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First Read How Middle-Class America Got Fleeced By Noah Smith - Bloomberg If you're a middle-class American baby boomer or Gen Xer, you might have spent much of the past decade wondering what went wrong. If you're a boomer, there's a good chance you're still working...
John Lothian Newsletter: CFTC Can’t Give Whistleblower Money Away; Fining Bankers, Not Shareholders, for Banks’ Misconduct; Bridgewater Heir Apparent in Talks to Give Up Co-CEO Role
First Read Immigrant Killed in Manhattan Crane Collapse Recalled as Decent and Humble By LIAM STACK - WSJ The life of David Wichs, the 38-year-old trading firm employee who was killed Friday morning when an enormous construction crane crashed onto a street in Lower...
Haim Bodek, Decimus Capital Markets – A Flash Course on Market Structure
"In the market there are edges that are permissible, and edges that are impermissible. It is the impermissible ones that you should care about. If it doesn't smell right, leave."The 2014 publication of Michael Lewis' Flash Boys ignited a firestorm of accusations and...
John Lothian Newsletter: Goldman’s Self-Defeating Case Against a Programmer; Bond platforms look to bury archaic phone trading; LSE Enters Contest to Build European Dark Pool Called Plato
First Read Brazilian Bits Jim Kharouf - JLN The World Federation of Exchanges/IOMA Derivatives and Clearing Conference got underway in São Paulo, Brazil on Monday. Market regulation and clearing issues ruled the day's panels. Here are a few bits from this beautiful,...
John Lothian Newsletter: China May Allow Foreigners to Invest in Futures; Singapore's Stock Exchange Looks to Make Trading More Attractive for Individuals; Pimco’s Seksaria Fired After CME Fine Tied to Trading
First Read NFA's Chairman and Executive Committee respond to recent allegations of improprieties regarding the 2014 public director nominations National Futures Association Member Notice Dear Member of NFA, In January of each year, NFA's Executive Committee makes...
Lisa Noller – Foley & Lardner LLP
Lisa Noller, litigation partner in Government Enforcement, Compliance and White Collar Crime at Foley & Lardner LLP in Chicago, spoke with John Lothian News (JLN) web content editor Nicole V. Rohr about the passing of final SEC whistleblower rules. Among other...
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First Read $9,041/$300,000 (3%) How we think and what we think about Peak6 is about to change By John J. Lothian Peak6 was founded as a proprietary trading firm in Chicago by Matthew N. Hulsizer and Jennifer Just. We might think of Peak6 as the firm with the...
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If Trump’s Election Prospects Were an Option, It Would Be Out-of-the-Money; Bitcoin’s market run-up sends options to all-time high for open interest
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