“Even though there are unknowns, there are potential benefits,” is what SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce would like foreign regulators to keep in mind regarding cryptocurrency regulation.
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Yellen Looks Likely To Stick With Treasury Department Policy Regarding Bitcoin
President-elect Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary nominee, Janet Yellen, upset the cryptoverse yesterday with her response to a senator’s question about terrorism during her Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing. With regard to terrorist financing, she said,...
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...
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.
Hemp’s Future Twists and Turns Go Beyond Current CBD Marketplace
Our friends at PanXchange have included, along with their usual invaluable market insights, a year’s-end forecast to get us started thinking about 2021 in their December Hemp: Benchmarks & Analysis report.
FIA Asia-V: “This Is A Great Time To Be Alive!”
“This is a great time to be alive!” Glenn Seah actually said that on the FIA Asia-V panel titled The Regulatory Landscape for a New Decade when he was asked to discuss cross border issues in light of current geopolitical conditions. Seah, SGX’s Head of Legal,...
FIA Asia-V: CCP Resilience Does Not Dissuade Industry From Self Assessment
Jackie Mesa, who is FIA’s COO and Senior VP of Global Policy, moderated Asia-V’s panel, "The CCP Perspective on the Asia-Pacific Clearing Environment." Her panelists were Kate Birchall from LCH, Agnes Koh, from Singapore Exchange, Vikram Kothari from NSE Clearing...
FIA Asia-V: “Timetable is a very tricky thing”
At Asia-V’s panel on the challenges and opportunities for cross border trading and clearing in the region, Managing Director Sharon Shi from G.H. Financials talked about how her global customers are thinking about access to trading in China.
The Hemp Industry Has Room To Grow
As the third nationally legal industrial hemp crop hits the market, it is clear that American producers, consumers, merchants and processors are engaged, at an early stage, in a grand and exciting economic experiment to leverage an ages-old commodity into effective, reliable products for technologically advanced markets.
FIA Expo 2020: FIA’s Lurton: “Spoofing is something you should pay attention to.” Oyez! Oyez!
Allison Lurton, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel for FIA, was joined by two lawyers from the law firm Faegre Drinker, James Ludy and Nicholas Wendland, on Thursday morning at FIA Expo for the inevitable panel on spoofing. This one came with a refreshing twist -...
FIA Expo: Good Fragmentation vs. Bad Fragmentation
Deborah North, partner at the law firm Allen & Overy, moderated the Wednesday morning panel titled “Is Market Fragmentation the Future?” at FIA Expo 2020.
FIA Expo: U.S. Treasuries’ 2020 March Madness
Wednesday morning Kevin McPartland, head of research at Greenwich Associates, and his U.S. Treasury Market: Key Takeaways From March 2020 panelists dug into what happened in the market during that remarkable month. The Managed Funds Association’s Ben Allensworth said...
Resilience, Complacence, Reticence: Clearing During Volatility
A Tuesday morning panel called “Clearing During Volatility” gathered Sarah Shore (Goldman Sachs), Lee Betsill (CME), Dale Michaels (OCC), Gert Ellerkmann (ABN AMRO Clearing Bank), and Jackie Mesa (FIA). The session focused on the February - March 2020 kind of...
FIA Expo: Tarbert Misses Opportunities in Keynote Address
In what is likely to be his last FIA Expo address as chairman of the CFTC, Dr. Heath Tarbert spoke for about half an hour on Tuesday morning at this year’s conference which, of course, is being Zoomed around the world.
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