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Banks Are Getting Squeezed by the Fight Against Dirty Money
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Here is the agenda for today’s CFTC Technology Advisory Committee meeting in Washington, DC. The meeting should be live streamed if you are interested in watching...
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Exchanges on offensive in market data cost dispute; Bitcoin turns boring
First Read POV: Are Publicly Traded Exchanges Sticking It To You? Jim Kharouf – JLN There is a recurring criticism of publicly traded exchanges – that they are not serving the needs of their customers,...
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BoE warns £41tn of derivatives at risk after Brexit; European banks worry...
First Read Women In Listed Derivatives Tackle Sexual Harassment at Work Sarah Rudolph – John Lothian News Women In Listed Derivatives, aka WILD, held a workshop on “Sexual Harassment at Work in the...
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EU urged to tackle Brexit derivatives uncertainty; Adena Friedman comments on...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The LaSalle Street Trading Tech Awards, in support of Pathway to Adventure Council of Boy Scouts of America, will be on November 15 in the Chicago Board of Trade...
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Powder Keg Threatens Corporate Bond Market; New Crypto Consortium Seeks to...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff John J. Conheeney has passed away. See the NFA statement below.~JJL CQG is hosting their 7th annual charity softball game next week before the start of FIA EXPO in...
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Texas Finance Professor Sifts Data for Signs of Rigged Markets; SEC’s New...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff A total of 37,989,245 options contracts traded yesterday and cleared at the OCC. That makes it the fourth best day by volume in OCC’s history.~JJL Bob Zagotta is...
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Saudi Arabia’s Economic Dreams Falter
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Welcome to FIA EXPO Week in Chicago. Over 120 companies are represented in the FIA EXPO hall and people come from all over the world. If you missed our FIA EXPO...
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Saudi Arabia Breaks 45-Year Taboo With Veiled Threat to Use Oil as a Weapon
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Welcome to all our readers and friends who have descended upon Chicago for the FIA’s EXPO. We look forward to saying hello and catching up.~JJL CME Group is...
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SEC Rules NYSE, Nasdaq Didn’t Justify Market Data Fee Increases
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff John Lothian News is working on a documentary video series on the history of financial futures. We are looking for people with stories to tell about the...
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US threatens to bar EU banks from exchanges
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff FIA Expo, which began Wednesday, is an international conference, with participants coming to Chicago from all over the world, so of course Brexit and...
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U.S. Banks Make Hay of European Trading Rules
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The winner of the Innovator of the Year Award at FIA Expo 2018 was FreightWaves, the company that is creating the first Trucking Freight Futures contracts to help...
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ICE Announces Houston Crude Oil Futures Launch; Quantum computing is funds’...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff EXPO week has come and gone. It was largely successful from JLN’s perspective. We conducted over 15 interviews in the booth we shared with Cinnober. Thank you to...
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Japan’s dying shareholders; The high price of short attention spans
First Read World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Manufacturer Earned $742.7 Million in Six Months Thom Thompson – JLN This article is a follow-up to Thompson’s earlier article, “Introducing Bitmain,” which...
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Exposing a $200B Russian Money-Laundering Scandal; JPX to start merger talks...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The mother of all of ALTSO’s Rocktoberfest events is the Hedge Fund Rocktoberfest in New York. Now in its 15th year, the New York event is at the Hard Rock Cafe...
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Blockchain poised to enter European settlement system; Anybody Want Bitcoin...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Yesterday was the 89th anniversary of Black Thursday.~SD It used to be “There’s an app for that.” Now, it’s “There’s an ETF for that.” The most recent entry into...
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Exchanges warn SEC against muscling in on market data cost debate
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The theme of the day is where former exchange chairmen are living. The good news is Leo Melamed and his wife Betty have sold their home on the North Shore of...
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Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff It is a somber morning in October, given the terrible shooting news in Pittsburgh, PA over the weekend.~JJL In the Best Execution 10th Anniversary edition, there...
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Virtual assets and financial crime now go hand in hand
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff NIBA is offering FREE membership in continuation of its 25th anniversary celebration; however, this offer will be discontinued after November 30th. On Wednesday, I...
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U.S. Market-Manipulation Cases Reach Record
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Happy Halloween from the JLN Staff.~JJL ICE’s third quarter earnings showed net revenues of $1.2 billion, with data and listings generating $642 million of it.~JK...
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Nasdaq Futures Exchange confirms CEO departure
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Welcome to Movember. Time to stop shaving in the name of men’s health.~JJL CME Group in October raised more than $37,000 from their employees and broader community...
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