First Read Hits & Takes By John Lothian & JLN Staff On Friday I attempted to apply for a Payroll Protection Plan loan, which is part of the CARES Act to help small businesses. However, it turns out the bank I do commercial business with is not part of the...
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Talk about timing. Ten years after the collapse of the global financial market and a decade of rebuilding it, Nasdaq reports that Nasdaq Clearing had to cover for a clearing member default of €114 million on Nasdaq Nordic, a default...
Observations & Insight Lessons From the "Not Guilty" Verdict in This Week's Criminal Spoofing Trial Renato Mariotti, former federal prosecutor - JLN Wednesday's stunning "not guilty" verdict in United States v. Andre Flotron,...
Observations & Insight Miscellany of the Day Spencer Doar - JLN Cboe turned 45 years young and Russell Rhoads has a blog out with 45 facts about Cboe - I forgot seats were originally offered for $10,000. Using a U.S. Inflation Calculator site, the cost of a seat...
Observations & Insight Congressional CFTC Budget Decision Lacks Vision and Reason John Lothian - JLN A reasonable person could see that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission needs an increase in its budget to address the growing responsibility it has...
First Read Renato Mariotti for Illinois Attorney General; A Former Prosecutor and Current JLN Reader Is The Best Choice For Illinois AG John Lothian - JLN Democratic Attorney General candidate Renato Mariotti stopped by the John Lothian News offices in the Chicago...
Observations & Insight Thaler, Famed for 'Nudge' Theory, Wins Nobel Economics Prize Jonas O Bergman - Bloomberg University of Chicago's Richard H. Thaler, one of the founders of behavioral economics and finance, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for...
Observations & Insight Crypto Developments of the Week - There Were a Lot Spencer Doar - JLN The news just won't stop in the crypto space and with the big exchanges making moves, new platforms seemingly launched every day, ETFs trying to get off the ground and...
Observations & Insight June 2017 Options Exchange Marketshare via OCC ++++++ OCC Cleared Contract Volume Up Two Percent in June OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, announced today that cleared contract volume in June reached...
Financial Reform Objectives at Odds with Effects of Rules What’s a market maker to do when it can’t warehouse risk? The options industry has a problem with bank capital rules. In this JLN video, Steve Crutchfield, head of market...
First Read New CEO, Updated Offices By John J. Lothian, Executive Chairman Today is the first day in the reign of Jim Kharouf as king....err... CEO of John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. He takes command in our newly updated offices in the CBOT Building, which are not...
First Read Ringing In New Year's Resolutions Jim Kharouf, JLN Some years are more important than others. The trick is guessing what's going to happen ahead of those. Welcome to 2017, the year of Trump, the true start of Brexit, the end of the trading floors in some...
The unintended consequences of financial regulation have been seeping into the markets since the first rule was made in the wake of the financial crisis. One prime example is the leverage ratio, which determines the required capital...
First Read $49,706/$300,000 (16.6%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The NFA has posted videos on their website from their member regulatory workshops held in May. NFA staff discussed a variety of topics, such as virtual exam tips and...
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Observations & Insight Looking for 'the Right Type of Disruption' in the Wild West of Hemp JohnLothianNews.com After a long career in exchange-traded derivatives, Jack Bouroudjian, chairman of the Global Smart Commodity Group, is doing an about-face, turning to...
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