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Grand Piano or Grand Scam: Are Piano Buyers Overpaying for Prestige?

Key Points Fideres's investigation finds that Steinway’s dominance in the market for professional grand pianos might be attributable to anticompetitive

Goldman Sachs, Three Years Later: What Changed—and What Didn’t

In an earlier publication, Fideres analyzed how defendants’ strategies at the 10b5 class certification stage developed following the 2021 and

Coinbase’s Castle: Anticompetitive Tactics or Clever Business?

Key Points In June 2023, the SEC published a complaint against Coinbase, a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that controls 76% of

Supreme Court’s Goldman Ruling Shifts Landscape for Securities Class Actions

Key Points Fideres has analyzed a sample of 10b-5 filings to determine the impact of the Supreme Court’s 2021 Goldman ruling.

December 18, 2023

Prepayment Energy Meters Disproportionately Impact Vulnerable UK Households

Key Points Fideres’s original investigation uncovers widespread discriminatory conduct in the market for household gas/electricity - affecting 2 million minority

December 12, 2023

Goodwill Gone? Accounting Practices Under the Microscope

Key Points This year’s banking crisis involved four major fire-sale deals at steep discount prices which resulted in aggregate net

November 8, 2023

Digital Gatekeeping: How Reddit’s API Changes May Undermine Third-Party Innovation

Key Points Regulars and pundits are increasingly recognizing how digital platforms that benefit from network effects can engage in a

September 8, 2023

Justice Bottlenecked: When Systems Fail to Deliver

What Do UK Mobile Contract Price Rises Tell Us About The Bottleneck On Justice? Following news coverage on the role of

Private REITs, Public Concerns: What Investors Should Know

Key Points Thanks to declining interest rates, private REITs’ fundraising activities soared in the years following the Great Financial Crisis,