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‘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...
“Regulatory Creep” – Legal Issues in U.S. v. Thakkar
Thursday afternoon as part of the FIA Law & Compliance Conference, Marc Nagel, attorney advisor to the derivatives training firm Exchange Analytics, moderated a panel composed of attorneys Gary DeWaal and Renato Mariotti discussing the...
The Industry Discusses Potential Changes to Dodd-Frank
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 seventh and final video in the series...
The Industry Discusses Cryptocurrencies and DLT, Part II
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 sixth video in the series is the second to cover the booming cryptocurrency...
Setting the Stage for Regulatory Divergence
At Trading Chicago presented by FOW and John Lothian News, Gary DeWaal, special counsel with Katten Muchin Rosenman, spoke to JLN about how the United States is beginning to diverge from the rest of the world on financial regulatory...
Impact: Navigating Regulation and What Comes Next, Part 2
At FIA Expo 2016, JLN spoke with a variety of participants in today’s markets about the ongoing effects of regulation and what those mean for the future of their businesses. In Part 2 of our three-part series, Gary DeWaal, special counsel with Katten Muchin Rosenman...
Gary DeWaal, Katten Muchin Rosenman – Regulation, Compliance and the Grandma Test
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and remember to apply 'the grandma test.'" When you are faced with a difficult decision, picture this: you're sitting at Thanksgiving dinner, the family is gathered around the table, and grandma comes in holding a...
MarketsWiki Education New York 2016 – Schedule and Speaker Information
MarketsWiki Education is back for another year in New York, and this year's lineup is as strong as ever. Note: Registration for the New York event has closed. For more information about MarketsWiki Education, click HERE. To see a full list of past sessions, visit our...
MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity Series 2016 Schedule Announced
4th Annual Education series will stop in four cities in 2016Do you want to help the next generation?The 4th Annual MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series is coming to five cities in 2016, including Chicago on July 12th, 14th and 15th, New York on July 19th...
Sweet 16: The Tops for 2016
At last fall's FIA Expo Chicago, John Lothian News partnered with Cinnober Financial Technology to bring you industry conversations, where we conduct short interviews with industry participants on the important topics facing the...
Sweet 16: The Tops For 2016 – Regulation
Regulation is always front and center and it will be once again next year. In our John Lothian News Sweet 16 Series, we spoke with Timothy Massad, Gary DeWaal, Dan Roth and Marisol Collazo about everything from the CFTC's regulatory...
John Lothian Newsletter: On the Defensive, the S.E.C. Quietly Pursues High-Profile Cases; CBOE Holdings Completes Acquisition of Livevol Data, Analytics Platforms; Algorithmic Trading: The Play-at-Home Version
First Read ++++ Chicago Intern Education Series Day 3 Wrap-Up Sarah Rudolph - John Lothian News For our final day of the 2015 MarketsWiki Intern Education Series in Chicago, hosted by Trading Technologies, our special guest was the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, who told...
John Lothian Newsletter: Hedge Funds Keep Winning Despite Losing; Bank of England’s Carney urges ‘big push’ on bank rules; John Whitehead, Ex-Chairman Who Helped Define Goldman Culture, Dies at 92
First Read Making A Call Around the Pits by John J. Lothian It seems like a lifetime ago, when I used to publish daily statistics in this newsletter about the percentage of open outcry trading versus electronic trading at the CBOT and CME. It was a fun daily exercise,...
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First Read $29,826/$300,000 (9.9%) Charles Bohm ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The CME set new record volumes in the Ultra 10-Year Note and 30-Year Bond futures on February 23. Ultra 10-Year Note futures reached a record volume of 1.7 million...
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GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
GameStop shares on track to triple for week as options trading spikes; GameStop short-sellers have lost $1.9 billion in just 2 days amid the stock’s latest spike
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