Hester Peirce’s arrival to the main stage at the Block(Legal)Tech Conference in Chicago on October 24 felt like the arrival of a celebrity. Her awareness of the esteem in which the audience held her was apparent as she opened with the joke,...
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Chicago is Crypto-fuel For the Coinbase Rocket
My meeting with Paul Bauerschmidt has been reset three times and he's running a few minutes late for our coffee in Chicago. It's understandable. Since taking the role as co-head of Coinbase's Chicago office last October, it's been...
Crypto Regulation Is Just Getting Started
One thing is certain about regulation of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. We're in the earliest of stages. And we're caught between industry participants clamoring for clarity and regulators taking varied and measured...
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CME Group to Launch a Global Emissions Offset (GEO) Futures Contract on March 1
First Read $27,051/$300,000 (9.0%) Jeremy Grant ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff Janet Yellen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Treasury Secretary, the first woman to hold the position first occupied by Alexander Hamilton. The vote was 85-14...
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Retail Traders Are Piling Into Viral Options Calls at All-Time High Level
Observations & Insight Sarah Ponczek of Bloomberg News shared on Twitter that 32 million call options traded yesterday, the second most on record, only behind a day last November. Lead Stories Retail Traders Are Piling Into Viral Options Calls at All-Time High...
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