Distinction should be made between intermediation platforms, which generate no profits for its users, and those that do, "with or without an employer-employee relationship between the service provider and the platform".
National authorities should also be enabled to require information from the intermediation platforms in order to ensure that all parties fulfil their tax and social security obligations and to guarantee that service providers are competent and qualified to ensure consumer protection.
Advanced topics in financial frictions and obstacles to trade; DSGE and micro founded macro models; analysis and design of financial systems; liquidity, payments systems, and monetary policy; intermediation, financial markets and platforms; business cycles, transitions, and financial crises; implementation and coordination game.
And in this era of dis-intermediation, where trading platforms proliferate, what good is the terminal without news, both real-time and investigative?
This innovative financial activity refers to unsecured direct loans between lenders and borrowers through online platforms without the intermediation of any financial institutions (Lin et al. 2013; Greiner and Wang 2010; Sorbe 2009).
Having human interaction as its base, it is not a new concept (Edosomwan, Prakasan, Kouame, Watson and Seymour, [2011]), though the intermediation of advanced information technology platforms has led to metamorphosis of interpersonal interactions and communications globally (Edosomwan et al. [2011]; Duhan and Singh [2013]).
This is one of the main reasons that multisided-platform business models for patent intermediation (Ocean Tomo's live auctions, for example, and online marketplaces such as yet2 and Tynax) have failed to gain much traction, while Intellectual Ventures and other patent aggregators which buy patents, bundle them, and then sell or license the bundles have thrived.
They're not truly disintermediated either because the best platforms provide some form of intermediation (like scoring borrower quality).
Such platforms should be completely unbureaucratized and must function without the intermediation of any officials, except as individuals.
Public hearing - Promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services- MEPs will discuss with experts, stakeholders and policy makers how to address the emergence of unfair practices in platform to business relationships, bearing in mind the increasingly important role of online platforms as vehicles for market access.
