Cyber-attacks are epidemic and getting worse. Lawyers need to understand cyber insurance for their clients and their own law firms. A data breach is a nightmare. Law firms have a special exposure when hacked because of clients files with personal and other sensitive information.There is limited...

The spread of the Internet in all areas of our lives has brought many eases and benefits for human life. Along with the development of technology, two basic issues such as security and privacy increase the importance day by day as the subjects that both individuals, institutions and governments...

Using novel measures of cybersecurity risk, we document that low cybersecurity risk firms are more likely to be involved in M&A transactions. Mergers are significantly less likely to be withdrawn if the target has a low cybersecurity risk profile. Merger premium are higher for mergers involving...

In this paper, we examine whether and how firms’ brand capital is hurt by cybersecurity breaches. Our difference-in-differences analysis based on matched pairs indicates that firms suffering cybersecurity breaches are associated with more canceled trademarks, fewer trademark registrations, and...

Blockchain technology has taken off rapidly in the last decade, as blockchain- based applications have expanded across sectors and acquired substantial global user support. This rise has been accelerated in the domain of cryptocurrencies, as one of blockchains’ most famous (or infamous)...

Cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance have grown considerably since the publication of the white paper on bitcoin in 2009. This article presents an overview of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and their applications, explaining the spirit of the enterprise and how it compares with...

With the rise of information revolutions such as mobile internet, cloud computing, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, the banking industry is ushering in new opportunities and severe challenges. It inspired us to develop proposed research concepts to...

Bitcoin introduces a new type of digital currency that does not rely on a central system to process and maintain transactions. Benefiting from the concept of a decentralized ledger, users who do not know or trust each other can still conduct transactions in a peer-to-peer manner. Recently,...

Blockchain Technology is the emerging component of IT and Computing and is a kind of encrypted record of data works on distributed database. This is furthermore dealt with the data related to the transaction, contract, independent record, etc. Digital ledger is important and also applicable in...

Member-states within the European Union regulate their financial industries through multiple agencies and third-party entities under treaties and agreements signed by the European Central Bank leaders. The member-states often hold international contracts that vary from country to country in...