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First Citizens to Buy SVB After Biggest Bank Failure Since 2008

First Citizens to Buy SVB After Biggest Bank Failure Since 2008

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff This morning we have the first of the videos from our FIA Boca coverage and we start out with our interview with CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam. We also have an interview with IMC Marketing Manager Steven Biester,...

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Exchanges Globally Agree Framework for Green Equities

Exchanges Globally Agree Framework for Green Equities

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CME Group is holding a WTI Futures Trading Challenge from March 26 to 31 to commemorate 40 years of the most liquid oil futures benchmark contract. You get to practice trading WTI in a risk-free environment...

Wall Street Eases Hiring Freeze in Grab for Credit Suisse Talent

Wall Street Eases Hiring Freeze in Grab for Credit Suisse Talent

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Gary Gensler decided to play nice with Coinbase and notify them they may soon face an enforcement action tied to its list of potential unregistered securities,...

JPMorgan Traders Should Get Prison for Spoofing, US Says

JPMorgan Traders Should Get Prison for Spoofing, US Says

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Cheryl and I made it home to Elmhurst late last night after driving straight through from Kennesaw, GA. Now after a day of work, we just have to go to Wisconsin and retrieve our furry beasts (2 dogs) from my...

Investors in limbo land as trust in market rules wavers

Investors in limbo land as trust in market rules wavers

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff I thought the Swiss were known for their banking skills, but it turns out they will be known for their banking debts. According to Bloomberg, the Swiss bailout of Credit Suisse will cost each man, woman and...

Credit Suisse Bond-Wipeout Threatens $250 Billion Market

Credit Suisse Bond-Wipeout Threatens $250 Billion Market

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Well that was fun while it lasted and it did not last very long. Number one seeds Purdue and Kansas lost over the weekend in the Men's NCAA basketball championship tournament and broke apart millions of betting...

Wall Street banks to deposit $30bn into First Republic

Wall Street banks to deposit $30bn into First Republic

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Today is one of the most dangerous of all days, a St. Patrick's Day that falls on a Friday. Holiday drinking will meet end of week drinking and the results will not be pretty. Luckily, a much older and wiser man...

Trading Technologies acquires AxeTrading

Trading Technologies acquires AxeTrading

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The Futures Industry Association, in recognition of International Womens' Day, spoke with six female FCM leaders who sit on the global board of the FIA and whose firms represent more than half of all customer...

CTAs are minnows, not whales; Tall trend-following tales

CTAs are minnows, not whales; Tall trend-following tales

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The Financial Times has put together a movie titled "FTX: the legend of Sam Bankman-Fried" that tries to explain the phenomena of SBF and FTX. More importantly, it tries to explain why everyone (but CME's Terry...

How Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown

How Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Dan Keegan, who JLN recently interviewed for the Options Discovery video series, has offered a tribute to the late Mike Newsham on LinkedIn. Dan knew Mike much better than I did, and he knew him from an earlier...

Clueless Wall Street Is Racing to Size Up Zero-Day Options Boom

Clueless Wall Street Is Racing to Size Up Zero-Day Options Boom

First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff At "The Digital Transformation of Finance" program last night at The John L. Keeley Jr. Center for Financial Services and the Department of Finance at DePaul University, I was introduced to those in attendance...

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