The process of mining through complex algorithms makes Bitcoin a type of cryptocurrency and in fact it’s just one of many popular cryptocurrencies, with some well known alternatives being Litecoin, Etherium, and Dash. These all have different rules and different pros and cons for example, Litecoin is designed to be faster to mine and trade, while Etherium’s growing popularity means that there’s a growing ecosystem around the currency. But these aren’t the only uses for blockchain technology.
Parking space, not politics, is what usually gets my thoroughly decent, middle class Istanbul neighborhood in a twist. But Sunday morning, the Burberry set trendy teenagers in Ray ban Aviators, pensioners in sun hats, young professionals and entire families turned revolutionary. Waving red and white Turkish flags and chanting “Turkey will not become Iran,” they streamed up the road by the hundreds to join the city’s biggest secularist rally in recent memory.
In EMEA, the payment method is already more established and accounted for 6% of 2019 e comm payments and Worldpay expects it to reach 10% penetration by 2023. Consumers spent $590B on e comm in 2019. Census Bureau, the first 3 quarters of 2020 had 16.3% of retail sales ex auto penetration through e comm, compared to 12.5% in the same period LY, and e comm dollars spent grew +34.2%.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of compliance with, and disclosure of, good corporate governance (CG) practices among UK publicly listed firms and consequently ascertain whether board characteristics and ownership structure variables can explain observable differences in the extent of voluntary CG compliance and disclosure practices.Design/methodology/approach: This study uses one of the largest data sets to date on compliance and disclosure of CG practices from 2008 to 2013 containing 120 CG provisions drawn from the 2010 UK Combined Code relating to 100 UK listed firms to conduct multiple regression analyses of the determinants of voluntary CG disclosures. A number of additional estimations, including two stage least squares, fixed effects and lagged structures, are conducted to address the potential endogeneity issue and test the robustness of the findings.Findings: The results suggest that there is a substantial variation in the levels of compliance with, and disclosure of, good CG practices among the sampled UK firms. Additionally, the results indicate that block ownership and managerial ownership negatively affect voluntary CG compliance and disclosure practices.