cybersecurity

20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance; Robinhood reviews options trading offering following suicide by customer

by Matt Raebel | Jun 19, 2020

20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance; Robinhood reviews options trading offering following suicide by customer

The Spread: Far From Business As Usual

by Matt Raebel | Apr 9, 2020

This week on The Spread - Eurex adds new options on an MSCI index, Craig Donohue is re-elected chairman of the OCC's board of directors, phishing scammers use fake COVID-19 alerts, and more.Produced by Mike Forrester.TranscriptionWelcome to The Spread, I’m...

Traders across Europe face up to the cost of failure; Basel derivative rules point to more pain for fund managers

by Matt Raebel | Jan 10, 2020

First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff FT Partners has a paper titled "The Rise of Challenger Banks." ~JJL OCC and Cboe, the hosts of the 2020 Options Industry Conference in Puerto Rico this April, announced that they have donated a combined...

Big VIX Options Trade Braces for a 2008-Like Volatility Surge; Pound Traders Struggle to Unpick Headlines and Hypotheticals

by Matt Raebel | Oct 28, 2019

See also: Volatility-Starved Yen Traders Feel Chills as Winter Comes Early, Risk-Shy Investors Aren’t Hoarding as Much Cash as You Might Think, and more.

Risk of Big Rates Swings on Brexit Vote Is Options Trading Arena; Charles Schwab on no-commission trading: ‘Wall Street would have never done this’

by Matt Raebel | Oct 18, 2019

See also: The Weekly Fix: Coming Full-Circle to a Mid-Cycle Adjustment; Wave and Vertalo start by tokenizing yield, with race horses and whiskey as long term possibilities, and more.

Cyber Security: If You Are Not Compliant, You Are Not Secure

by Jeff Bergstrom | Nov 12, 2018

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter If there is one phrase dreaded by all types of businesses in the US, it has to be "government regulation." So it was surprising to hear nearly all the speakers at the 2018 Global...

OCC taps AI for security; Option Traders Scared to Bet Against Market Meltup

by Spencer Doar | Oct 2, 2018

Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & Insight The Spread - Bumpy Road - 10/1 JohnLothianNews.com A speed bump? For options? Say it ain't so, Joe! Oh, it is so? Cool. For more details on the latency...

Cybersecurity and Technology Upgrades – John Davidson, OCC

by Spencer Doar | Apr 23, 2018

The OCC is in the process of making what is a big decision for a systemically important financial market utility (SIFMU) - how to best upgrade a tech stack responsible for clearing millions of options and futures contracts daily. In...

Interview with OCC’s Donohue; Boom in VIX trading; Industry bits

by Spencer Doar | Jan 31, 2018

Observations & Insight Bits and Pieces SD- JLN While the war of words over Cboe's end-of-day trading proposition regards equities, we're going to keep you updated, since the players involved are options exchange groups, too. Today's news pertains to Cboe and...

HFTers Jump Into Bitcoin; Oil Volatility; Calm Sterling

by Spencer Doar | Nov 22, 2017

Observations & Insight Why ISPs Are About To Spoil Your Thanksgiving Dinners: Food For Thought on Net Neutrality Repeal By Jeff Bergstrom - JLN Yesterday it was announced the F.C.C. plans a net neutrality repeal. This is not a particularly new story. The telecoms...

Commodities markets swell in size despite price slide; The Government Needs More Cyber Talent

by Jeff Bergstrom | Sep 28, 2017

First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff JLN sat down with Walt Lukken, President and CEO of the FIA, to discuss this year's EXPO event in Chicago. Innovation is the theme this year at EXPO and Lukken is looking for the next generation of ideas. Watch the video HERE....

VIX ETP concerns; Correlation issues; Market catalysts

by Spencer Doar | Sep 27, 2017

Observations & Insight The FT warns advertisers after discovering high levels of domain spoofing Jessica Davies - Digiday The Financial Times has investigated the scale of domain spoofing occurring against its site, and has been shocked by the results. The...

Cybersecurity is very, very tough: How a SIFMU’s cyber chief sees the threat

by Spencer Doar | Sep 25, 2017

The OCC’s new chief security officer talks about risks and prevention. It's alarming and getting ugly. The Equifax hack in March compromised the personal information of an estimated 40 percent of the United States population. The Bangladeshi central bank is down $81...

Election Marks Crossroads for SEC; SGX and the Baltic Exchange confirm completion of acquisition; How Blockchain Will Change Your Life

by Jeff Bergstrom | Nov 8, 2016

First Read CME takes emergency action to prepare for Election Day volatility Reuters CME Group Inc took emergency action on Monday to allow bigger-than-normal price swings in its interest rate futures on Election Day on Tuesday, as the market operator warned that the...