Lead Stories HNA unveils New York-based charity as controlling shareholder; Acquisitive Chinese investor's surprise revelation as lenders turn off taps JOYCE HO, Nikkei Acquisitive Chinese outbound investor HNA Group has openly disclosed its shareholding structure for...
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Lead Stories Welcome to Xi's Net: Where Politics, Porn and Pooh Are Forbidden Bloomberg News For anyone still wondering about China’s ability, or willingness, to control its people’s access to the internet, the past few weeks have provided some clarity....
The Snowballing Power of the VIX, Wall Street’s Fear Index; Wall Street’s self-regulator allows safe havens for tainted brokers; Trump Team Proposes Broad Rethink of Financial Rulebook
First Read Line-up for MarketsWiki Education Series in NY and Chicago By John J. Lothian We have set the line-ups of speakers for the MarketsWiki Education series in New York and Chicago. Here is the list of the speakers and the days they will be presenting. On July...
Singapore bourse offers to link up with Chinese futures trading venture; Twitter Teams Up With Bloomberg for Streaming News; Calypso and R3 successfully test FX trade matching on Corda DLT platform
First Read Trading Technologies Goes Big with TT Desktop Anthony Malakian - WatersTechnology TT CEO Rick Lane talks with Waters about the vendor's new desktop offering, which can accommodate 18 monitors, if not more. Prior to this release, the TT platform was only...
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...
Downey’s Money.net Takes FIA Innovator Award
Market data and information service looks to disrupt the Bloomberg and Reuters space with new ultra-low priced offering The winner of the FIA's first ever competition for Innovator of the Year at the 2016 Expo in Chicago was Money.net, which was chosen by a panel of...
CHX: Ownership Matters
Chicago Stock Exchange Seeks Transformation in New Owners and Trading Processes With over 50 venues in the U.S. to execute trading of shares of stock, the Chicago Stock Exchange (“CHX”) unfortunately only stands out for its being overlooked. Its management seeks to...
Data and Fintech Rocking the Free World
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FinTech Exchange Chicago Gets Democratic
FinTech Exchange Chicago 2015, hosted by Barchart, was held on April 23 and featured a host of great speakers. Scroll down to see the "Best of the Lightning Round" video, or several of the full presentations. To see the full layout and design: click HERE.
FinTech Chicago Gets Democratic
Today's financial technology dialog is often about a word you don't usually associate with it - democracy - bringing software, data, reporting, testing and trading to the masses.And it's not just one size for everyone - its customizable too. At the FinTech Exchange...
John Lothian Newsletter: Hillary Clinton Said to Hire Former Wall Street Cop as Campaign CFO; BATS to Launch Second U.S. Options Exchange; FINRA Board Approves Changes to Communications With the Public Rules, Trading Activity Fee
First Read Tech Surge: Nasdaq's Lars Ottersgard on New Developments in the Technology Space JohnLothianNews.com Nasdaq, the world's first electronic stock market, is almost synonymous with technology, from listings to licensing. John Lothian News spoke with Lars...
Bloomberg Gets a Newsroom Boost
The newest star of the hit HBO series The Newsroom is not a geek, nor a brainy/hottie actress, nor a former workout video star who made controversial choices during the Vietnam War era. The newest star is the Bloomberg terminal. I am a big fan of the show from Aaron...
John Lothian Newsletter: Euronext sees regulatory backing for spin-off in Feb; Bloomberg Leads SEF Market Share; Exporting U.S. Rules for Foreign Banks
First Read Financial Reform Remains a Work in Progress SIMON JOHNSON - NYTimes.com Of all the arguments put forward by big banks and their allies in recent years against financial reform, the line that surfaced last week was arguably the most strange. Wall Street has...
Managed Futures Bloomberged, Part 1
Wow! That was quite the trashing of managed futures in a Bloomberg story by David Evans on Tuesday. The Gawker website took the story about managed futures to new depths with this headline: "Here Is Perhaps the Single Biggest Ripoff on Wall Street" If I was selling...
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First Read $24,451/$300,000 (8.2%) ++++ A more perfect union; FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken shares a personal perspective on Washington riots Walt Lukken - FIA Normally, this column offers opinions on the global policies and trends of our industry, but last week's...
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