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Research on Islamic finance by Lionel Paolella of Cambridge Judge Business School finds that bond buyers will accept a lower rate of return when the bonds are endorsed by high-status Shariah scholars, or skeikhs, underlining the importance of moral reassurance on products whose moral acceptability may be contested.

The common assumption that negative emotions create negative results is too simplistic, finds research co-authored by Cambridge Judge faculty member Professor Jochen Menges based on studies related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the negative emotions it generated.

Crypto mixers are back but different, say Wenbin Wu and Keith Bear from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School. After 2022 sanctions scattered the market, compliant privacy protocols now dominate.