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The City of London Has a Slavery Problem; Virus Surges Across U.S., Throwing Reopenings Into Disarray
The City of London Has a Slavery Problem; Virus Surges Across U.S., Throwing Reopenings Into Disarray
FIA IDX-V: ESMA’s Verena Ross on Regulation and Priorities During COVID-19
Verena Ross, executive director of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said Tuesday that despite “unprecedented market reaction to the virus and government closings,” overall EU trading structures worked well during the COVID-19 crisis. In a...
Coronavirus Pandemic Likely to Last Two Years, Report Says; The Pandemic’s Long-Term Pain Is Just Becoming Clear to Markets
First Read Viewpoint: Community in a time of need By Walt Lukken - FIA Greetings from my home office/laundry room on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. The laundry is clean and put away! And thanks for all who posted photos of your home offices....
Regulators Seek to Loosen U.S. Exchanges’ Control Over Stock Data; Swiss Trader Spills Secrets of Global Insider-Trading Network
First Read Nothing Learned from the CFTC Bullying a Win in the Thakkar Case CFTC Commissioner Leadership Needed to End This Regulation by Litigation Case By John J. Lothian If Jitesh Thakkar loses his case brought by the Enforcement Division of...
Edward Wedbush, the Founder of Wedbush Securities, Dies at 87
First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffCboe Executive Vice President Bryan Harkins has been named to Autism Science Foundation Board of Directors. Keep up the good work, Bryan!~JJLJLN is getting ready to publish another commentary about the Jitesh Thakkar...
‘Questionable’ Death Prompts Call to Exhume Quadriga CEO’s Body; ASX creates the Aussie Nasdaq
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Nasdaq's TotalMarkets podcast episode 6 features Nasdaq's chief economist, Phil Mackintosh, interviewing T. Rowe Price's Mehmet Kinak on the topic of improving market structure.~SR Do you want to know...
Math Whiz Trades Without Humans to Build a $700 Million Fortune
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Dan Stern is the subject of today's MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project video. Stern is part of a prominent Chicago Board of Trade family of traders and lovers of soccer.~JJL John...
Swiss Bourse Access May Expire With No Progress on EU Pact; SGX hires Deutsche exec in reorganisation
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadCan LedgerX Deliver?Thom Thompson - John Lothian NewsOn Monday, June 24, the CFTC licensed LedgerX as a futures market and it joined the ranks of the CFTC triply crowned: swap...
OCC default fund shrinks $3 billion; EU fights over prop trader rules; Iranian derivatives
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & Insight Build or Buy? Exchanges Continue to Branch Out For Revenues Through Acquisition Jim Kharouf - JLN Exchanges are continuing to look at two areas for revenue...
ESMA Keeping Tight Leash On EU Trading Venues
Steven Maijoor, chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), said MiFID II rules launched in January are indeed living up to expectations of pushing more trading onto exchanges, but more work may be required. In...
Deutsche Bank ousts John Cryan and names Christian Sewing as chief
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff JLN Contributing Global Markets Editor Jim Kharouf will be in Washington, DC representing us at the IFM "Smart Financial Regulation Roundtable: Implications of Cryptocurrencies" event on April...
Finance chiefs warn on Big Tech; Trading venues buzzing; China to stamp out cryptocurrency trading
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Richard Sandor has a new book coming out, "Electronic Trading & Blockchain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." The book tells the story of his experience leading the first project to design and establish an electronic trading...
VIX bets surging; LCH begins credit options clearing; Fast moving stocks
Lead Stories Stock market volatility, VIX bets are surging Joe Ciolli - Business Insider Traders are betting more and more that the stock market will soon snap out of its prolonged slumber. This can be seen through a measure called skew, which looks at bullish CBOE...
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Pandemic’s latest spread triggers surge in VIX ‘fear gauge’ for U.S. stocks; Bitcoin’s Options Market Sees Just 6% Chance of $20K Before Year’s End
Pandemic’s latest spread triggers surge in VIX ‘fear gauge’ for U.S. stocks; Bitcoin’s Options Market Sees Just 6% Chance of $20K Before Year’s End
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