MarketsMuse blog update profiles how the increasing interest in bitcoins is leading some investors in opening bitcoin financial services firms. Many believe that this move can help reduce the volatility and increases favorability of bitcoins.  This update is courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's article, "Big Investor Involvement Could Boost Bitcoin", with an…Read More

MarketsMuse blog update profiles a proposal from FINRA which proposes pre-trade transparency for fixed income automatic trading systems operators. This update is courtesy of  Traders Magazines' article, "A Step Closer to a Fixed-Income NBBO" with an excerpt from the article below. A modest proposal made by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)…Read More

MarketsMuse.com FinTech update profiles Wall Street’s trading system technology push into the next frontier: Bitcoin Exchanges. Below is courtesy of March 24 column “Legacy Exchange Players Rush To Aid Bitcoin Exchanges.” Following news that Nasdaq will offer trading technology to Noble Markets, legacy exchanges and executives are helping to make…Read More

MarketsMuse.com merges Fixed Income and FinTech with continuing coverage of the corporate bond market’s effort to evolutionize via electronification with a focus on yet the latest innovator initiative courtesy of Goldman Sachs alumni Amar Kuchinad and his start-up“Electronofie.” Our hats are off in salute to the catchy company name and…Read More

They say you should always shoot for the moon and that is exactly what BATs exchange is doing. MarketMuse update profiles BATS exchange looks to hit it out of Nasdaq's and the New York Stock Exchange's parks. The ETF-only exchange out of Kansas City, BATS, is planning on becoming the number…Read More

MarketMuse blog update profiles Nasdaq recent agreement to power a new marketplace from bitcoin trading. Bitcoins are the largest decentralized digital currency in the market and has been taking the investment world by storm since its introduction in 2009 by its founder,  Satoshi Nakamoto. MarketMuse blog update is courtesy of Nasdaq's article, "Nasdaq…Read More

MarketMuse update is courtesy of BloombergBusiness's Anthony Effinger and Eric Balchunas's 15 March article, "Funds Run by Robots Now Account for $400 Billion" profiles self proclaimed money manager, Tom Dorsey's key to  a successful portfolio just takes pressing a button.  Few people have profited more from the so-called smart-beta craze than…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Bloomberg Business profiles investment firm, Point72 Asset Management, expands its jobs to hire more employees in order to collect and analyze data.  Steven Cohen’s investment firm is looking for an edge in public data. Point72 Asset Management, the successor to Cohen’s hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors,…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from Pension & Investments Feb 23 edition, with story reported by Sophie Baker …MM Editor Note: The notion of buyside-only electronic trading venues for institutional equities (i.e. block trading) is not a new one. Graybeards who have been around for more than 15 minutes will…Read More

MarketsMuse update courtesy of Feb 21 WSJ story by Bradley Hope One June morning in 2012, a college dropout whom securities traders call “The Russian” logged on to his computer and began trading Brent-crude futures on a London exchange from his skyscraper office in Chicago. Over six hours, Igor Oystacher…Read More

Same story, different day..’electronifying the corporate bond market’. . Folks have been looking for this Holy Grail for the past 20 years..That’s right..other than Bloomberg’s 1990’s system, a company named BondNet was the first to launch a web-based platform. That was an independent IDB platform created by some very innovative…Read More

MarketsMuse options market coverage of MIAX, the latest entrant to the continuously fragmented world of securities exchanges is courtesy of Traders Magazine Options industry market makers, Citadel Securities LLC, KCG Americas LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Optiver US LLC, Susquehanna Securities, Timber Hill LLC, and Wolverine Trading, LLC have…Read More

Marketsmuse.com continues coverage of corporate bond electronic trading initiatives with outtake courtesy of coverage by Traders Magazine and column authored by Wall Street & Technology's Ivy Schmerken. MM editor note: Since it was our chief honcho who coined the phrase "electronification of markets" 20 years ago, we're also the first…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of repurpose from Brokerdealer.com, originally from Traders Magazine, one of the sell-side’s  top publications. Quantitative Brokers and RiskVal have formed a partnership to create and deliver a fixed income trading platform, called RVQB. The new sellside bond trading platform "combines powerful real-time analytics with seamless access to QB algorithms for…Read More

While contemplating today’s news release profiling the proposed launch of the latest corporate bond electronic trading platform “OpenBondX,” MarketsMuse senior editors respectfully borrow Yogi Berra’s best line  “"It's like déjà vu all over again." But for those too young to remember that most famous Yankee, we’ll toss you a softball: “Here we…Read More

MarketsMuse.com update courtesy of extracts from today’s edition of Traders Magazine. Yet another coin is being tossed into the fountain of Bitcoin dreams and wishes. The latest aspirant and first to file a full-blown registration for a "Bitcoin Bourse"with the CFTC is “LedgerX”, a company led by former 6-pack broker-dealer…Read More

Greenwich Associates study reveals difficulty in executing corporate bond trades; Transparency and Liquidity are Lacking MarketsMuse update courtesy of extract from Jan 23 Wall Street Letter, followed by our own comments (thanks to our Exec Editor’s providing more than average knowledge of corporate bond trading and the assortment of electronic…Read More

MarketMuse update courtesy of Inside Bitcoins' Kyle Torpey.  Much of the bitcoin community is excited at the prospect of a bitcoin ETF due to the assumption that it could bring many new speculators into the market. After all, if everyone with access to assets traded on the NASDAQ can just as easily trade bitcoin…Read More