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Wave Goodbye to Libor. Welcome Its Successor, SOFR
First Read Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along Matt Raebel - John Lothian News When you lose your digital assets, there isn't exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It's still the Wild West...
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JLN Options Newsletter
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Morgan Stanley Soared in Currency Derivatives Before Lira Mess; Time to Get Tactical on European Rates as Returns May Fall
See also: The Big Bet Now Is On Britain’s Unreliable Polls: Trading Brexit, Wave Goodbye to Libor. Welcome Its Successor, SOFR, and more.
Everything you need to know about Options Today
Lead Stories
Weekend Update: December 2-6 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project Alan Palmer came to the exchange as a 13-year-old and fell in love. He was hired the next summer as a runner on the trading floor. He has traded at the...
Ransomware Attack Hits FIA Tech Managed Service Provider CyrusOne
One of FIA Tech’s managed service providers, CyrusOne, was the target of a ransomware attack that knocked out three services FIA Tech offers from the data center. Two of those three services have been restored, one as of Wednesday morning and...
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Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR)
In a Bloomberg opinion piece, the chair of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, a public-private committee convened and sponsored by the Federal Reserve, recommends institutions stop using Libor as quickly as possible and move to SOFR.
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BlockFi
BlockFi, the cryptocurrency financial institution that lends U.S. dollars against bitcoin and other cryptocurrency collateral, has begun offering zero-fee trading on its own platform.
John Lothian Newsletter
Today’s Newsletter
Wave Goodbye to Libor. Welcome Its Successor, SOFR
First Read Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along Matt Raebel - John Lothian News When you lose your digital assets, there isn't exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It's still the Wild West...
We visit more than 100 websites daily for financial news (Would YOU do that?)
JLN Options Newsletter
Today’s Newsletter
Morgan Stanley Soared in Currency Derivatives Before Lira Mess; Time to Get Tactical on European Rates as Returns May Fall
See also: The Big Bet Now Is On Britain’s Unreliable Polls: Trading Brexit, Wave Goodbye to Libor. Welcome Its Successor, SOFR, and more.
Everything you need to know about Options Today
Lead Stories
Weekend Update: December 2-6 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project Alan Palmer came to the exchange as a 13-year-old and fell in love. He was hired the next summer as a runner on the trading floor. He has traded at the...
Ransomware Attack Hits FIA Tech Managed Service Provider CyrusOne
One of FIA Tech’s managed service providers, CyrusOne, was the target of a ransomware attack that knocked out three services FIA Tech offers from the data center. Two of those three services have been restored, one as of Wednesday morning and...
Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along
When you lose your digital assets, there isn’t exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It’s still the Wild West in a lot of ways...investors still get scammed, the heads of new platforms are still getting pinched for running unregistered...
Changing Paradigms : Chris Hehmeyer of Hehmeyer Trading + Investments
Low volatility, regulatory uncertainty, lack of transparency – there is no shortage of challenges for those trading in the digital asset market. Chris Hehmeyer joined JLN at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss how his firm, Hehmeyer Trading + Investments, is meeting these challenges.
Risk Management, Analytics and Parallel Processing: Tom Watson of Hanweck
Tom Watson, head of sales at Hanweck, sat down with JLN at FIA Expo to talk about Hanweck’s branching out into international markets and margin analytics and how GPU-based computing is changing the industry landscape.
Dan Stern – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Here Dan Stern tells his story in an interview for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project.
Cloud-based collateral management’s profound impact on the financial industry: CloudMargin’s Karl Wyborn
CloudMargin’s Karl Wyborn, the London-based company’s newly appointed global head of business development, sat down with John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 to explain how the deployment of cloud technology has begun to change the industry.
Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project
In this MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project interviews, Palmer tells the story of his days on the trading floor.
Metadata, AI, and monitoring global risks: Predata’s Hazem Dawani
At FIA Expo 2019, Predata CEO Hazem Dawani explained metadata and how his company uses it to monitor the economic, social and security risks of more than 180 countries. Metadata allows the company to alert customers as to patterns and anomalous behavior early on that later lead to major events or shifts in online interests.
The Weekend Update: November 25-29 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Georgia Governor, Trump Appear at Odds Over Senate Pick President Trump quietly met Sunday in the White House with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the governor’s preferred pick to fill the state’s Senate seat,...
Tony Saliba – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project Tony Saliba was interviewed by John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. Saliba is a trader, exchange member and financial industry technology and education executive...
Building New Markets: Matt Trudeau of ErisX
What does it take to build a new market? Matt Trudeau’s a good person to ask – he’s done it 12 times now, and he shared his experience with JLN during FIA Expo 2019.
Trading platform migration complete, Cboe’s Chris Isaacson outlines next steps
Chris Isaacson, Cboe Global Markets executive VP and chief operating officer, talked to JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the exchange operator’s next steps after finishing the three-year-long migration of Cboe’s exchanges to Bats technology.
Paul R.T. Johnson Jr – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education's Open Outcry Traders History Project Paul RT Johnson, Jr. was recently interviewed by John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. Johnson is a Chicago-based former futures broker,...
The Weekend Update: November 18-22, 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Chicago trading titan Don Wilson says Libor’s obituaries are premature (Bloomberg)—Chicago trading legend Don Wilson suspects the scandal-tainted Libor interest-rate benchmark is going to stick around past its...
Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along
When you lose your digital assets, there isn’t exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It’s still the Wild West in a lot of ways...investors still get scammed, the heads of new platforms are still getting pinched for running unregistered...
Changing Paradigms : Chris Hehmeyer of Hehmeyer Trading + Investments
Low volatility, regulatory uncertainty, lack of transparency – there is no shortage of challenges for those trading in the digital asset market. Chris Hehmeyer joined JLN at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss how his firm, Hehmeyer Trading + Investments, is meeting these challenges.
Risk Management, Analytics and Parallel Processing: Tom Watson of Hanweck
Tom Watson, head of sales at Hanweck, sat down with JLN at FIA Expo to talk about Hanweck’s branching out into international markets and margin analytics and how GPU-based computing is changing the industry landscape.
Dan Stern – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Here Dan Stern tells his story in an interview for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project.
Cloud-based collateral management’s profound impact on the financial industry: CloudMargin’s Karl Wyborn
CloudMargin’s Karl Wyborn, the London-based company’s newly appointed global head of business development, sat down with John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 to explain how the deployment of cloud technology has begun to change the industry.
Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project
In this MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project interviews, Palmer tells the story of his days on the trading floor.
Metadata, AI, and monitoring global risks: Predata’s Hazem Dawani
At FIA Expo 2019, Predata CEO Hazem Dawani explained metadata and how his company uses it to monitor the economic, social and security risks of more than 180 countries. Metadata allows the company to alert customers as to patterns and anomalous behavior early on that later lead to major events or shifts in online interests.
The Weekend Update: November 25-29 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Georgia Governor, Trump Appear at Odds Over Senate Pick President Trump quietly met Sunday in the White House with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and the governor’s preferred pick to fill the state’s Senate seat,...
Tony Saliba – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project Tony Saliba was interviewed by John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. Saliba is a trader, exchange member and financial industry technology and education executive...
Building New Markets: Matt Trudeau of ErisX
What does it take to build a new market? Matt Trudeau’s a good person to ask – he’s done it 12 times now, and he shared his experience with JLN during FIA Expo 2019.
Trading platform migration complete, Cboe’s Chris Isaacson outlines next steps
Chris Isaacson, Cboe Global Markets executive VP and chief operating officer, talked to JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the exchange operator’s next steps after finishing the three-year-long migration of Cboe’s exchanges to Bats technology.
Paul R.T. Johnson Jr – Open Outcry Traders History Project
MarketsWiki Education's Open Outcry Traders History Project Paul RT Johnson, Jr. was recently interviewed by John Lothian News for the MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project. Johnson is a Chicago-based former futures broker,...
The Weekend Update: November 18-22, 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Chicago trading titan Don Wilson says Libor’s obituaries are premature (Bloomberg)—Chicago trading legend Don Wilson suspects the scandal-tainted Libor interest-rate benchmark is going to stick around past its...
The Spread: The CEM Gets SA-CC’d
This week on The Spread: the CEM is succeeded by the SA-CCR after a final ruling by the Fed, the FDIC, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the other OCC); MIAX launches SPIKES futures
Tariffs, Transitions, and STIRs: Wedbush’s Bob Fitzsimmons at FIA Expo
Bob Fitzsimmons, executive VP at Wedbush Securities, spoke with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the transition away from Libor to Sonia, SOFR and Ameribor, the potential for bitcoin contracts, FCM consolidation, and the impact of tariffs on the agricultural community.
