Videos
TNS Global Expansion Now Includes Madrid and Johannesburg; Jeff Mezger Interviewed at FIA EXPO 2022
Transaction Network Services, also known as TNS, is a global infrastructure provider that has spent the past five years building out its managed hosting, low latency infrastructure and expanding it globally, according to Jeff Mezger, TNS’s vice president of product management. Mezger spoke to John Lothian News at the November FIA EXPO in Chicago.
Catching up with Baton Systems at FIA EXPO 2022; President Jerome Kemp Talks Customer Growth
JLN interviewed Jerome Kemp, president of Baton Systems, at FIA EXPO 2022. JLN asked Kemp what Baton has been up to since we interviewed him last March at the FIA Boca conference.
Abaxx’s Joe Raia Talks FCM Model Benefits, FTX and the Need for Physically Delivered Contracts
Before the FTX implosion, FTX had created quite a regulatory stir in the futures industry with a proposal before the CFTC for a clearing model that eliminated the need for FCMs. Abaxx Exchange Chief Commercial Officer Joe Raia has been outspoken in his support for FCMs. John Lothian News caught up with Raia at the recent FIA EXPO 2022 in Chicago to discuss his views.
Catching Up with Trading Technologies CEO Keith Todd at FIA EXPO 2022
John Lothian News caught up with Trading Technologies CEO Keith Todd at the recent FIA EXPO 2022 in Chicago about recent announcements from TT and updates on its progress under its new owners.
Nick Baker’s Big, Interesting and Weird Stories at CoinDesk Turn Consequential With FTX Scoops and CoinDesk’s Comprehensive Coverage
NIck Baker is the deputy editor-in-chief of CoinDesk, which has about 100 people in its content operation, of which about 50 are journalists. Most work remotely from home, though CoinDesk does have a New York office. Like cryptocurrency, CoinDesk is decentralized, Baker said.
Nick Baker’s Journalistic Bloodlines Took Him From Dow Jones to Bloomberg to CoinDesk
Nick Baker had journalism in his blood from the start. His grandfather was a journalist and an influential person in his life. When his grandfather died during Baker’s high school years, he made the split-second decision to follow a career path to journalism.
Cboe Digital, the rebranded ErisX, Leads with a Familiar Model
John Palmer is the head of Cboe Digital, the rebranded ErisX. JLN caught up with Palmer at the recent FIA EXPO 2022 in Chicago to ask him about Cboe Digital and the general state of the crypto markets and industry, which were rocked by the implosion of FTX and related companies.
ALL OPTIONS CEO ALLARD JAKOBS TALKS ABOUT RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL TRADING FIRM, WHAT HE LOOKS FOR FROM NEW TRADERS, AND MORE IN THIS FULL INTERVIEW WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
In this Options Discovery interview, Allard Jakobs, the CEO of All Options, sits down with JLN’s Alex Teng.
OPTIONS DISCOVERY EPISODE 10: EXPLORING DIFFERENT TYPES OF FIRMS IN THE OPTIONS INDUSTRY; ALLARD JAKOBS TALKS ABOUT THE OPTIONS INDUSTRY AND WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD AN OPTIONS FIRM
In this episode of Options Discovery, Alex introduces the different types of firms that make up the options industry.
FIA 50 Years of Financial Futures Celebration
2022 is the 50th anniversary of financial futures and the birth of the modern exchange traded derivatives markets. In this video, John Lothian News discusses the birth of the financial futures industry in 1972 and how it has evolved into a market that traded $53.9 billion contracts this year.
Doc Sandor – 50 Years of Financial Futures
JLN interviewed American Financial Exchange CEO and Chairman Richard Sandor for the History of Financial Futures video series.
John Vaile Saw the Potential of Financial Futures and Helped Make Them A Success
John Vaile had an aunt who invested in the stock market who bought Vaile some stock when he was 10 years old and that experience caused him to want to be a stockbroker. As a result, Vaile became a student of the market.
He went to a couple of different colleges in Illinois, then ended up in a program at Wharton for students who did not graduate from college.
Vaile was working for Morgan Stanley and living in Lake Geneva, WI, surrounded by friends in the futures markets and he wanted to get involved with what was happening. He said he badgered Morgan Stanley to get involved. They gave him permission, but he said he could see how long it would take for them to truly become involved and he did not have the patience for that.
Justin Schack Talks Topics from the recent Rosenblatt Securities Global Leader Conference
Rosenblatt Securities held its Global Exchange Leader Conference this past September, and John Lothian News spoke with Justin Schack, managing director and partner at Rosenblatt Securities, about who attended, what the big topics were and what was different about the conference in 2022.
Environmental Markets Association Annual Meeting a Success, Organization Poised for Growth to Meet Challenges Ahead
The Environmental Markets Association recently held its annual meeting in person for the first time in three years, and JLN interviewed the EMA chairman, Jack Velasquez, about the meeting, the EMA and its plans.
JLN Looks at Vantage, the no-code data visualization tool for U.S. and European equity markets from BMLL
Dr. Elliot Banks, the chief product officer of level 3 data and analytics provider BMLL, spoke to John Lothian News recently about the firm’s new BMLL Vantage product.
The High Price of Bad Business: Corporate America’s Biggest Settlements
First Read Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff The OCC says be wary of crypto - the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that is, not The Options Clearing Corporation. The SEC says public companies should disclose their crypto exposure, assuming they...
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ALL OPTIONS CEO ALLARD JAKOBS TALKS ABOUT RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL TRADING FIRM, WHAT HE LOOKS FOR FROM NEW TRADERS, AND MORE IN THIS FULL INTERVIEW WITH JLN’S ALEX TENG
In this Options Discovery interview, Allard Jakobs, the CEO of All Options, sits down with JLN’s Alex Teng.
Wall Street’s Booming ETF Market Is On Brink of Record Launches
Observations & Insight Trabue Bland, SVP, Futures Markets at ICE, has written a paper titled "Why financial participants matter to the commodity markets." The chapter topics of the paper include "How derivatives work" and "Participation in the derivatives...
