With $600,000 in funding, the UF Warrington College of Business is advancing research and educational opportunities in the growing field of financial technology (commonly referred to as fintech) with its newly established FinTech Research Center in Stuzin Hall. Supported by
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Read the latest news and research from University of Florida Warrington College of Business faculty, who are thought leaders in their respective fields and provide expert guidance in the classroom. Their research provides industry leaders and individuals with insights they can use in their careers and daily lives.

Truth Social merger deal wins key approval, a victory for Trump
The former president’s stake in the post-merger company would be valued, at today’s share price, at nearly $4 billion. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights in this story from the Washington Post. [Subscription required.]

McGill honored for lifetime contributions to accounting education by premier accounting organization
Gary McGill, Senior Associate Dean of the Warrington College of Business, Director of the Fisher School of Accounting and Director of the Hough Graduate School of Business was awarded the Jim Benjamin Lifetime Service Award at the February meeting of

University of Florida management professor receives NSF CAREER Award
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Assistant Professor of Management Yixuan Li is among the latest recipients of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award, the research foundation’s most prestigious award that supports early-career faculty. Li is the

Regulation makes crypto markets more efficient
First-of-its-kind research from PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor Liangfei Qiu, John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Chair Mahendrarajah Nimalendran and Robert B. Carter Professor Praveen Pathak on cryptocurrency finds that the most regulated coins create the most efficient markets. That crypto regulation, often

Drilling into marketing
With a good-natured grin, Peter S. Sealey PhD Professor of Marketing Richard J. Lutz stalked between desks in his Marketing 101 classroom. Every student in the packed auditorium leaned forward, curious to see what he’d do with the electric drill

Russian investor made millions off insider trading tied to Trump Media, court docs say
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his expertise for this story about a Russian-American businessman based in Miami suspected of making nearly $23 million from alleged insider trading involving former President Donald Trump’s media company, according to federal court records.

University of Florida professor inducted into prestigious young scholars class for excellence in marketing research
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tianxin Zou, John I. Williams, Jr. Assistant Professor of Marketing, is among the latest class of Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholars. Zou joins a prestigious group of marketing scholars from the University of Florida honored with

Research by Warrington faculty nominated for Antitrust Writing Awards
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A paper by Jingchuan Pu and John B. Higdon Eminent Scholar Chair Hsing Kenneth Cheng has been nominated for this year’s Antitrust Writing Award. The paper, “Impact of Own Brand Product Introduction on Optimal Pricing Models for

How psychology is shaping the future of technology
Professor of Management Heng Xu spoke as part of a series from the American Psychological Association at CES, the world’s leading technology conference, on the complex world of digital privacy and how the current environment presents challenges to users. “We