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India’s NSE overtakes CME Group as largest derivatives exchange globally
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq yesterday published their 4th annual Tech Trends report, this one titled "Nasdaq Decodes: Tech Trends 2020." This is their report that covers big broad topics they see impacting how markets...
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JLN Options Newsletter
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Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years; Fed’s Kaplan Warns Central Bank Actions Are Driving Up Risk Taking
Lead Stories Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years Amrith Ramkumar - WSJ The S&P 500 is in one of its longest streaks without a 1% daily move in the past five decades, highlighting how the latest leg of the stock-market...
Everything you need to know about Options Today
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More exchanges decelerate drive for speed, experiment with minuscule delays
After a prolonged drive to be the fastest to execute trades, more exchange operators are experimenting with speed bumps, or fractional delays in orders to trade stocks, as a new way to bolster liquidity.
The Weekend Update: January 6-10, 2020
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK MARC NAGEL – OPEN OUTCRY TRADERS HISTORY PROJECT Marc Nagel is a derivatives consultant, lawyer, CPA and expert witness. He also spent 26 years as a pit trader at the Chicago Board of Trade. He sat for an...
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Robert Grillo
Robert Grillo has joined CurveGlobal as head of business development, the Americas. He will be based in the US and lead CurveGlobal’s efforts to expand its Americas customer base.
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Liquid
Cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has announced the cancellation of its sale of gram tokens due to the coin’s failure to launch on time. Liquid’s head of business development said that 100 percent of client funds raised in the sale were returned.
John Lothian Newsletter
Today’s Newsletter
India’s NSE overtakes CME Group as largest derivatives exchange globally
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq yesterday published their 4th annual Tech Trends report, this one titled "Nasdaq Decodes: Tech Trends 2020." This is their report that covers big broad topics they see impacting how markets...
We visit more than 100 websites daily for financial news (Would YOU do that?)
JLN Options Newsletter
Today’s Newsletter
Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years; Fed’s Kaplan Warns Central Bank Actions Are Driving Up Risk Taking
Lead Stories Stocks Have Rarely Been This Quiet in the Past 50 Years Amrith Ramkumar - WSJ The S&P 500 is in one of its longest streaks without a 1% daily move in the past five decades, highlighting how the latest leg of the stock-market...
Everything you need to know about Options Today
Lead Stories
Big Volatility, Risk, and Consolidation: Jim Nevotti of Sterling Trading Tech
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES At FIA Expo 2019, Jim Nevotti, the president of Sterling Trading Tech, talked with JLN about CAT reporting, the return of volatility to the markets and the hidden costs of commission free trading, and...
Weekend Update: December 9-13, 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Ken Griffin Has Another Money Machine to Rival Hedge Fund Citadel Securities is sometimes dismissively referred to as “Citadel’s trading arm” -- seen as a forgotten backwater of Ken Griffin’s hedge fund empire,...
Bad News Bear Market
This week on The Spread – options traders hedge like the world is ending, ICE launches options trades on Bakkt bitcoin futures, Cboe acquires Europe’s biggest stock trade clearing house, and the industry remembers a lost legend.
A Renaissance in clearing – John Davidson of the OCC
John Davidson, chief executive officer of the OCC, discussed how the clearer is revamping its entire system, replacing its legacy clearing technology with the new Renaissance initiative, which will operate in the public cloud.
The transition to data solutions and commercial hedging tools: CQG’s Ryan Moroney
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES At FIA Expo 2019, CQG President Ryan Moroney spoke with JLN about CQG's evolution from a products-based company to a "solutions-based" company 40 years in, and how its values- and ethics-based culture...
Keeping up with a growing industry: Trabue Bland of ICE Futures U.S.
Trabue Bland, president of ICE Futures U.S., discussed the growth of the FANG+ Index Futures, the impact of zero or low interest rates on ICE's clearing members and other market participants, how traders use data now compared to decades ago, and more at...
Swaps proficiency requirements and other initiatives: the NFA’s Tom Sexton
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES The National Futures Association (NFA)'s swaps proficiency requirements will be implemented in January 2020. Tom Sexton, NFA's president and CEO, spoke with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the work that went...
Turbulence at the #1 Bitcoin SEF in the World
In the middle of Monday afternoon, the board of directors of LedgerX Holdings announced with a press release that each in the husband and wife team of Paul and Juthica Chou had been put on administrative leave from their roles as CEO and president, respectively.
Bringing Efficiency to the Raw Materials Markets: MaterialsXchange’s Mike Wisnefski
Mike Wisnefski, the CEO and co-founder of MaterialsXchange, spoke to John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 about bringing transparency and efficiency to the raw materials markets.
Jim Downs – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Jim Downs learned about the CBOE from a personal finance class while an engineering student. He loved modeling the markets and found his way to the CBOE. After reading the Black-Scholes paper, he reverse engineered it in the Basic coding language on an Apple IIE.
Regulator Rumble
This week on The Spread – Bakkt’s CEO heads to Washington, the VIX perks up for the first time since October, and regulators debate over who has jurisdiction over SPIKES futures trading on MGEX.
Russell 2000 Index derivatives blossom amid increased global demand for U.S. equities: FTSE Russell’s Sean Smith
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES Sean Smith, managing director of derivatives licenses at FTSE Russell, painted an upbeat picture of current Russell 2000 volume when he spoke to John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019. He credited global demand for small-cap...
Weekend Update: December 2-6 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project Alan Palmer came to the exchange as a 13-year-old and fell in love. He was hired the next summer as a runner on the trading floor. He has traded at the...
Ransomware Attack Hits FIA Tech Managed Service Provider CyrusOne
One of FIA Tech’s managed service providers, CyrusOne, was the target of a ransomware attack that knocked out three services FIA Tech offers from the data center. Two of those three services have been restored, one as of Wednesday morning and...
Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along
When you lose your digital assets, there isn’t exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It’s still the Wild West in a lot of ways...investors still get scammed, the heads of new platforms are still getting pinched for running unregistered...
Bad News Bear Market
This week on The Spread – options traders hedge like the world is ending, ICE launches options trades on Bakkt bitcoin futures, Cboe acquires Europe’s biggest stock trade clearing house, and the industry remembers a lost legend.
A Renaissance in clearing – John Davidson of the OCC
John Davidson, chief executive officer of the OCC, discussed how the clearer is revamping its entire system, replacing its legacy clearing technology with the new Renaissance initiative, which will operate in the public cloud.
The transition to data solutions and commercial hedging tools: CQG’s Ryan Moroney
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES At FIA Expo 2019, CQG President Ryan Moroney spoke with JLN about CQG's evolution from a products-based company to a "solutions-based" company 40 years in, and how its values- and ethics-based culture...
Keeping up with a growing industry: Trabue Bland of ICE Futures U.S.
Trabue Bland, president of ICE Futures U.S., discussed the growth of the FANG+ Index Futures, the impact of zero or low interest rates on ICE's clearing members and other market participants, how traders use data now compared to decades ago, and more at...
Swaps proficiency requirements and other initiatives: the NFA’s Tom Sexton
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES The National Futures Association (NFA)'s swaps proficiency requirements will be implemented in January 2020. Tom Sexton, NFA's president and CEO, spoke with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the work that went...
Turbulence at the #1 Bitcoin SEF in the World
In the middle of Monday afternoon, the board of directors of LedgerX Holdings announced with a press release that each in the husband and wife team of Paul and Juthica Chou had been put on administrative leave from their roles as CEO and president, respectively.
Bringing Efficiency to the Raw Materials Markets: MaterialsXchange’s Mike Wisnefski
Mike Wisnefski, the CEO and co-founder of MaterialsXchange, spoke to John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 about bringing transparency and efficiency to the raw materials markets.
Jim Downs – Open Outcry Traders History Project
Jim Downs learned about the CBOE from a personal finance class while an engineering student. He loved modeling the markets and found his way to the CBOE. After reading the Black-Scholes paper, he reverse engineered it in the Basic coding language on an Apple IIE.
Regulator Rumble
This week on The Spread – Bakkt’s CEO heads to Washington, the VIX perks up for the first time since October, and regulators debate over who has jurisdiction over SPIKES futures trading on MGEX.
Russell 2000 Index derivatives blossom amid increased global demand for U.S. equities: FTSE Russell’s Sean Smith
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES Sean Smith, managing director of derivatives licenses at FTSE Russell, painted an upbeat picture of current Russell 2000 volume when he spoke to John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019. He credited global demand for small-cap...
Weekend Update: December 2-6 2019
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK Alan Palmer – Open Outcry Traders History Project Alan Palmer came to the exchange as a 13-year-old and fell in love. He was hired the next summer as a runner on the trading floor. He has traded at the...
Ransomware Attack Hits FIA Tech Managed Service Provider CyrusOne
One of FIA Tech’s managed service providers, CyrusOne, was the target of a ransomware attack that knocked out three services FIA Tech offers from the data center. Two of those three services have been restored, one as of Wednesday morning and...
Grayscale wants digital asset regulators and investors to get along
When you lose your digital assets, there isn’t exactly a 1-800 number you can call to seek legal recompense. It’s still the Wild West in a lot of ways...investors still get scammed, the heads of new platforms are still getting pinched for running unregistered...
Changing Paradigms : Chris Hehmeyer of Hehmeyer Trading + Investments
Low volatility, regulatory uncertainty, lack of transparency – there is no shortage of challenges for those trading in the digital asset market. Chris Hehmeyer joined JLN at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss how his firm, Hehmeyer Trading + Investments, is meeting these challenges.
Risk Management, Analytics and Parallel Processing: Tom Watson of Hanweck
Tom Watson, head of sales at Hanweck, sat down with JLN at FIA Expo to talk about Hanweck’s branching out into international markets and margin analytics and how GPU-based computing is changing the industry landscape.
