First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Readers have asked and JLN staff have wondered what impact the coronavirus outbreak would have on the FIA International Conference in Boca Raton, Florida in March. The travel restrictions to and from...
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SEC Decision on 4 p.m. Closing Trades Deals Blow to NYSE, Nasdaq; The new kings of the bond market
First Read Cboe Wraps Up Tech Migration, Expands in Products and in Europe Suzanne Cosgrove - John Lothian News With its multi year technology migration finally wrapped up, Cboe Global Markets is returning its focus in 2020 to the expansion of...
Former CFTC Boss Says Vatican Letter Prepared Him To Be ‘Crypto Dad’
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Alan Palmer is the subject of today's MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project interview. Palmer has traded on the Midam, CME and CBOT.~JJL Do you have a smartphone? Did you trade on an...
Metadata, AI, and monitoring global risks: Predata’s Hazem Dawani
At FIA Expo 2019, Predata CEO Hazem Dawani explained metadata and how his company uses it to monitor the economic, social and security risks of more than 180 countries. Metadata allows the company to alert customers as to patterns and anomalous behavior early on that later lead to major events or shifts in online interests.
Machine Learning in the Back Office: Bikram Singh of EZOPS
At FIA Expo 2019, Bikram Singh, the founder and CEO of EZOPS, talked with JLN about his company’s mission to apply machine learning in the post-trade process. Machine learning has been used in the front office for a while, but he says EZOPS uses it to maximize operational efficiencies to help the C-Suite minimize the time and resources spend dealing with reconciliation and managing data quality and correct “bad” data at its source.
Riding the Regtech Wave with Voice Tech – Nader Shwayhat, GreenKey Technologies
There are a number of angles playing into the evolution of GreenKey Technologies’ voice recognition business over the past year. The consumer sector saw the continued rise of voice assistants - who doesn’t know Alexa? Advancements in...
How AI Will Invade Every Corner of Wall Street; Brussels ends Mifid fears with US derivatives trading ruling
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Mutual Admiration Society member Steve Grob has a blog post titled "Bitcoin futures - the best idea ever?"~JJL Lanre Sarumi, the CEO of Level Trading Field, is chumming the bitcoin waters with a blog post on Coindesk.com titled...
We All Love Data: Barchart’s Latest Move Continues The Trend Of Firms Pushing Further Into The Data Space
It's all in the data. Yesterday's announcement from Barchart about its new commodities data offering, called cmdty, is part of the drumbeat of new products and services that are designed to bring something new to the market participants they serve. "We want to...
How AI Is Reshaping ISVs: TT’s Rick Lane Looks at AI for Everything from Compliance to Finding Trading Opportunities
Trading Technologies announced yesterday the acquisition of Neurensic, an artificial intelligence regulation and compliance firm (terms were not disclosed). The deal brings Neurensic's AI technology into TT and provides a new...
The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI; U.S., EU fines on banks’ misconduct to top $400 billion by 2020
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Former JLNer Doug Ashburn's mom, Margaret Anne "Margie" Ashburn, 72, of Creve Coeur, died Saturday, September 23, 2017 at her home. Details on services are posted here. Our sincere condolences go out to Doug and Nancy Ashburn...
The High-Speed Trading Behind Your Amazon Purchase; Traders used poker games and food menus to make a killing off illegal trades and cover it up but then AI found out; LSE shareholders: no need for board overhaul if tie-up tanks
First Read JLN Exchange Leader Series 2017: By Leveraging Bats' Technology, CBOE's Tilly Wants To Expand Footprint JohnLothianNews.com CBOE Holdings arguably had its biggest year in history in 2016 with the purchase of Bats Global Markets for $3.2 billion. The deal...
UK court upholds ICE Trayport sale order; State Street to Start Voting Against Companies That Don’t Have Women Directors; AI technology to replace 90,000 buy-side jobs by 2025
First Read Rosenthal Collins Group Appoints Matthew Straight CIO Press Release Rosenthal Collins Group LLC (RCG), a leading independent futures clearing firm, announced the appointment of Matthew Straight as its new Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice...
Market grows for ‘regtech’, or AI for regulation; This Startup Is Using A.I. to Speed Up Financial Compliance; Elizabeth Warren urges Barack Obama to fire SEC chief Mary Jo White
First Read Bits & Pieces By Jim Kharouf Next week is one of the biggest weeks of the year for the industry, with FIA Expo in Chicago from October 18th (opening night) to October 20th. John Lothian News will be publishing two interesting pieces in the coming days...
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