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MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity 2019 Day One Held Tuesday in Chicago
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain were not the only themes at the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity event at the headquarters of Trading Technologies on Tuesday, but they kept cropping up. The first presenter, Colleen Sullivan, is...
Letter to Heath Tarbert, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Mr. Heath TarbertChairman, Commodity Futures Trading CommissionThree Lafayette Centre1155 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20581 July 12, 2019 Dear Chairman Tarbert: Congratulations on becoming chairman of the CFTC. Welcome to the futures...
How a Chicago Suburb Became a Center of ETFs; Piper Jaffray Nearing Deal to Buy Sandler O’Neill
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffRobert Jeffrey Lothian is an Eagle Scout. He passed his Eagle Board of Review last night to complete his journey from a Tiger Cub Scout all the way to...
The Broker Who Saved America
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffOur friends at WILD decided to start a new tradition. They sent out an email on July 3 with the words of the Declaration of Independence. What a great...
The Mystery Millionaire Who Haunted London’s Insider-Trading Trial
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffCME Group's Julie Holzrichter and Julie Winkler, OCC's Amy Shelly and CMT Digital Holdings's Founder and CEO Colleen Sullivan are among the women listed...
A Look Back at Manipulation in the Metals Markets
Spoofing is Dunm (sic) and Just Plain Stupid If Bart Chilton were alive today, he would be smiling. The CFTC nailed another bank for metals futures market manipulation. According to the CFTC website, “The Commodity Futures Trading...
Tech-X Lights Up Former Chicago Trading Floor with Awards to Sandner and Dawani
Illinois Tech's (IIT) biennial Tech-X awards dinner last night honored a well-known industry pioneer and icon, former CME Chairman Jack Sandner, and a relative newcomer, Hazem Dawani, chief executive officer of Predata, a predictive...
WILD Celebrates 10 Years of Networking, Education, and More
Women In Listed Derivatives (WILD) is celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2019. In this video, WILD President Cathey Curley and Vice President Katie Cleland spoke with JLN about how WILD started as a networking group and how it has...
10 EU Countries OK Financial Transaction Tax Revenue-Sharing Plan
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffSidley partner David R. Sawyier passed away on June 10 after a battle with cancer. He founded the firm's private investment funds practice in their...
Digital Asset Holdings’ pivot raises doubt over blockchain future
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffThe young man from Bradley University I mentioned in JLN earlier this week who was looking for a summer internship has been hired by Barchart.com. Thank...
Senate Confirms Heath Tarbert as CFTC Chairman
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadPhishing for trouble (and bitcoin)Matt Raebel - John Lothian NewsIf you get an email from someone who quotes poetry at you before demanding bitcoin under the threat of physical...
Bank of England calls ‘last orders’ on Libor benchmark
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesJLN StaffThe JLN Staff is hard at work in London at IDX. Here is Spencer Doar conducting an interview outside The Brewery with DTCC's Mark WetjenExchange Analytics...
Futures exchanges eye shift to ‘Flash Boys’ speed bumps
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadHits & TakesBy JLN StaffJohn McPartland resigned from his position as senior policy advisor in the Financial Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He has...
FCA bans ex-broker Terry Farr over Libor-rigging scandal
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Last week, the German Federal Ministry of Finance published its draft amendments to the national money laundering law to conform German laws to the most...
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G7 warns on ‘serious risks’ posed by Libra and other digital coins
Get a FREE 90 day trial of John Lothian Newsletter First ReadMarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity 2019 Concludes in Chicago WednesdaySarah Rudolph - John Lothian NewsJLN's two-day MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity concluded on...
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