Special Reports
Special Reports
From Treasuries to Ameribor Futures: Doc Sandor talks about financial innovation
What's the tipping point that makes a new financial innovation successful? Dr. Richard Sandor presents a talk at the Cboe comparing the launch of Treasury Futures 42 years ago to AFX and Cboe's launch of Ameribor Futures on August 16. John...
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A Plethora of New Reference Rates
Ameribor is not the only new short-term interest rate vying for market attention. As part of the post-financial crisis reforms, global regulators are overseeing the abandonment of LIBOR, the London Interbank Offer Rate, in favor of new...
John Lothian News Special Report: The Launch of Ameribor
On Friday, August 16, The American Financial Exchange (AFX), headed by Dr. Richard Sandor, will launch the first futures on the Ameribor, an index designed to be a replacement for Libor, which had become badly tarnished by a manipulation...
Open Outcry Traders History Project Announced by John Lothian
John J. Lothian & Company, Inc., MarketsWiki Education and John Lothian Productions are pleased to announce plans for a large scale video project to collect the history of the open outcry era and traders’ personal stories. Additionally, John Lothian Productions plans to develop video documentaries about specific themes and subjects emerging from the collected personal histories.
Two Studies on Options Use – Institutional Users and European Demand
Over the past two months, two studies commissioned by the Options Industry Council were released. The studies about the varying uses of options by different market participants were conducted Greenwich Associates and Burton-Taylor...
The Options Industry Leader Series 2018 – NYSE’s Ivan Brown
In this video from the 36th annual Options Industry Conference (OIC) in Amelia Island, Fla., Ivan Brown, NYSE’s head of options, talks about launching options on the FANG+ index, implementing a complex price improvement auction...
The Options Industry Leader Series 2018 – Cboe’s Andy Lowenthal
In this video from the 36th annual Options Industry Conference (OIC) in Amelia Island, Fla., Andy Lowenthal, Cboe executive vice president and co-head of markets, talks about transitioning Cboe’s exchanges to Bats technology, the...
The Options Industry Leader Series 2018 – BOX’s Ed Boyle
In this video from the 36th annual Options Industry Conference (OIC) in Amelia Island, Fla., Ed Boyle, CEO of BOX, talks about constraints placed on the market making community, forward-starting daily options and options market...
The Options Industry Leader Series 2018 – Nasdaq’s Kevin Kennedy
Video series brought to you by OCC In this video from the 36th annual Options Industry Conference in Amelia Island, Fla., Kevin Kennedy, Nasdaq senior vice president and head of U.S. options, talks about how the industry weathered...
The Dawn of Crypto Regulation
On April 11, 2018, regulators, academics and market users gathered in Washington DC to discuss the issues, challenges and future of regulation for the digital asset space. Titled "Smart Financial Regulation Roundtable: Implications...
New Rules of the Road
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Deep Dive With JLN: How Can The Financial Industry Draw In The Next Generation Of Talent?
Note: Scroll to the bottom to view the video in three smaller segments. The future for the financial markets is bright, even if the headlines don't always say so. John Lothian News' CEO Jim Kharouf sat down with Brian Mehta, chief marketing officer at Trading...
Shipbuilding: RJ O’Brien Building Business in Tough Times
Gerry Corcoran has seen plenty of ups and downs in almost 30 years at RJ O'Brien & Associates. The key is to be a bit of a contrarian - which means building when others are tearing business units down. The firm, which holds $3.7...
We Can Rebuild It: SocGen Prime Services Group Reengineered And Growing
When Societe Generale struck a deal to buy Newedge in its entirety in 2014, some in the industry wondered one simple question — why?Newedge had been on the selling block for years and futures broking and clearing was not, and still...
Bite Sized: TD Ameritrade’s FCM Looks for Bigger Slice of Retail Pie
Who says there aren't any retail futures customers out there? Not TD Ameritrade.The online discount brokerage has built a steady book of futures business over the past several years as it looks to grow in the derivatives trading...
Full house: OptionsHouse Set To Grow Futures Business
In an era where some firms are exiting the FCM business, one sees opportunity.OptionsHouse, a long-time securities broker, is also officially a futures commission merchant, making it one of the few new recent entrants in the space....