Fintech startup instant message platform Symphony is hearing the sound of trumpets coming from NY Regulators and Bloomberg-challenger backed by consortium of banks now being  questioned about deletion and encryption process. MarketsMuse curators might be a little slow this week in view of following delayed post regarding the roll-out of…Read More

MarketsMuse Fixed Income Dept. is keeping tabs on industry updates and re-distributes the following news release courtesy of Mischler Financial Group, the financial industry's leading minority brokerdealer owned and operated by service-disabled veterans. Stamford, CT—July 22, 2015—Mischler Financial Group, Inc., the financial industry’s oldest and largest minority investment bank and…Read More

On the heels of the recent NYSE ‘outage’, which actually had little impact on overall equities trading volume, but did lead to volume spikes away from the NYSE and at competing exchanges across the fragmented marketplace, the volume also increased with regard to spirited discussions about market structure. And, whenever…Read More

Disruptive Unbundlers, Securities Industry Untouchables, Fintech Aficionados and Innovative Altruists seek to level the investment research playing field, inspiring a bull market for independent research distribution channels, start-ups and disruptive schemes. Investment research and expert ideas, whether within the context of equities analysis or global macro perspective, has long been…Read More

How big are ETFs these days? Even Kevin O'Leary, aka "Mr. Wonderful" of ABC's "Shark Tank" is getting into the game. On Tuesday, O'Leary was on the NYSE floor to launch the O'Shares FTSE US Quality Dividend ETF, (ARCA NYSE:OUSA): a basket of high-dividend stocks. But he's not doing this just…Read More

Now that InteractiveBrokers is turning up the heat and joining the "unbundling movement" by offering independent research via its world-class trading platform, MarketsMuse editors spotlighted the following comments courtesy of global macro sage Neil Azous, Founder/Managing Member of Rareview Macro LLC from today's IB feed..If you're a hedge fund-type, you…Read More

MarketsMuse special update-courtesy of MarketsMedia reporting with a refreshing reprieve from all-things Greece ...While Silicon Valley salivates over the next social media-powered “Unicorn”, the global financial industry is fixated on FinTech. Just like the litany of aspiring app companies accelerating the ‘next great idea’ produced by West Coast Wonks, as…Read More

Hull Tactical Asset Allocation, LLC (“HTAA”), announces the launch of the Hull Tactical US ETF (“HTUS”), an actively managed exchange traded fund designed by industry veteran Blair Hull. The ETF is designed to deliver hedge fund-type management and trading tactics to a broad investor audience. Working in partnership with Exchange…Read More

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which is looking to issue exchange-traded funds this year, hired BlackRock Inc. veteran Tony Kelly as head of product development for that unit. Kelly, who spent 15 years working in the iShares ETF business at Barclays Plc and BlackRock, will join Goldman Sachs as a managing…Read More

Tech Talk: Bitcoin's Distributed Ledgers: A FinTech Innovation.. MarketsMuse Trading Technology/FinTech department profiles Wall Street’s rapid embracement of the tools that power Bitcoin with a look at Symbiont, a company that aspires to disrupt the capital markets process. Distributed ledgers, the technology behind the Bitcoin blockchain, can be used to…Read More

BrokerDealer Gives Back and Pays It Forward; Mischler Financial’s "Memorial Day Month" Pledge Yields $20k for Semper Fi Fund. MarketsMuse is honored to be the first financial industry news outlet to report an inspiring story that profiles thought-leadership on the part of boutique brokerdealer, Mischler Financial Group and their financial…Read More

In advance of the June 17 ETF.com Global Macro Conference in NYC, MarketsMuse.com is pleased to provide our readers with a teaser of what is expected to be one of this summer's best programs for investment managers, RIAs and Family Office practitioners who embrace the underlying approach and value proposition…Read More

Messing With Data aka When “Art” Smashes into “Science” in Wall Street’s Version of the Hadron Collider MarketsMuse Fixed Income update comes consequent to the Fed's June 5 release of Employment Data, and below is courtesy of extracted comments delivered to institutional clients of Mischler Financial Group under the banner…Read More

MarketsMuse ETF department extends our congrats to exchange-traded fund guru Matt Hougan in connection with announcement this week that Matt has been elevated to the role of CEO of industry platform ETF.com. ETF.com, the world’s leading authority on ETFs, named Matt Hougan, a longtime veteran in the world of exchange-traded…Read More

The barrier to entry for issuers of ETFs keeps getting lower. What used to cost anywhere between $1mil-$5mil and many months of filing paper work to create and finally launch a new ETF, now, for just only $100k (before marketing/advertising costs), you too can launch an exchange-traded fund in under…Read More

MarketsMuse update is courtesy of a truly inspiring initiative on the part of Mischler Financial Group, the broker-dealer industry's oldest firm owned and operated by Wall Street vets who are also Service-Disabled Veterans. Mischler Financial Memorial Day Month Pledge: May Profits to Semper Fi Fund For Immediate Release Newport Beach,…Read More

The US Government Bond Market is set to explode...with more e-trading systems.. MarketsMuse Tech Talk continues its curating of fintech stories from the world of fixed income and today's update is courtesy of WSJ's Katy Burne, who does a superb job (as always) in summarizing the latest assortment of US…Read More

MarketsMuse Strike Price update profiles a “return from the past and into the future” look at what many veteran (and former) option mart floor traders had all but given up for lost thanks to the electronification and bifurcation of institutional options trading. We’re talking about those legacy, open-outcry trading pits,…Read More