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2 unusual facts about Arbitrage


International telecommunications routes

Arbitrage is routing traffic via an intermediate country to take advantage of the differences in settlement rates.

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz

Returning to world of high finance despite a 1992 conviction of operating a brokerage with a revoked licence, Martínez de Hoz became a member of the board of directors of two Arbitrage houses: Rohm Group and the Banco General de Negocios ("General Business Bank").


ARBS

Arbs – a particular arbitrage arising on betting markets

Caissa

Caissa Capital, a hedge fund based on volatility arbitrage in the late 1990s

Cash and carry

Basis trading, a form of arbitrage in which securities are bought in the cash market and a short in a forward contract

Global workforce

One potential outcome of widespread global labor arbitrage, then, is exploitation and even death of workers in countries that have the fewest protections.

Great Recoinage

The Great Recoinage of 1696, which was conducted to address problems with the silver coins then in currency, such as clipping and arbitrage.

Guillermo Billinghurst

It established that before a plebiscite could be held between both countries, an arbitrage would first be requested to the Queen of Spain, María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena (1858–1929) to determine the conditions of the vote.

Jurisdictional arbitrage

A notable proponent and practitioner of jurisdictional arbitrage is Canadian businessman and perpetual traveler Calvin Ayre, founder of online gambling consortium Bodog Entertainment Group.

Kaveh Alamouti

During the days as depicted in Michael Lewis's book Liar's Poker, Alamouti was in charge of Proprietary Arbitrage trading at Solomon Brothers Int.

Ligue internationale de la paix

The Luxembourg crisis was peacefully resolved in 1867 by the Treaty of London but in 1870 the Franco-Prussian War could not be prevented so the league dissolved and refounded as the Société française pour l'arbitrage entre nations (League of arbitration between the Nations) in the same year.

Money Economics

Money Economics published an article on August 2, 2007 on App-o-rama, analyzing the maximum actual profit one can obtain from the interest rate arbitrage.


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