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Frankfurt Winning Battle for Brexit Bankers; End of 47-Year Japan Rice...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Spencer Doar’s weekly JLN Options video feature, The Spread, continues to get better. This last week’s was a beut.~JJL Holy smokes. Get this: “The Legends Room,...
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Chicago firms gear up for MiFID II; EU exchanges clash with customers over...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff This is the second to last edition of the John Lothian Newsletter for 2017. Tomorrow we will publish JLN, but not JLN Options or JLN Asia Pacific News.~JJL Eurex‘s...
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Chinese Investor Buys Stake in Delaware Blockchain Exchange; Hong Kong and...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff OCC’s David Prosperi likes to quote his former boss, Ronald Reagan, on Twitter with quotes from the Reagan Foundation Twitter account. Today’s quote is a good one:...
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First Read Hits & Takes By John J. Lothian Welcome to 2018! Today we begin work on invoicing readers of this newsletter and their firms for the 2018 subscriptions. If you would like to receive a...
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Mifid II launch overshadowed by futures delay; Ex-UBS Trader Says Bank...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff OCC announced that 2017 volume reached the third highest total cleared contract volume ever.~JJL Jessica Darmoni will be moderating a panel at #STAC’s MidWinter...
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Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers; MiFID II’s...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff What’s hot: palladium. What’s not: lead. What’s been kind of interesting: lumber. ~SD The music streaming service Spotify has decided to go with a direct...
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Bitcoin-Futures Regulator Defends Oversight as Critics See Risks; DBOT ATS...
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The newest edition of CME’s Off the Chart’s Podcast covers Bitcoin: Supply Growth, Mining Difficulty and Prospects in 2018. In a nutshell, it’s getting harder...
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Quant funds set to pass $1tn mark; Hong Kong Exchange Eyes New Trading Rules;...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Brazil’s exchange, B3 (formerly BM&FBovespa) announced its main stock market performance index – Ibovespa – hit a record high Friday, ending the day at 79.071...
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Two futures exchanges call for post-Brexit Mifid rethink; CME Group and JPX...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Today’s top story, Two big futures exchanges call for post-Brexit rethink on Mifid, reiterates what Jeff Sprecher said in April 2017 as covered by Business...
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Regulator halts European equity trading shake-up; ‘Fiduciary Rule’ Poised for...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff LinkedIn is reporting the 15-year anniversary of John Lothian being at John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. Time flies when you publish a newsletter.~JJL CME...
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London loses oil futures listings as Mifid bites; Wall Street Is Claiming...
First Read A Grateful Scouter with a Big Silvery Beaver-Like Smile By John Lothian I was informed late last night that I am to be recognized for my contributions to Scouting with a Silver Beaver Award...
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This Is Where People Are Buying Bitcoin All Over the World; Who Wants to Be...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s STAC panel on cryptocurrency, moderated by Bcause‘s Sean Ristau, looked to be the best attended. The lack of regulatory certainty is...
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Kraken Bitcoin Exchange Reopens After Two Anxious Days; Scores injured as...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Welcome to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States, a holiday honoring the life of the slain civil rights leader, minister and peace-maker. ~JJL The most...
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Filings reveal DRW’s climb into top rank of trading firms; BlackRock’s...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The CBOE is holding its press lunch today in Chicago. It is the Chicago financial press’s opportunity to ask tough questions to the CBOE management team. My...
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Hudson River to acquire Sun Trading as HFT continues to contract; What Could...
First Read You Can’t Rain On Our Parade: Cboe’s Big 2017 Includes Bitcoin Futures. Can It Overcome Regulatory, Margin and Volatility Headwinds? Jim Kharouf – John Lothian News To hear Cboe Global...
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Cboe approval shakes up stock market’s closing auction; Euronext Acquires...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff OCC total cleared volume topped 30.3 million contracts on January 16, the first time since January 2016. Total cleared futures volume at OCC was the fourth highest...
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SEC Pours Cold Water on Prospect of Bitcoin ETFs; Rolling back regulations...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff I will be in Washington, DC on Monday and Tuesday for the Technology Advisory Committee meeting on Tuesday at the CFTC. ~JJL IMC was in the builtinchicago list of...
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No-Deal Brexit Could Cause Finance Chaos; ADM makes takeover approach to...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff In case you missed it, the government shut down. The Senate has a noontime vote scheduled to reopen with three more weeks of funding. If you’re curious which...
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Man vs. Machine in Battle for a Better Stock Index; Strategy of ADM approach...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff SGX reported that the Emerging Markets Asia Index jumped 40 percent in 2017, surpassing the 20 percent rise in the MSCI World Index. SGX’s MSCI Taiwan Index rose...
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Chinese-backed bid for Chicago Stock Exchange hits a snag; Nasdaq seeks boost...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The FIA’s volume release today revealed global futures and options volumes in 2017 were flat, with 25.1 billion contracts traded. Options volumes were up 11...
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