Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) provide a clean opportunity and rich data to study the contribution of analysts to the … functioning of capital markets. The assessments of freelancing ICO analysts vary in quality and exhibit biases due to the … reciprocal interactions of analysts with ICO team members. Ratings predict ICO success, but imperfectly. Even favorably rated …

reciprocal network of ICO members and analysts. Ratings predict ICO success, but highly imperfectly so. Favorably rated ICOs tend … to fail when more ratings reciprocate prior ratings. Failure despite strong ratings is also frequent when analysts have a … literature on equity analysts and rating agencies. …

. Overall, our results suggest analysts' intermediary role in ICOs, a type of direct placement in the FinTech era …Certification by online analysts and early investors can generate excitement among potential token investors, leading …

The rise of Fintech in the past decade has received growing scholarly attention. This paper surveys Fintech … Fintech and accumulate knowledge in the fields of text analytics, algorithmic trading, Fintech lending, blockchains … research agendas in Fintech are suggested …