First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The OCC says be wary of crypto - the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that is, not The Options Clearing Corporation. The SEC says public companies should disclose their crypto exposure, assuming they...
Observations & Insight Trabue Bland, SVP, Futures Markets at ICE, has written a paper titled "Why financial participants matter to the commodity markets." The chapter topics of the paper include "How derivatives work" and "Participation in the derivatives...
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Trabue Bland, SVP, Futures Markets at ICE, has written a paper titled "Why financial participants matter to the commodity markets." The chapter topics of the paper include "How derivatives work" and...
Trading Technologies’ TT platform wins Derivatives Trading System of the Year at FOW International Awards 2022
Observations & Insight We are pleased to be media sponsors of the Options Conference for 2023. The conference will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 26 to 28 at the Grand Hyatt, Nashville. Lead Stories Wall St wavers on rising recession worries; Apple,...
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Germany conducted a nationwide raid, thwarting a rightwing, extremist coup plot to overthrow the German government. It is the biggest ever raid targeting right wing extremists, Bloomberg reported. John Lothian...
On December 6, 2022, the FIA added ETD Tracker, an online interactive tool "that provides insights on trends in the trading of futures and options on exchanges worldwide."
Lead Stories FIA launches ETD Tracker; New online tool displays data on the trading of exchange-traded derivatives FIA FIA today announced the release of the FIA ETD Tracker, a new tool on its website that provides insights on trends in the trading of futures and...
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff I think this whole Sam Bankman-Fried "against the advice of my lawyers I am doing this two hour interview with you" is a bunch of baloney. It is really part of a larger defense strategy. He is the target of...
Observations & Insight MWE SHORT: Chip Dempsey - Breaking Down Cryptocurrencies JohnLothianNews.com In this video from MarketsWiki Education's Intern Recruiting Event in Chicago, Chip Dempsey, chief commercial officer at OCC, discusses cryptocurrencies and what...
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Jay Clayton and Timothy Massad, former heads of the SEC and CFTC respectively, have written an op-ed to The Wall Street Journal titled "How to Start Regulating the Crypto Markets-Immediately." The subheadline is...
Lead Stories VIX Falls Below Key Level as Stock Market Volatility Disappears Divya Balji - Bloomberg The Cboe Volatility Index extended its decline Thursday, dropping below the key 20 threshold and reaching the lowest level in more than three months as Wall Street...
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a piece titled "Blockchains, What Are They Good For?" It may be the obituary for blockchain, as Krugman outlines all the firms that have abandoned...
Observations & Insight If you have not watched Options Discovery with Alex Teng of JLN, you are missing something. This young man, a finance major in his senior year at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is really coming into his own with the interviews he is...
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