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The Thorny Speed Bump Question
If the industry can agree on one thing, it’s to disagree about speed bumps. In this video, Chicago Trading Company Head of Market Structure and Electronic Trading Strategy Steve Crutchfield talks about why he is in favor of ICE’s recently...
Spoofing charges dropped against Chicago developer; Automation is the future of futures markets
Last year, during a crackdown on spoofing — a form of high-speed computer trading fraud — federal prosecutors charged a Chicago software developer with creating a program that helped a rogue trader net millions in illegal gains.
SIFMA on Strike Listing Procedures; SocGen Closes Commodities Desk; Spoofing Trial Coverage
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter Observations & InsightHung Jury in Trial of US v ThakkarThom Thompson - John Lothian NewsThe trial of Jitesh Thakkar for aiding and abetting two instances of spoofing - which were executed...
The Great Migration – Rick Lane, Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies announced the sunsetting of its X_Trader platform at the end of 2018 which means that a large part of 2019 will be spent migrating its remaining user base to the new TT platform. But that’s not the only thing Trading...
OCC plans cash management fee; Short-vol crushed in January; Selling time to traders
Observations & Insight Slippery Slope: Let's Let Markets Decide On New Contracts Jim Kharouf - JLN Do exchanges need further regulation on the contracts they launch? That is the question the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is addressing now with the so-called...
Views On Low Vol; Lightspeed Merging Business With Lime Brokerage
Observations & Insight U.S. Government Nears Shutdown With GOP Stopgap Bill at the Brink Bloomberg Temporary government funding runs out at midnight Friday and the House and Senate are seeking an agreement on a temporary extension. Democrats are demanding that...
OCC 2017 Total Contract Volume 3rd Highest Ever; Markets must prep for more volatility
Lead Stories OCC 2017 Total Cleared Contract Volume Up Four Percent, Third Highest Volume Year Ever OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced 2017 volume reached the third highest total cleared contract volume ever with...
OCC tech upgrade; Robinhood’s free options trading; 50 Cent’s losses
Lead Stories Tech Upgrade Commands CFO's Focus; Amy Shelly of Options Clearing Corp. faces several challenges in replacing the organization's outdated platform. David McCann - CFO Magazine The privately held financial-market utility that settles and clears...
ICE to ‘Go West’ with Chicago-to-Tokyo network; Tulip Fever: There’s a Digital Token for That
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Kevin Wolf, formerly of ViableMkts and Eris Exchange, is now U.S. head of FICC at Euronext. ~JJL Jim Gorman, formerly of Modern Market Initiative and BATS, is now director of Media Relations and Internal Communications at...
NYSE Told Major Outage in 2015 May Have Broken Securities Rules; The Race to the Speed of Light Is Accelerating; Rolling Back the Fiduciary Rule – a Primer on Making (and Unmaking) a Regulation
First Read Solidifying an American foothold: LSEG's UnaVista and MTS platforms look to expand Spencer Doar - JLN The London Stock Exchange Group has plenty of reasons to be in the news due to its pending merger with Deutsche Boerse, but while all of those discussions...
Fraser Bell, BSO – Change Is The Only Constant
“Technology is affecting everyone. Just simple things we take for granted have a massive, massive infrastructure behind them, a massive amount of money behind them, and a massive amount of intellectual capital to make technology seem very simple.” In this MarketsWiki...
Steve Hamilton, CurveGlobal – Demystifying the Current Trading Environment
Steve Hamilton, COO of CurveGlobal, doesn’t buy the over-the-top headlines about the state of trading. To him, the evolution of the market has been logical, and not as drastic as some would have you believe. The bottom line is that people still make trading...
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Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Euro Bets at Fastest Pace Since February
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