Cboe Global Markets is exploring listing perpetual futures based on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), as competition grows among US exchanges to bring the highly levered instruments that dominate the crypto market to new asset classes, Bloomberg reports.
OBSERVATIONS This year's honoree for the A. Stamford White Award is former RJO O'Brien CEO Gerry Corcoran, who was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame earlier this year. Gerry follows Craig Donohue, who received the award last year, and Advantage Futures CEO Joe...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission this week sent two new prediction market-related rules to the White House's Office of Management and Budget for review that could impact litigation over the agency’s jurisdiction over event contracts.
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff This has been a hard year, losing men who helped shape my early adult years and beyond. In the spring, my mentors Thomas J. Cashman and John J. Ruth died within a week of each other. Yesterday, I learned that...
Addition of Equities and Equity Options Completes Global Multi-Asset Stack Amid Unprecedented Market Velocity
CHICAGO, IL (JLN) — September 30, 2026: The world of capital markets is moving faster than ever before, with new products and asset classes coming in rapid-fire and 24/7 trading becoming the norm. The other norm is multi-asset trading on one platform. Trading Technologies took another step forward to meet the needs of this demanding environment by adding a crucial asset class that was missing from its multi-asset technology platform: equities and equity options. It is doing this by acquiring TRAFiX, a provider of equities and equity options order and execution management systems.
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Cboe announced a 25-year extension of their licensing agreement giving Cboe the exclusive rights to offer trading in S&P's flagship S&P 500 Index (SPX) options. The longstanding collaboration will continue through 2051.
Anthropic's IPO prospectus cautions potential investors that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," Reuters reported, calling it "an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology."
OpenAI agents bombarded a United Nations website with search requests and then used aggressive techniques to access data on the system in June, according to an independent research report published Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the NYSE have signed an MOU setting out a framework for cooperation between the two exchanges across dual listings, ETFs, index products, market data, and ESG initiatives.
BlackRock has built three investment portfolios that will trade as digital tokens, the company's latest move to bring traditional assets to the blockchain. The model portfolios will be tokenized by Ondo Finance.
BitMEX, the crypto derivatives platform that helped pioneer perpetual futures trading, shut down its exchange operations on Wednesday after an 11-year run. Users can still withdraw their balances.
Binance made a $100 million investment in Circle Internet Group as part of a partnership to promote Circle’s USDC stablecoin in emerging markets. Binance is also being investigated about possible violations of US Sanctions on Iran.
Fraudsters flooded the Polymarket app in February, linking stolen debit cards to Polymarket US accounts, then trying to use them to make bets and withdraw the money into clean cards or their own accounts, attempting to make off with at least $10 million.
The National Stock Exchange of India's $2.4 billion IPO was fully subscribed on the second day of bidding, bringing the exchange closer to completing one of the biggest listings in the country’s history.
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