Mike Unetich always liked trading and investing classes in college and in fact started trading options from his dorm room. He saw newspaper ads for option floor clerks and through some friends who worked at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg in New York was referred to DRW in Chicago, where he was hired.
Chris Isaacson, Cboe Global Markets executive VP and chief operating officer, talked to JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the exchange operator’s next steps after finishing the three-year-long migration of Cboe’s exchanges to Bats technology.
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Ray Dalio, refuting a story from Friday, says Bridgewater has no net short bet against stocks. For the record, no hedge fund ever has a net short bet. That is not what they do. Hedge funds hedge, in some way.~JJL Cboe has a...
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 Industry Leader SeriesRick Lane, Chairman and CEO of Trading Technologies, sat down with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 to talk about market expansion and rebuilding at TT. He explains how TT is using its software as a service platform to try to...
Vela Trading Product Manager Ahmed Heikal sat down with John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss some of the tech company’s latest initiatives, including the low-latency Ticker Plant appliance with FPGA card that he described as a...
ESGs, S&P E-Minis, and Bitcoin Options – oh my! Tim McCourt stopped by the Eurex booth at FIA Expo 2019 to discuss how consumer demand has shaped the CME’s latest product offerings.
At FIA Expo 2019, Bikram Singh, the founder and CEO of EZOPS, talked with JLN about his company’s mission to apply machine learning in the post-trade process. Machine learning has been used in the front office for a while, but he says EZOPS uses it to maximize operational efficiencies to help the C-Suite minimize the time and resources spend dealing with reconciliation and managing data quality and correct “bad” data at its source.
FIA Expo is October 16-18. In this video, FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken discusses what to expect from this year's gathering of more than 4,500 attendees representing 1,250 companies. Produced by Mike Forrester John...
At the 33rd Annual FIA Futures and Options Expo in mid-October, John Lothian News spoke with a variety of industry participants about upcoming milestones and trends in financial markets. This third video in the series covers the effects and future of the big data boom...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN ICE has made the inaugural Fortune Future 50 list, their ranking of companies best positioned for breakout growth.~JJL The FIA Expo panel on the geography of fintech was a draw regarding which city is best - London, Frankfurt/Berlin,...
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. At the innovators pavilion,...
Market data and information service looks to disrupt the Bloomberg and Reuters space with new ultra-low priced offering The winner of the FIA's first ever competition for Innovator of the Year at the 2016 Expo in Chicago was Money.net, which was chosen by a panel of...
Observations & Insight Run Gary Run By Jim Kharouf It has been almost two years since Gary Gensler left the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as perhaps its most talked about, debated and in some circles, despised chairman. To some, his unrelenting drive to...
Observations & Insight Welcome to FIA EXPO Week By John J. Lothian Welcome to FIA EXPO week in Chicago. The global derivatives/financial/technology industry converges on the Hilton on South Michigan Avenue tomorrow as the conference officially begins then. It will...
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