Nasdaq to Provide Clearing Technology to SIX for Clearing Overhaul
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The JLN team is home after a successful day two of MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity in New York at Nasdaq yesterday. We had 12 speakers who knocked it...
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First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Happy Friday the 13th! Yesterday I learned I will be having hip replacement surgery. Using the logic of the sooner the better, I have decided to have the surgery...
View ArticleGoldman’s Next Step For Post-Blankfein Era; Buy-side voluntary clearing
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Since I will not be at the final day of MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity on August 2, the JLN team will take turns introducing the speakers that day....
View ArticleTrump’s Defense of Putin Too Much for Some Republicans; U.K.’s May in Brexit...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The word of the day in the United States is: Treason.~JJL On Saturday, WGN Television held a Trading Tech 300 session with Demetrius Ivory teaching the weather...
View ArticleChina/HKEX battle heats up; ETFs Unlikely to Cause Widespread Mkt Disruption
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff The JLN Team was saddened to learn of the passing of FIA employee Bernadette Connolly, who passed away after a long illness. Bernie was loved and very respected,...
View ArticleSEC votes to improve oversight of dark pools; Powell’s Crypto Comments
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff ICE‘s Data and Listings segment generated revenues of $2.5 billion in 2017 and accounted for 54 percent of its consolidated revenue of $4.6 billion in 2017,...
View ArticleTexas Heat Record; Wall St. Unprepared for Libor’s Absence; Trump’s Trade Tweets
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Are your interns signed up for MarketsWiki Education in Chicago on July 30, 31 and August 2? This don’t miss series still has some room for more. Sign up at...
View ArticleChicago’s CME Strains to Reflect Global Grain Trade
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity in Chicago is just a week away. There is still room to sign up students and interns for the series. For that matter,...
View ArticleGoogle Expands Blockchain Push With Digital Asset Tie-Up
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff I am taking a day trip to Camp Freeland Leslie, the Scout camp where my Boy Scout Troop, Exploring Club and Venturing Crew is spending the week. Every year...
View ArticleBloomberg snatches trade data partner from rival Reuters
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Today we have the first of the videos from the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in New York earlier in July. The first video up is Jaclyn...
View ArticleHow Traders Have Changed Since the Massive Selloff Earlier This Year
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff On Monday, MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity in Chicago begins with the first session at 3 PM at the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech....
View ArticleUp to Two-Thirds of Bitcoin Transactions Have No Economic Value
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff One takeaway from the CME’s second quarter earnings report yesterday: Average daily volume at the exchange through the first half of the year was 20.2 million....
View ArticleThe Markets Will Stop a Trade War; Nasdaq’s Crypto Policing Meeting; Forest...
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff We have three changes for the upcoming MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in Chicago. Renato Mariotti was called to Atlanta by CNN on Monday, so he...
View ArticleNYSE Cuts Jobs at CHX; Trump Lost Investors’ Confidence; Alleged NYSE Scheme
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Correction from JLN yesterday. Renato Mariotti will be speaking at MarketsWiki Education on Thursday, not Monday as scheduled. Bill Weldon was moved to Monday and...
View Article‘Tyrannical Coup’ at Quantlab; Northern Trust Looks at Crypto Custody Business
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff Thank you to the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Tech for hosting the first two sessions of the MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity series in Chicago...
View ArticleRegulators Probe OCC; ICE to Create ETF Primary Market Platform
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff John Lothian is out today, having surgery on his hip. The JLN team is picking up the newsletter for at least one day. Get well soon John.~JLN Today is the last day...
View ArticleICE Announces Digital Assets Platform; Brokers Face Crypto Scrutiny
First Read Hits & Takes JLN Staff John had his hip surgery yesterday and all went well. Thanks to all who sent well wishes. He should be back home in a few days. The American Financial Exchange...
View ArticleThe NYSE’s Owner Wants to Bring Bitcoin to Your 401(k)
First Read The Mothering Type: JPX’s index suite shows strong July numbers and new-contract growth By Jim Kharouf It’s been a solid year for exchanges, with some welcome volatility and enough economic...
View ArticleRegulators club together to form global ‘fintech sandbox’
First Read Joe O’Neill, New York Commodity Exchange(s) Executive, Passes Away By John Lothian Longtime New York commodity exchange executive Joe O’Neill passed away on August 4, 2018 at the age of 74....
View ArticleMosaic Data touts analytics platform that could cut trading losses
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff The opinion piece in the Pekin Daily Times takes aim at the hedge fund and alternative investment space, including research saying that “of the 33 states for...
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