Weekend Update: June 1-5, 2020
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THE SPREAD: DERIVATIVES ON-DEMAND
This week on The Spread, FIA announces IDX 2020, the Small Exchange launches, OCC celebrates increased volumes for cleared derivatives trades, and more.
VENDORS, THE VIRUS AND VOLATILITY
How are software vendors managing their businesses in the current pandemic environment? A group of some of the top vendors answered that question Wednesday in a webinar called “Vendors vs. Virus” hosted by Imagineer Technology Group.
EXCHANGE LEADERS TAKE STOCK OF COVID-19 VOLATILITY
Executives from the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets, in a webinar Tuesday titled, “Equity Markets and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” mostly breathed a collective sigh of relief at surviving the storm.

BURTON-TAYLOR FINDS U.S. FUTURES DOMINATE
Consultants Burton-Taylor report today that Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group remain the two largest exchange operators in the world, measured by total revenues.

BRYAN HARKINS: CBOE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT ON CANADIAN M&A AND THE PROS AND CONS OF FLOOR TRADING
Cboe executive VP and head of markets talks about the MATCHNow acquisition, how price formation can differ in an all-electronic exchange, competition for retail and the challenge of working from home in the shadow of a pandemic.

CBD SUFFERS FROM HANGOVER AS PLANTING SEASON BEGINS
The prices for unprocessed hemp for CBD (CBD biomass) and for distilled CBD have consolidated at low levels, according to May data reported by the PanXchange, holding at about 20 percent of last year’s peak prices posted shortly before the harvest started.