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Better Markets Analysis

April 10, 2024

Kalshi’s Dangerous Efforts to Allow Gambling on U.S. Elections

For more than a year, Better Markets has closely watched KalshiEX, LLC’s (‘Kalshi’) attempt to get the CFTC to allow traders to bet on U.S. elections via so-called “event contracts.” Based on…

Analysis

April 09, 2024

AI in the Financial Markets: Potential Benefits, Major Risks, and Regulators Trying to Keep Up

The Rapid Evolution of AI. The field of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is exploding. As the headlines proclaim, the race is on in the private sector to be the most successful AI company,…

Analysis

April 02, 2024

Standing up to the Lawless Crypto Industry

For years now, too many leaders on Wall Street and Washington either looked the other way or blindly supported the crypto industry as it worked relentlessly to infiltrate our financial system and…

Consumer Protection

March 25, 2024

Standing up to the Bank Lobbyists on Capital

Banking regulators have proposed new, long overdue, capital requirements which will only be applicable to less than 40 of the largest bank holding companies in the country and none of the more than…

Banking

March 14, 2024

Better Markets’ Work Addressing Climate Change in Finance

BETTER MARKETS’ WORK ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE IN FINANCE The reality of climate change is indisputable—average global temperatures are rising, as are sea levels, threatening coastal cities and communities. It’s been made clear…

Analysis

February 16, 2024

Better Markets’ Work Addressing Racial Economic Inequality in Finance

Generations of discrimination and mistreatment informed by racist beliefs, narratives, laws, policies, and practices have contributed to deeply entrenched structural inequities within the financial services sector that continue to profoundly undermine the…

Analysis

January 31, 2024

Better Markets Case Tracker

Important Cases in the Federal Courts TEXAS DISTRICT COURT UPHOLDS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL) RULE CLARIFYING ABILITY OF FIDUCIARIES TO CONSIDER ESG FACTORS IN INVESTMENT DECISIONS – State of Utah, et al. v.

Legal

January 25, 2024

ROBINHOOD/GAMESTOP/CITADEL: MAKING YOUR VOICE HEARD

The frenzied trading in GameStop, AMC, Bed Bath & Beyond, and other “meme stocks” in early 2021 resulted in lots of media coverage, hearings on the Hill, and international attention. The events…

Analysis

October 12, 2023

RAP Sheet Report 2023: Wall Street’s Ongoing Crime Spree

For years, Better Markets has been tracking the enforcement actions against the nation’s six largest banks (the “Six Megabanks”), along with some of the most prominent civil cases. The number of actions…

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