After a slow 2023, exchange-traded fund listings are revitalizing

Published: 17 April 2024

In 2023, more than 120 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were delisted in Canada—more than four times as many as in an average year. Even so, there was still a net gain in the overall number of ETFs,...

Blockchain 101 Talk

Friday, March 24, 2023 12:30to13:30

Have you always wanted to know what blockchain technology is about? Do you want to know how it works and how it could find applications across different industries?/desautelsCategory: Desautels...

Interaction with major crypto-asset platforms could benefit both CBDCs and cryptocurrencies

Published: 25 May 2023

Cryptocurrencies are an unregulated, ethically dubious financial instrument used by criminal organizations, terrorists and war criminals, writes Andy Holloway in the FP Investor Newsletter. But...

The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics - Brown Bag Colloquium

Friday, January 27, 2023 12:30to14:00

The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics presents: “How I Engage ‘Ethics' in the Classroom”/desautelsCategory: Desautels Faculty of Management

Central bank digital currencies could help improve financial inclusion

Published: 21 December 2022

People are using cash less, and plastic more. But this presents a problem for unbanked and underbanked people. There are still a significant number of Canadians who don’t have a bank account. They...

Official launch of the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics

Published: 23 November 2022

On November 14, the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics hosted students, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and friends of McGill Desautels for the official launch of the Centre....

Laidley Centre for Business Ethics will help foster ethical leaders for the challenges of the future

21 Nov 2022

Elizabeth Holmes sold investors on a vision of a machine that could run hundreds of blood tests with a single drop of blood. It is a tantalizing dream that would have revolutionized health care,...

Delve: Why digital currencies could change the future of central banking

Published: 8 November 2022

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) represent a possible next step in the technological evolution of banking and the financial intermediation sector, with advances in privacy, fraud protection,...

Alberta politician who is spreading conspiracy theories could become premier

Published: 16 September 2022

Danielle Smith is running for the leadership of Alberta’s United Conservative Party, and could become Alberta’s next premier. But Smith is campaigning on a platform that includes internet...

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