Abstract We study the extent of fraud in initial coin offerings (ICOs), and whether information disclosure prior to issuance predicts fraud. document different types fraud, that fraudulent ICOs are on average much larger than sample average. Issuers who disclose their code GitHub more likely be targeted by phishing hacker activities, which suggests there risks related disclosing code. Generally...

E-commerce and FinTech are currently booming in China. The growing consumer market is accompanied by internet finance, which consumers can easily borrow money from financial institutions online. As a result, the risks of concern to government regulatory bodies. Consequently, securitization China seeing rapid growth that could affect stability. Applying emerging technologies might be an effectiv...