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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Wall Street banks ramp up research into quantum finance; U.K. Examines if Cyberattack Triggered London Stock Exchange Outage
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff A friend at the ASX shared information on where to send financial assistance to help those impacted by the disastrous fires there. Here are three organizations to send help for people, to help fight the...
Death of European Bond Volatility; BOE No-Deal Planning Won’t Stop Market Volatility – Cunliffe
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightWednesday MiscellanySpencer Doar - JLNMIAX Emerald opened for trading on March 1 with IBM as the only symbol to start. Per the OCC, through March 5th 403 contracts...
Fintech in 2019: The Year Cloud Computing Hype Gets Realized
We’ve been hearing the same buzzwords year after year - machine learning, big data, blockchain, cloud computing. In this video from STAC’s 93rd Annual Midwinter Meeting, USAM Group CEO Feargal O’Sullivan talks about why this is the year that...
Trading Venues and Best Execution – Roman Ginis, Imperative Execution
Roman Ginis, CEO and founder of Imperative Execution, knew from his time as a trader what issues he wanted to address when building a venue: adverse selection and market impact. These implicit costs of trading led to the development of...
Predictive Analytics: Finding the Right Patterns
Can we predict the future? Or at least have a better conception of potential outcomes? PreData is on the case. In this video, PreData CEO Hazem Dawani discusses how his firm approaches predictive analytics. (Hint: there's a lot of...
Market Structure: Why You Should Care – Kevin McPartland, Greenwich Associates
“I’m not a particularly good investor. I don’t know if my own portfolio is set up the way it should be. But I can certainly explain to you exactly how an equity trade comes from a pension fund and makes its way all the way down...
AI is changing this industry. Now what?
I spent last week listening to experts in artificial intelligence talk about what AI can and will bring to the markets and the broader world. What is patently clear is that AI is here now and is only going to expand. As Jay Biondo,...
TT’s Biondo Says AI Can Tackle Spoofing And More
It's been eight months since Trading Technologies purchased AI-driven regulatory software firm Neurensic. Since then the firm has integrated the software into the TT platform and rebranded the service as TT Score. Jay Biondo, product...
Shortwave trading; Robinhood’s $2b a day options biz; Mammoth bond wager
Observations & Insight A little-known business at Robinhood has exploded, and now it's launching a service to go after the most serious traders Frank Chaparro - Business Insider Prime (SUBSCRIPTION) Robinhood's options-trading...
Revamping Nasdaq’s Tech Approach – Lars Ottersgård, Nasdaq
After Adena Friedman became Nasdaq’s CEO at the end of 2016, the exchange group’s management team evaluated where would be best to invest moving forward. One decision out of that process was to shift to becoming more of a fully...
Myths and Misconceptions Surrounding Artificial Intelligence
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” -Alan Turing in 1950’s seminal “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” While it feels like only recently that company after company, 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...
Trump to tap Powell for Fed; UK fintechs eating banks marketshare; Regulators warning about robots
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Congratulations to CME Group employees who supported October Pink for a Purpose campaign. Their efforts brought in more than $50,000. When you include CME's corporate donations, more than $175,000 will go to @BeBrightPink and...
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China’s Inexorable Rise to Superpower Is History Repeating Itself
First Read $9,241/$300,000 (3.1%) Monica Mulvihill ++++ Hits & Takes JLN Staff The women of WILD are holding an online auction and spooky trivia event to support their "Next Generation Women in Finance Scholarship FUNraiser." The auction started on October 16 and...
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Scary Bitcoin volatility? $750M in BTC options set to expire for Halloween; US and European stocks slide on worsening Covid outbreaks
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