Investopedia explains 'Domestic Box Office Receipt (DBOR) Futures Contracts'
While the Cantor Exchange has postponed the trading of box-office receipt contracts indefinitely as a consequence of the ban, the DBOR futures contracts envisaged by it entailed cash settlement, based on the sum of daily box-office receipts in the United States and Canada during the first four weeks after a film's initial release.
The concept of DBOR futures contracts had already run into resistance from a number of parties including major movie studios, theater owners and the Motion Picture Association of America, on the grounds that the instruments could be susceptible to insider trading and manipulation.
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