (Cth). Notwithstanding prior recommendations that Australia's personal bankruptcy regime be merged...