Asia/Pacific
ICE’s Chris Edmonds Expands on Crypto Commentary in JLN Video Interview
Last Friday John Lothian News interviewed ICE Chief Development Officer Chris Edmonds about the commentary he wrote that JLN published and why he wrote it and what he was trying to accomplish.
We asked him what lessons were learned from the BAKKT experience and what was ICE trying to accomplish with the exchange and clearing offering and what didn’t work?
Edmonds said the lesson learned was that the market did not want a physically delivered bitcoin contract.
Rama Pillai and KC Lam of SGX on trading flows from Asian markets into Singapore, FX trading innovations, and transposing the NIFTY Index futures to India
JLN Correspondent Julie Ros spoke with two executives from SGX, the Singapore Exchange, at FIA’s IDX Conference in London in June. Rama Pillai, managing director, global sales & origination, and KC Lam, head of FX and rates, talked about the changes they’ve seen with trading in Asia and the products their clients have been trading in the current environment.
CME Group’s Derek Sammann on the Future of Markets panel at IDX and CME’s growth in international markets, emerging markets, and options
JLN Correspondent Julie Ros talked to Derek Sammann, senior managing director and global head of commodities, options and international markets at CME Group, at the IDX conference in London in June. She asked Sammann about his reflections on the Future of Markets panel at IDX. He said that each of the panelists brought a different perspective to such topics as what grows markets and in particular “product development through the lens of client need.”
Walt Lukken Reflects on FIA IDX 2023 and the Good That FIA and Its Members Do
FIA CEO and President Walt Lukken was interviewed by JLN Correspondent Julie Ros at the FIA International Derivatives Week (IDX) in London recently about the conference and related topics.
Lukken spoke about what stood out at the conference, what interesting takeaways on regulations he heard and what the most important topic was.
FTSE Russell Reconstitution Podcast Interview with Catherine Yoshimoto and Tim McCourt
John Lothian News interviewed Tim McCourt, Global Head of Financial and OTC Products at the CME Group and Catherine Yoshimoto, Director of Product Management for the Russell US Indexes, FTSE Russell about the June 23 FTSE Russell reconstitution.
Lee Beng Hong on SGX’s acquisitions and partnerships and bringing price discovery to the Asian markets
JLN spoke at FIA Boca 2023 with Lee Beng Hong, head of FICC at SGX Group in Singapore, about its initiatives over the past couple of years, which include the launch of an FX ECN in 2022, the acquisition of MaxxTrader, and other partnerships.
HKEX CEO Nicolas Aguzin’s First JLN Interview at FIA Boca Tells of Hong Kong and China Investment Opportunities
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing CEO Nicolas Aguzin at the FIA International Futures Conference in Boca Raton, FL in the first ever video interview for JLN with the HKEX exchange leader.
Eden Global’s David Nealis Talks About Opportunities in Vietnam at FIA Expo 2022
David Nealis, president of Eden Global Capital, sat down with John Lothian News for a video interview at FIA Boca 2022. Eden Global, a private investment firm based in the British Virgin Islands, is currently focused on the Vietnamese market, Nealis said.
“Vietnam will have about 8% GDP growth this year,” he said. “It reminds me of China 25 years ago.”
Matthew Lempriere Talks With JLN at FIA Expo 2022 About BSO Connecting to Exchanges Across the Globe
BSO is a connectivity provider for financial services and other businesses. JLN spoke with Matthew Lempriere, BSO’s head of UK and Asia Pacific, at FIA Expo 2022.
We asked him what was new at BSO. He said the company is doing a lot with RF (radio frequency) services, which it provides in the form of its RF Express and RF Ultra products.
John Vaile Saw the Potential of Financial Futures and Helped Make Them A Success
John Vaile had an aunt who invested in the stock market who bought Vaile some stock when he was 10 years old and that experience caused him to want to be a stockbroker. As a result, Vaile became a student of the market.
He went to a couple of different colleges in Illinois, then ended up in a program at Wharton for students who did not graduate from college.
Vaile was working for Morgan Stanley and living in Lake Geneva, WI, surrounded by friends in the futures markets and he wanted to get involved with what was happening. He said he badgered Morgan Stanley to get involved. They gave him permission, but he said he could see how long it would take for them to truly become involved and he did not have the patience for that.
Blue Ocean Technologies CEO Brian Hyndman Sees Clear Sailing for ATS in Overnight Trading
Brian Hyndman was recently promoted to CEO of Blue Ocean Technologies, which has developed from a broker-dealer that matched buyers and sellers by phone during the overnight market hours to an ATS that allows Asian investors to trade U.S. stocks electronically during overnight market hours. Hyndman was recently interviewed by John Lothian News about Blue Ocean and his new role.
Hyndman, a longtime Nasdaq executive, joined Blue Ocean to help raise capital to grow the company. He was eventually asked to join Blue Ocean and run it. Before Hyndman joined, the company’s vision was to trade just ETFs; he extended it out to all NMS (National Market System) stocks. Today, Blue Ocean offers trading on more than 12,000 NMS stocks on its platform.
SGX Group’s Michael Syn on remote work, internationalization, and maintaining SGX market fluency
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) is the largest US dollar clearinghouse in Asia, and it is the largest RMB clearing house in the world outside of China. The work of SGX in 2022 is to maintain its position of fluency in dollars, euros, sterling and RMB, making sure access is open to participants from around the world, said Michael Syn, senior managing director and head of equities at SGX.
CEO Loh Boon Chye on SGX’s investment in TT, links with Shenzhen and CME, and its ETF and FX business
Loh Boon Chye, the CEO of the Singapore Exchange (SGX), sat down with John Lothian News at FIA Boca 2022 to talk about SGX’s moves in the ESG space, its investment in Trading Technologies, its links with the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the CME, and its growing ETF and FX business.
John Fildes’ Down Under View From FIA Boca 2022
John Lothian News interviewed John Fildes of Bain & Company, Inc. of Australia at FIA Boca 2022 about the crypto space, exchange consolidation, payment for order flow and his perspective from down under. Fildes, who was formerly the CEO of Chi-X Australia, is now the capital markets practice lead and expert partner with Bain & Company.
Fildes weighed in on Jump Trading and the wormhole hack, Citadel’s getting into crypto and the 24/7 nature of the crypto business and its impact.
Iwanaga Moriyuki – OSE President & CEO Offers Update on Exchange Initiatives
Veteran Exchange Executive Gives Exclusive Video Interview to JLN Iwanaga Moriyuki, President and CEO of the Osaka Exchange (OSE), updated John Lothian News about several important exchange initiatives at Japan Exchange Group (JPX) in an interview over Zoom last week....
Investors blocked from betting on US congressional elections by regulator
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Cheryl and I are safely home from Bermuda and The World Federation of Exchanges Annual Meeting. We also celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary, so as the saying goes, happy wife, happy life. Now, back to work....
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The Spread
Options Discovery Episode 20: Intro to Options and Earnings; Etoro Equity and Derivatives Investment Analyst, Callie Cox, Breaks Down Options and Earnings With Jln’s Alex Teng
In this episode of Options Discovery, Asma Awass introduces equity option price behavior around earnings announcements. Alex Teng dives deeper into this topic with Callie Cox, a seasoned investment analyst and content creator from the “social-based” brThinkorswimm eToro.
OCC liquidity risk doubles to all-time high in Q2
Lead Stories OCC liquidity risk doubles to all-time high in Q2; Concentration of activity around June expiration responsible for record rise Joshua Walker - Risk.net The estimated largest payment obligation Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) could have faced had a...
