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A Plethora of New Reference Rates
Ameribor is not the only new short-term interest rate vying for market attention. As part of the post-financial crisis reforms, global regulators are overseeing the abandonment of LIBOR, the London Interbank Offer Rate, in favor of new...
John Lothian News Special Report: The Launch of Ameribor
On Friday, August 16, The American Financial Exchange (AFX), headed by Dr. Richard Sandor, will launch the first futures on the Ameribor, an index designed to be a replacement for Libor, which had become badly tarnished by a manipulation...
The Power of the People
Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016 and the platform now has more than 500 million users. Need any more proof of the power of networks? In this video, ChartIQ Chief Revenue Officer Julie Armstrong provides her...
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...
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 the...
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 in...
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 Commission...
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 analytics...
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 evolved...
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 Chicago...
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 you...
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...
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Math Whiz Trades Without Humans to Build a $700 Million Fortune
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Dan Stern is the subject of today's MarketsWiki Education Open Outcry Traders History Project video. Stern is part of a prominent Chicago Board of Trade family of traders and lovers of soccer.~JJL John...
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Investor pockets $13 million on one trade by betting big against the S&P 500 right before Monday’s steep drop
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