Catherine Clay

CATHERINE CLAY: CBOE’S INFORMATION SOLUTIONS USING DATA TOOLS TO BUILD BUSINESS

by Suzanne Cosgrove | Jun 12, 2020

After capping a series of acquisitions with the purchase of Trade Alert, Cboe's senior vice president and head of information solutions talks about why data and analytics are now essential exchange offerings.

FinTech Exchange: Clay on Innovating During CBOE’s Corporate “Middle Age”

by Spencer Doar | May 4, 2017

Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity when he was 36. Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night when he was 36, and Mozart wrote 626 works before dying one month before turning 36. The CBOE turned 44 in April. In...

D is for Data: FinTech Exchange

by John Lothian | Apr 28, 2017

The sold-out FinTech Exchange conference, hosted by Barchart, was largely about data - what to do with data, how exchanges are capturing new data and how to trade it. That, on its surface, isn't particularly new. But the...

Tax-reporting Changes for Options Trading

by JLN Staff | Feb 7, 2014

By Catherine Clay, CEO of Livevol No one ever said trading options was simple. Unfortunately, the same is true of tax treatment of options gains or losses. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), new IRS regulations regarding options trading...

Options – A Must Have in Every Advisers’ Toolbox

by JLN Staff | Feb 6, 2014

By Catherine Clay, CEO of Livevol Yesterday, I wrote about the increase in option volumes from “Mom and Pop” traders. Today I want to note the increased trading volumes originating from independent option advisers. Before 2004, many advisers did not trade options,...

The Changing Face of “Mom and Pop” Traders

by Sarah Rudolph | Feb 5, 2014

By Catherine Clay, CEO of Livevol When Andy Nybo talks, I pay close attention. I’m sure I’m not alone because Andy, head of derivatives research at the TABB Group, delivers some great research. Some of his recent research concerns the rise of the individual retail...

The Rise of the VIX ETP

by JLN Staff | Feb 4, 2014

By Catherine Clay - Livevol, CEO As the VIX heads toward the 20 mark, it is fitting to wish a Happy Birthday to two VIX ETPs: VXX and VXZ. These five-year-old volatility products made their debut in January 2009, and have generated a tremendous amount of investor...

What the Skew Tells Us

by JLN Staff | Feb 3, 2014

EDITOR'S NOTE: We are pleased to have Catherine Clay, CEO of Livevol, as guest editor of JLN Options all this week. We welcome her opinions and the information and look forward to her insights the rest of the week. It is a genuine pleasure to be guest editing the...