First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Cboe's Jacqueline Stewart was the recipient of the Cboe's "Outstanding Community Service Award" for 2019. Congratulations to Jacqueline on her outstanding work.~JJL The CME Group's E-mini S&P 500 ESG...
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HKEx May Have Reached Its Peak; Crypto Could Be Lifeline for CHX; Hundreds of European stocks barred from dark pools
First Read Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets Divisions of Enforcement and Trading and Markets SEC Online trading platforms have become a popular way investors can buy and sell digital assets, including coins and tokens...
Frankfurt Emerges as Biggest Banking Winner After Brexit; State Street Exits Its Dark Pool, Selling BlockCross to Instinet; U.K.’s Euro Clearing Business at Risk as ECB Requests More Powers
First Read Making the Johannesburg Stock Exchange a Global Player JohnLothianNews.com "The JSE, for eight years in a row now, was rated number one, two or three in the world by the World Economic Forum for the quality of financial market regulation." The Johannesburg...
UK court upholds ICE Trayport sale order; State Street to Start Voting Against Companies That Don’t Have Women Directors; AI technology to replace 90,000 buy-side jobs by 2025
First Read Rosenthal Collins Group Appoints Matthew Straight CIO Press Release Rosenthal Collins Group LLC (RCG), a leading independent futures clearing firm, announced the appointment of Matthew Straight as its new Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice...
NYSE, Former IEX Foe, Plans a Copycat Speed Bump of Its Own; MarketAxess breaks annual trading volume record; BlackRock jilts State Street, moves $1 trillion in custody assets to JPMorgan
First Read NYSE Outlines 2017 Equity Market Strategy: Intercontinental Exchange NYSE Group, part of Intercontinental Exchange, today detailed its equity markets strategy, which aims to deliver greater choice for corporate and ETF issuers and to investors by offering...
John Lothian Newsletter: Prosecutors Are Not Amused by Hidden Trading Markups; The Coming Default Wave Is Shaping Up to Be Among Most Painful; Wall Street Is Edging Toward Win on Derivatives Capital Rule
First Read Bits & Pieces By JLN Staff Elisabeth Samuels has joined GreenKey Technologies as managing director. She formerly worked for Eurex's Chicago office. The PTG has created a committee on diversity and made this a major issue for 2016. They are working with...
Ivers Riley: A Man for All Markets
There are pioneers, innovators and leaders in every industry. Ivers Riley is one of the rare individuals to wear all three titles. Riley, who died February 17, 2015, at the age of 82, is one of those executives who was part of several transformational events in the...
John Lothian Newsletter: State Street set to begin trading futures for rival institutions; BOE Suspends Staff Member in Forex Probe; GBP75 Trillion Payment Systems Industry To Have New Regulator
First Read The Snow Takes Its Toll John and many thousands of others are taking their time on the way to work today, enjoying the delightful new snow and expressing their gratitude at having been chosen to receive another generous helping of the stuff. He’ll return...
John Lothian Newsletter: Chicago exchange gets investments from State Street, Fidelity unit; Gensler Calls for Overhaul of Libor; Nordic Banks Gain New Status: Haven
Chicago’s new Eris Exchange gets backing from State Street and Fidelity. Gary Gensler of the CFTC tells the EU parliament that they should either rework LIBOR, or just throw it away and start over. Banks in Sweden and Norway, relatively unharmed by financial crises...
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First Read $9,141/$300,000 (3%) Diane Saucier ++++ Peter Wind, Longtime Industry Colleague and Mentor, Passes Away By John J. Lothian It is with a heavy heart I report that former Cargill Investor Services (CIS) executive Peter Wind has passed away at the age of 70....
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