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Fed’s Dudley Warns on Dangerous ‘Speculative Mania’ Around Cryptocurrencies
First Read FCMs Big And Small Suffer Major Losses On Latest Black Monday Jim Kharouf – JLN On February 5, the historic trading day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1,175 points and the...
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Nearly Half of 2017’s Cryptocurrency ‘ICO’ Projects Have Already Died
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff A report from Deloitte showed that 9 out of 10 blockchain trials go nowhere. Only 8 percent of projects started still survive, with 92 percent of blockchain...
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Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Accused of Swindling $5 Billion of...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Today is the 10th anniversary of the Nasdaq OMX deal that transformed Nasdaq and set the foundation for its timely position as a leading purveyor of financial...
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Bitcoin-Futures Regulator Clears Employees to Trade Crypto Coins
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff It is with sadness I report the passing of Betty Bergstrom, mother of my wife, Cheryl Lothian and of my brother-in-law and JJLCO CIO, Jeff Bergstrom. She died...
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Stock exchanges cast wary eye at threat from big tech; Cryptocurrency Firms...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff From today’s Bloomberg piece This $1 Trillion Money Manager Just Joined the Crypto Frenzy, “shares in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which manufactures...
View ArticleBOE’s Carney Calls for Rules to End Cryptocurrency Anarchy
First Read Don’t Blink, The Markets Are Changing Right In Front of Your Eyes; Eighteen Years Later, Another Inflection Point By John Lothian – JLN Eighteen years after the start of this newsletter, the...
View ArticleRisks of Crypto Exchanges; Wall Street Loses in Senate’s Reg Reboot; Beware...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff See what our friend David Setters is doing protesting in the UK, in ITV’s piece Motor neurone disease patients protest in Westminster. Brave, focused and strong....
View ArticleU.S. considering ‘material changes’ to ‘Volcker Rule’; Stock Bulls in Trump...
First Read The Man Who Molded Chicago’s Merc; Leo Melamed, chairman emeritus of CME Group, helped make his company the world’s largest manager of financial exchanges. Now he’s focusing on the...
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First Read Bitcoin and Blockchain: A WILD Opportunity Sarah Rudolph – JLN Bitcoin is not at the dizzying high it was back in December, but interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain is still strong....
View ArticleHKEx May Have Reached Its Peak; Crypto Could Be Lifeline for CHX; Hundreds of...
First Read Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets Divisions of Enforcement and Trading and Markets SEC Online trading platforms have become a popular way...
View ArticleSpot Trading Closes; EU Fintech Regulatory Roadmap; EU probes UK derivatives...
First Read Renato Mariotti for Illinois Attorney General; A Former Prosecutor and Current JLN Reader Is The Best Choice For Illinois AG John Lothian – JLN Democratic Attorney General candidate Renato...
View ArticleKids Rock The Market: Magnetar’s Trading Challenge Brings Financial Education...
When you enter Chicago’s Navy Pier Grand Ballroom for the Magnetar Team Challenge, something feels right – about education, about learning, about our kids and our future. Inside the beautiful and...
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Lloyd Blankfein Prepares to Exit Goldman Sachs as Soon as Year’s End
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Last week the European Commission announced a “Fintech Action Plan” aimed at helping crowdfunding platforms, like initial coin offerings, in the EU.~JK On Friday,...
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Central Banks Urged to Study Digital Currency Risks and Rewards
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Boca Bits: Today we announced in a Special Report to the readers of this newsletter that John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. has begun work on a microwiki site...
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Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Stephen Hawking the physicist who reshaped cosmology has died (via Bloomberg) at the age of 76. HERE is the WSJ’s story too.~JJL Boca Bits: The Singapore Exchange...
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What’s the Biggest Trade on the New York Stock Exchange? The Last One
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo opened his speech to the FIA International Conference in Boca Raton by honoring Leo Melamed and his contributions to the industry...
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CME Considers Bidding for Michael Spencer’s NEX Group
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Wednesday night I was about to head home when I ran into a friend outside the Bar Luna at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. He told me about a rumor the CME was...
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Bear Stearns Meltdown Wreck; Decision time for Michael Spencer; Deductive...
First Read Potential CME-NEX Deal Is Full of History, Dilemma, Risk and Reward John J. Lothian – JLN For many years, the Chicago Board of Trade had cash treasuries envy, wanting to add the trading of...
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SEC Urges End to CAT standoff; Deutsche Boerse plans FX expansion; HKEX...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Our Page Of The Day yesterday was industry legend Robert J. O’Brien, who turned 100 years old yesterday. His contributions to the industry and interviews with Mr....
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Cryptocoin Market Met Its Match?; Blackstone, Thomson Reuters Said to Weigh...
First Read More Questions Than Answers For A Potential CryptoMarketsWiki ICO John Lothian – JLN In the announcement of CryptoMarketsWiki last week, I mentioned that the project would explore the...
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