In a win for the CFTC, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals let the CFTC’s Commissioners breathe a bit more freely on Tuesday afternoon. The court ruled that the commissioners could not be required to provide testimony about their and the...
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Big Shoes To Fill: What Can Heath Tarbert Do For This Industry?
As the new CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert assembled his team last week with some new names and some staff he kept on from his predecessor Chris Giancarlo, it is clear that there is much work yet to be done in the derivatives space. The question...
Dash and LiquidPoint to Merge to Create Dash Financial Technologies; Volatility To Return In A Big Way This Year; 7 New Year’s Resolutions for the Options Investor
Observations & Insight OCC 2016 Cleared Contract Volume Fifth Highest Ever OCC OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, today announced 2016 total cleared contract volume reached 4,167,747,777 contracts, a one percent decrease from the...
CFTC’s Massad Recaps 2016
Chairman says Reg AT is next big item on the list to finish before yearend. The futures industry's regulator had several initiatives in 2016 but the top items were tackling the issue of cybersecurity, margin and the upcoming finalization of automated trading rules. On...
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 Honorable Mention – Regulation
Exchange leaders will be dealing with big changes at their respective companies in 2016, from launching new competing markets and dealing with new regulation to integrating new data acquisitions to expanding across different time zones.The John Lothian News Sweet 16...
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: White House to Nominate Massad as CFTC Chairman; Financial transaction tax rises from the grave; NYSE Euronext takeover poses tough challenges for ICE boss
First Read LaSalle Street After Hours Event Honors Boy Scouts John Lothian It was not that long ago in my career that workmen would set up a huge circus tent on LaSalle Street in front of the Federal Reserve and Continental Bank Building in the summer, driving huge 2...
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Cboe Says It’s Seeking Approval to List Bitcoin ETF in U.S.; SPACs Are Hot Because They Are the ‘Poor Man’s Private Equity Funds’
Cboe Says It’s Seeking Approval to List Bitcoin ETF in U.S.; SPACs Are Hot Because They Are the ‘Poor Man’s Private Equity Funds’
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Bond selloff eases but risk gauges flash orange; Cboe Seeks Approval to List Trailblazer Bitcoin ETF in U.S.
Bond selloff eases but risk gauges flash orange; Cboe Seeks Approval to List Trailblazer Bitcoin ETF in U.S.
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