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LSE Working On More Italian Derivatives Growth

by Spencer Doar | Jun 20, 2017

“We are also working and in close contact with the clearinghouse, because one of the key elements in developing derivatives markets now and probably in the time to come is post-trade efficiency.” The LSE bought Borsa Italiana in 2007. Nicolas Bertrand, the LSE’s head...

Blame options expiration, not politics, for stock-market pullback, says top quant; Lessons From The greatest macro trader you’ve never heard of; What to Make of the Lowest VIX Ever

by Spencer Doar | Mar 22, 2017

Observations & Insight Westminster attack: man shot after police officer stabbed and several injured in related incident - live updates The Guardian /goo.gl/nzJxlT ****SD: Much is still unknown about what exactly happened in London today. The link above is a good...

John Lothian Newsletter: Deutsche Börse CEO braced for regulatory scrutiny over LSE deal; Ex-Citi Trader’s Bitcoin Exchange Skirts Currency Curbs; Lessons From a Bank Heist

by JLN Staff | May 31, 2016

First ReadEducation is Everything: MarketsWiki Education, Chicago 2016John Lothian - John Lothian NewsThere are lots of ways to get an education. One of the questions we ask in our John Lothian Profiles videos is "What did the markets teach you the hard way?" Getting...

John Lothian Newsletter: Wall Street watchdog has unfinished business with bad brokers; US renews push for monitoring equity market; ICE’s $650m Trayport deal set for lengthy probe

by JLN Staff | Apr 28, 2016

First Read Battle Fronts Doug Ashburn - JLN In his famous axiom, Von Clausewitz (a Prussian general and military theorist) called war "the continuation of policy by other means." In the great global exchange war, it seems to be working the other way, with policy...

John Lothian Newsletter: LSE chief dismisses American suitor as ‘slash and burn interloper’; Sovereign wealth funds push for higher hedge fund standards; CME Group Appoints Paul Houston as Global Head of FX

by JLN Staff | Apr 4, 2016

First Read 2016 Exchange CEO Series: SGX's Boon Chye Expanding With New Products, New Platform in 2016 JohnLothianNews.com Loh Boon Chye took over the Singapore Exchange CEO post in July 2015 with a focus on growing the overall business in derivatives, clearing and...

John Lothian Newsletter: City of London split over LSE-Deutsche Börse merger; Customer reporting failures top big bank fines; Big Banks’ Mermaid Problem

by JLN Staff | Mar 28, 2016

First Read John's Back, Redux By John J. Lothian I am back editing this newsletter with a back brace reminding me to mind my activities. My recovery has been good, though I am still struggling to sleep when I am supposed to. I want you to know that this latest surgery...

John Lothian Newsletter: Professor to Wall Street: You’re Doing Swaps Accounting Wrong; SEC urged to beef up trading safeguards; Nasdaq Just Took a Step Toward Challenging the Flash Boys Bourse

by JLN Staff | Mar 11, 2016

First Read BlockChain, BlockChain Wherefore Art Thou? (Progress, that's wherefore!) Carl Gilmore, President, Integritas Financial Consulting There has been a lot of ink spilled lately about bitcoin and the underlying technology, blockchain, that makes digital...

John Lothian Newsletter: LSE’s Derivatives Market to Launch Despite Talks With Rival; Exchange consolidation puts clearing house risk in the spotlight; U.S. watchdog to probe Fed’s lax oversight of Wall Street

by JLN Staff | Mar 7, 2016

First Read 2016 and Counting... Carl Gilmore, President, Integritas Financial Consulting Good morning John Lothian Newsletter readers! It is good to be back as the guest editor for the week, and I want to thank my friends at JLN for the opportunity. For those of you...

John Lothian Newsletter: NYSE Owner ICE, CME Group Mulling Bids for LSE; U.S. Mortgage-Bond Proposal to Melt 8-Year Freeze Advances; IEX Adjusts Exchange Application to Circumvent Key Objection

by JLN Staff | Mar 1, 2016

First Read Getting My Start Don Wilson, CEO, DRW Holdings, this week's guest editor I came to my career choice the way many students do—trying a few things until something sticks. When I started college at the University of Chicago, I was interested in science and...

John Lothian Newsletter: Swiss Investigate Seven Banks Over Precious Metals Market Trading; EU watchdog unveils new rules for bloc’s securities markets; UnaVista and DTCC to provide MiFIR reporting service

by JLN Staff | Sep 28, 2015

First Read Bits & Pieces By John J. Lothian If you are not watching our MarketsWiki Education Summer Intern Education series videos, you are missing a lot. Today we have Joe Niciforo, who with the help of Paul Tudor Jones, is looking for the next generation of...

John Lothian Newsletter: SEC Set to Approve CEO Pay-Gap Disclosure Rule; An Exchange in Australia Woos Listings From China; China Hopes to Defy History of Market Bailouts

by JLN Staff | Aug 5, 2015

First Read ++++ MarketsWiki Education Summer Intern Series - Day One By Sarah Rudolph, Managing Editor, JLN Our Chicago Summer Intern Series kicked off with a packed auditorium at IIT and five lively speakers, who all spoke about their passion for the trading...

John Lothian Newsletter: Dealmaking saga over GFI nears conclusion; China Short Sellers Shun Stock Link With Zero Trade on Debut; SEC plans to level playing field for newer ETF firms

by JLN Staff | Mar 2, 2015

First Read NY Financial Writers Elect Burne, Move 'Follies' By Jack O'Dwyer Katy Burne, a U.K. J grad who reports for the Wall Street Journal, is 2015 president of the New York Financial Writers Assn. which, after many years, is switching its "Follies" show from the...

John Lothian Newsletter: CFTC to propose swaps anonymity; Clearing brokers to raise fee structure for buy-side, says Catalyst; Toronto Stock Exchange warns on retail flow to US markets

by JLN Staff | Feb 17, 2015

First Read Pressure builds to move more FX trading onto exchanges By Patrick Graham and Jamie McGeever, Reuters International regulators struggling to rein in the $5 trillion-a-day global foreign exchange market are finally finding some support from asset managers...