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Intercontinental Exchange’s Lynn Martin Walks JLN Through New ICE Portfolio Auction Platform
Fixed-Income Trading Platform Automates Complex Portfolio Trading, Leverages ICE Data and Risk Management Tools The world of bond trading is being swept into the electronic trading world and ICE has offered a new way to automate and make the trading of large...
FIA Boca-V: Closing Ceremony Honors Outstanding Figures and Remembers the Lost
FIA Boca-V 2021 wrapped up with FIA CEO Walt Lukken thanking attendees and welcoming 2021’s inductees into the Futures Industry Hall of Fame.
FIA: Walt Lukken Kicks Off Boca-V From His Washington, D.C., Office
Walt Lukken kicked off the FIA Boca-V conference, not from a stage in Boca Raton, Florida, but from his office in Washington, D.C. He was dressed in a dark jacket and pink tie. Normally, we are surrounded by pink at the 95-year-old Boca Resort. His opening remarks...
Jack Sandner Remembrances
Jack Sandner is remembered by industry friends, colleagues, and market and industry participants. Tony McCormick, CEO of Boston Regulation I don’t think that the remembrances truly capture who Jack was. A rough and tumble guy who always championed the individual...
Ram Vittal – John Lothian News Zoom Interview
In 2020, Ram Vittal was hired by Marex to be the CEO of the London-based firm’s North American operations. John Lothian interviewed Vittal for John Lothian News about his role at Marex. Vittal discusses Marex's retail and institutional strategies and where they fit in...
Cannabis to Face Big Policy Issues in 2021
February was a quiet news month for industrial hemp, giving us a little time to think about some of the structural issues facing the industry. Per usual, PanXchange’s monthly Benchmarks & Analysis report provided a good launching pad.
Update: Illinois Offers Object Lesson on Pros vs. Cons of Cannabis Business
There can be both highs and lows in the cannabis business. The Reddit crew learned that lesson this week when they bought, then sold, stocks in the sector. The state of Illinois presents another example.
Ed Tilly – The Path to Electronic Trading
In a recent Zoom interview with John Lothian News for the JLN MarketsWiki Education Path to Electronic Trading series, Cboe Global Markets Chairman. President and CEO Ed Tilly shared the story of his start in the options industry and how that led him on a path towards electronic trading.
CBD Prices Languish As KSU Studies Using Hemp In Feed
It has been quiet lately in hemp country - which, since the 2018 Farm Act, of course, includes all 50 states. In fact, industrial hemp plantings were reported to the USDA’s Farm Service Agency by farmers in 48 states in 2020 (Alaska and Mississippi didn’t come to the...
Why Do You Hire a Super Salesman to Run Trading Technologies?
Rick Lane is out at Trading Technologies as CEO and chairman, but still with the company in a non-titled supporting role for the time being, at a time when the company is rumored to be in the midst of a sale.
BNPP Asset Management Looks Forward to Continued Stock Price Appreciation
Despite the current raging pandemic and Congress debating whether to impeach the same president twice, the portfolio managers that BNPP Asset Management’s new CEO, Johanna Lasker, assembled to talk to the press on Wednesday morning said they believe all of that will...
Ray Carmichael – The History of Financial Futures – Part 2
Ray Carmichael was in the thick of the new markets, the early days of electronic trading and huge change in the futures industry globally as the head of corporate communications for the Chicago Board of Trade.
Ray Carmichael – The History of Financial Futures Part I
Ray Carmichael joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1980, hired by then-CBOT president Thomas Donovan to lead communications for the exchange. Carmichael had come from the nonprofit world, so he understood how committees work in organizations.
The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 16: A Year of Highs and Lows
In this episode of the CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast, Matt Raebel and Thom Thompson discuss their picks for the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain stories of 2020.
Mark James Powers, 1940-2020
The following obituary was provided by the Powers family: September 16, 1940 - November 17, 2020 Mark James Powers, aged 80, died peacefully in his home in Durham, NC, on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. Mark was born in Mauston, WI on September 16, 1940, to James and...
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