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The Spread: Time for an Upgrade
This week on The Spread, Softbank ditches a controversial options investment, the CME becomes the new king of bitcoin derivatives, and more.
FIA Asia-V: Are Data and Technology the New Drivers for the Business?
There is perhaps nothing more central to trading than data. The numbers flashing across your computer screen may represent tangible products but in the end it is all reduced to a data stream.
FIA Asia-V: ESG – Meeting Customer Demand While Building a Market
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is a hot topic these days. The growing practice of investing in exclusively eco-friendly, socially-conscious companies is a developing industry, and from the sounds of the panelists at the FIA Asia-V panel,...
FIA Asia-V: HKEX’s Charles Li Bids Industry Farewell But Not Goodbye
In his last address to the FIA as the chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd., Charles Li looked back at 2020 and toward a brighter future “now that we are seemingly coming out the other side of the tunnel with the vaccines coming.” Set to retire from...
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: Asia-Pacific Exchanges Look Back and Ahead
In the first panel at FIA’s Asia-V 2020 Expo, exchanges in the Asia-Pacific looked back at their successes during a turbulent year and ahead toward opportunities for cooperation in 2021.
FIA Asia-V: Top Chinese Regulator Pitches Open Mainland Markets
With a pedigree that includes a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and a five-year stint as an investment officer at the World Bank, it is not surprising that the vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Committee is a proponent of the opening of...
David Prosperi – A Career in Politics, Government, Futures Trading, Insurance and Clearinghouse Public Relations
https://vimeo.com/486023299 David Prosperi has had a long career in public relations in the markets and politics. John Lothian interviewed Prosperi over Zoom about his career and the events that saw him move from national politics to the White House and to jobs at the...
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 Spread: Cleared for Retirement
This week on The Spread, the CME announces the launch of new volatility indices, the OCC’s David Prosperi retires, and more.
The Spread: Edu-tainment
This week on The Spread, FIA’s virtual expo fills in for the physical event, Cboe and ICE launch new products, and more.
FIA EXPO-V: Cboe’s Ed Tilly Talks Retail Investors, European Derivatives Plans
Although it was a period of heightened volatility, 2020 was a big year for retail investors, who jumped in as many institutional investors moved to the sidelines. Finally, over the last week and a half, those institutions are coming back in, said Ed Tilly, chairman,...
FIA 2020: Operations and Technology: Lessons learned from the pandemic
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial industry has largely shifted to working from home this year. On day two of FIA Expo-V, executives from major institutions throughout the financial industry shared what they had learned from shifting to remote and...
FIA EXPO 2020: Lots of Ideas, But Little Agreement, As Libor Faces Deadline
As the deadline for the end of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) looms at the end of 2021, a host of legacy issues and alternative rate choices remain on the table, members of an FIA Expo panel on short-term interest rate rates agreed. But while the panelists...
FIA Expo: How Small Can You Go?
Mini and micro futures contracts at various exchanges have been gaining a lot of traction lately, presumably because of the "Robinhood effect" of retail traders coming into the markets. Our own John Lothian led a panel at FIA Expo-V Thursday titled "How Small Can You...
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