Carlos Domingo is the founder of Securitize, the aptly-named blockchain company that securitizes assets in the form of digital tokens. The company recently signed a deal with an SEC and FINRA-registered broker-dealer and ATS called Distributed Technology Markets, LLC, and seems on track to become an end-to-end digital securities platform that offers both securities issuance and trading through secondary markets.
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The CryptoMarketsWiki Podcast Episode 13: Digital Assets to Scale
Magnus Almqvist is a technology, compliance, and market surveillance expert, and the head of exchange development for Exberry, a software development platform designed to help its customers create sophisticated new trading platforms fast, and with the ability to easily scale after launch.
How T3 Index’s “VIX-Like” Index for Bitcoin Works
T3 Index, the creators of the SPIKES Volatility Index have created a new volatility index, which uses bitcoin options to track the volatility of the world’s first and most widely-traded cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC).
Coinbase packs up Chicago office, brings talent to California
You know how coffee is best when it's either hot or iced, but once it becomes lukewarm nobody wants anything to do with it? That’s about where the crypto markets are right now. Like a fresh cup of coffee, in late 2017 to early 2018 the crypto...
The DLT Wars – Zohar Hod, Digital Asset
In this video from JLN’s Industry Leader Series, Digital Asset Chief Strategy Officer Zohar Hod talks about public versus private blockchains and how Digital Asset is positioning itself within the digital asset infrastructure space. Produced...
Digital Asset Open Sources its Smart Contract Language; Virtu and MarketAxess join forces on global project
In a move that surprised the courtroom, the defense in the trial of U.S. v Jitesh Thakkar rested its case shortly before 1:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. Thakkar’s attorney, Renato Mariotti, had called no witnesses in his defense.
Digital Asset promotes co-founder to CEO; Report Says Most Crypto Trading Volume Is Suspicious
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadSaving Big Money: How a small fintech firm figured out how to save banks billions with DLTJim Kharouf, JLNThere's a lot of chatter these days about the viability, perhaps even the...
U.S. Launches Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation; Fed to consider Volcker Rule modification
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Word has it that Kraken is about to open an office in Chicago, following a move by Coinbase aimed at attracting institutional customers to their exchanges.~JK The tZERO and BOX Digital Markets...
Deutsche Börse launches joint blockchain collateral project; Digital Asset’s New Challenger: DLT Disillusionment; The CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund says populism is now No. 1 market concern
First Read Dodd-Frank in Crosshairs as Law's Opponents Take Power; About 80% of rules mandated by 2010 law have been drafted or finalized. What happens next? By RYAN TRACY - WSJ The Dodd-Frank financial overhaul is one of the longest and most complex laws in U.S....
Jeff Levoff, Partner, DRW – Make a Market: Proprietary Trading in the Modern Era
"This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It's hard work to try to find positive expected value. That's what we do every day." Conceptually, proprietary trading is easy. One must follow two simple steps - finding positive expected value and managing the risk of positions...
John Lothian Newsletter: Intercontinental Builds Out Asset Pricing With Two Acquisitions; Whistleblower award for NYSE fine goes to HFT critic; Tullett Prebon bid to buy ICAP unit edges closer
First Read Risk vs. Reward - in the Markets and on the Water Don Wilson, CEO, DRW Holdings, this week's guest editor I've always seen clear parallels between competitive sailing (a passion of mine) and trading in the financial markets - it all goes back to the age-old...
John Lothian Newsletter: Headcount in trading slashed 20% over last five years; IEX to critics of its U.S. exchange bid: ‘We stand by our words’; Blythe Masters forges blockchain partnerships
First Read It's All About Jobs Jim Kharouf and Doug Ashburn, JLN It must be an election year since we're talking about jobs. And we're also talking about the future - primarily blockchain. In today's issue, the two threads are starting to pull together. On the one...
John Lothian Newsletter: IEX Debate Escalates With Public Knock to NYSE’s Systems; CME Takes Action to Curb Price Volatility in Cattle Futures; Millennials Are Starting to Change the Stock Market
First Read Goodbye SFOA, Hello ICDA Jim Kharouf - JLN Adapt or die is a well understood maxim in this industry. And so that's been embraced by Dan Day-Robinson, the chairman and change merchant for the new International Commodities and Derivatives Association. It was...
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