by Matt Raebel | Jul 18, 2019 | Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Politics, Regulation
Matt Raebel Associate Editor In 2019, congressional Republicans and Democrats have at least one thing they all seem to agree upon…none of them trust Facebook. David Marcus, co-creator of Libra and head of Libra and Calibra, testified before Congress Wednesday...
by Sarah Rudolph | Jul 18, 2019 | Commentary, Fintech, JLN News
Sarah Rudolph Managing Editor & Head of Editorial Operations LinkedIn JLN’s two-day MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity concluded on Wednesday as another 12 industry veterans took the stage to help industry interns prepare for a potential career in...
by Sarah Rudolph | Jul 17, 2019 | Blockchain, Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Fintech, Investing & Trading, Regulation, Thought Leadership
Sarah Rudolph Managing Editor & Head of Editorial Operations LinkedIn Cryptocurrencies and blockchain were not the only themes at the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity event at the headquarters of Trading Technologies on Tuesday, but they kept cropping...
by John Lothian | Jul 15, 2019 | Commentary, Regulation, Regulation & Enforcement, Thought Leadership
John Lothian Executive Chairman and CEO TwitterLinkedIn Mr. Heath TarbertChairman, Commodity Futures Trading CommissionThree Lafayette Centre1155 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20581 July 12, 2019 Dear Chairman Tarbert: Congratulations on becoming chairman of the CFTC....
by John J. Lothian | Jun 28, 2019 | Commentary, Investing & Trading, Metals, Thought Leadership
Spoofing is Dunm (sic) and Just Plain Stupid John Lothian Executive Chairman and CEO TwitterLinkedIn If Bart Chilton were alive today, he would be smiling. The CFTC nailed another bank for metals futures market manipulation. According to the CFTC website, “The...
by Thom Thompson | Jun 27, 2019 | Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Exchanges, OTC & Clearing, Fintech
Thom Thompson Contributing Editor On Monday, June 24, the CFTC licensed LedgerX as a futures market and it joined the ranks of the CFTC triply crowned: swap execution facility (SEF), derivatives clearing organization (DCO) and now designated contract market (DCM). CME...
by Sarah Rudolph | Jun 25, 2019 | Commentary, Thought Leadership
Sarah Rudolph Managing Editor & Head of Editorial Operations LinkedIn Illinois Tech’s (IIT) biennial Tech-X awards dinner last night honored a well-known industry pioneer and icon, former CME Chairman Jack Sandner, and a relative newcomer, Hazem Dawani,...
by Thom Thompson | Jun 25, 2019 | Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Fintech, Regulation, Regulation & Enforcement
Thom Thompson Contributing Editor The hearing on WESCO’s motion to lift Bcause’s bankruptcy protection and/or to remove the bankruptcy court’s stay on a lower court’s order to pay WESCO continued on Monday, June 24. WESCO, an electrical equipment supplier, has asked...
by Thom Thompson | Jun 24, 2019 | Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Fintech, Investing & Trading, Regulation
Thom Thompson Contributing Editor Bcause LLC, the failed cryptocurrency trading platform and mining services provider, was back in court on Friday, June 21, on a motion by WESCO, a secured creditor, to be paid now, before the remaining cash in the enterprise is...
by Matt Raebel | Jun 6, 2019 | Commentary, CryptoMarkets, Fintech, Tech / HFT
Matt Raebel Associate Editor If you get an email from someone who quotes poetry at you before demanding bitcoin under the threat of physical violence, don’t panic – you’ve probably just been hit by a phishing attack. Phishing accounts for the vast majority of...
