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The Spread: Until We OCC You Again
This week on The Spread, we catch up on the last two week’s news, including a number of exciting updates from our friends at the OCC.
So Far, So Good – Updates from Cboe’s Options Trading Floor
Cboe Global Markets has been reopened for more than two weeks now. How have things been going? According to Cboe, it’s been a smooth ride.
Cboe Betting U.S.-Style Equity Derivatives Trade, Clearing Translates to Europe
Cboe Global Markets executives on Thursday touted its European clearinghouse acquisition, announced July 1, saying the exchange holding company aims to unlock the potential of pan-European derivatives business. In a call with investors and analysts, Edward Tilly, Cboe...
Hemp Enters Growing Season Against Backdrop of Moribund Prices
No one will be surprised to learn that the price of CBD-hemp has stayed in the basement, resisting any pull upward as the industry works through the 2019 crop inventory while new harvest beckons in the not too distant future. According to its June Hemp: Benchmarks and...
The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 12: IOU on a Blockchain
Philippe Bekhazi, the founder and CEO of the XBTO Group, has a long history of creating technological tools for trading, devising portfolio and risk management solutions for clients trading equities, FX, rates, and credit instruments. On this episode of the CMW Podcast, he discusses how XBTO went from a prop trading desk to one of the biggest investors in the growing digital asset space, as well as the rise of digital asset derivatives and stablecoins, and the future of digital money.
The Spread: Going Virtual
This week on The Spread, Robinhood announces safety rails to protect inexperienced traders from themselves, JLN covers the first-ever totally virtual IDX, and more.
Commodity Focus Closes IDX-V
The last session of this year's IDX-V was titled “Commodities in Focus,” the only panel of the third day, which itself was titled “Commodities and the unexpected consequences of COVID-19.” Joanna Williams, Of Counsel at the U.K. law firm Simmons and Simmons,...
FIA IDX-V: Global economy far from equilibrium, CME economist says
The overall economic narrative of the recent pandemic is one of sharp job losses and a “cascading network collapse,” said Blu Putnam, CME Group managing director and chief economist. “We are far from equilibrium,” he added, referencing a chart that showed a freefall...
Lessons Learned in Real Time
At the end of the IDX-V session on the lessons learned Wednesday, just after Chris Smith from LME mentioned the importance of infrastructure for working from home, my internet failed. FIA’s Don Byron, who moderated the panel, had mentioned how when the movie Frozen II...
Brent Crude: Global Benchmark
The closing session of IDX-V Day 2 offered ICE pumping its own oil in the form of an infomercial (“sponsored session”) about ICE Brent crude futures. The two-person session had Chris Edmonds, ICE Global Head of Clearing and Risk, as master of ceremonies, and ICE Head...
Chris Hehmeyer: An Endorsement of the Crypto World Like None It’s Ever Seen
The crypto world received a large and powerful endorsement yesterday from a pillar of the futures world. Chris Hehmeyer, in a blog post where he announced the reasoning for rebranding his firm from Hehmeyer Trading + Investments to just Hehmeyer, gave the crypto world...
FIA IDX-V: ‘No Victory Laps,’ But Systems Clear Amid Pandemic-Infused Volatility
The global pandemic provided European markets with their first major test since the implementation of financial reforms that followed the 2008-2009 financial crisis, a challenge they met despite “stress on all of the markets, all of the time,” said Daniel Maguire, CEO...
FIA IDX-V: ESMA’s Verena Ross on Regulation and Priorities During COVID-19
Verena Ross, executive director of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said Tuesday that despite “unprecedented market reaction to the virus and government closings,” overall EU trading structures worked well during the COVID-19 crisis. In a...
FIA’s Walt Lukken Kicks off Resilient “IDX That Was”
Opening the first virtual IDX conference, FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken Tuesday talked about the feelings of uncertainty overwhelming many people these days amid the COVID-19 health crisis, political risk and growing populism.
GLENN HAVLICEK: INJECTING TRANSPARENCY INTO THE WORLD’S BIGGEST LITTLE MARKET
GLMX Technologies' CEO talks about trading the $15 trillion repo market, one of the largest short-term credit markets in the world, and why the upcoming changeover from LIBOR to SOFR is such an important issue.
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