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Fintech Startup Alpha Trading Labs Brings HFT to Retail…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Alpha Trading Labs, the Chicagoland fintech “crowd sourcing startup” has thrown the gauntlet down and threatens to democratize the sacred world of HFT wonks, those hoodie-wearing quant jocks who occupy $1mil per yr cubicles at high-frequency trading firms like Virtu, Citadel, Jones Trading, Hudson Trading, and Two Sigma (among others). You know who mean, those […] Read More

24 March, 2018
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SEC Subpoena Smackdown: ICO Issuers & Enablers Get Pinned
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
An SEC subpoena is not exactly what any Issuer (or stock promoter) puts on the top of their birthday wish list. And, for crypto cool kids who are either already a member of the ICO Issuers Club, or who have applied to become part of the dapper dapp crowd that is floating digital coin or […] Read More

2 March, 2018
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Memo to Asset Managers : Get on the Blockchain…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Asset Management Industry is Notorious for Waste: Its About Blockchain, You Blockheads. NOT Bitcoin, Blockchain Dapps Can Mitigate Risk of “Death By Drop Copy” Any asset manager in today’s world who has more than $500 of AUM does not need to be fluent in the language of fintech, blocktech or be able to explain ‘the […] Read More

27 February, 2018
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MiFID II Fuels Massive EU Move Towards ETFs, ETF…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
MiFID II Implementation Triggers Flow of $50b into Europe ETF Market In First Weeks of 2018; ETF Sec Lending and  ETF Options Growth Expected to Drive EU Financial Markets. “What we’ve seen for the first time in European ETF trading is really a concerted interest in trading ETF options in Europe. A load of clients […] Read More

26 February, 2018
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BlockTech Bid Repeats via Bloomberg: Its About Blockchain, NOT…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse fintech and blocktech curators extend our thanks to Prospectus.com LLC for the following contribution)-Bloomberg Intelligence reporter Jonathan Tyce wins the Valentine’s Day Award for Very Good Framing courtesy of his latest piece “Blockchain is Coming Everywhere, Ready or Not” –one of a series of articles by Tyce that puts the blockchain value proposition into […] Read More

14 February, 2018
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MiFID II : Sell-Side Research Analysts Unwanted Thanks to…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse blog post image courtesy of Institutional Investor)–Thanks to MiFID II, Sell-Side Research Analysts are not only unwanted, they will become increasingly underemployed in terms of compensation, or simply unemployed. This increasing view is bleak for investment bank research wonks, but provides for a career re-purposing on the part of experienced research analysts. At least […] Read More

12 February, 2018
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ETF Broker Rolls Out Quote Capture Tool for Block…
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ETF broker WallachBeth Capital, a leading institutional brokerage firm, has announced the Phase I roll out of its internal proprietary Quote Capture platform. The platform further enhances WallachBeth’s commitment to providing institutional clients the highest degree of transparency throughout the ETF execution process. WallachBeth has always leveraged […] Read More

19 January, 2018
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Blockchain ETFs Debut-It’s About The Blockchain, Blockhead, Not Bitcoin!
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
What’s Next for exchange-traded-fund land? Blockchain ETFs! Duh?! Aside from the efforts by the Winklevoss Boys and a cadre of others to introduce a Bitcoin ETF, Blockchain companies (now known as ‘blocktech’ firms) fall into the sweet spot for fintech investors and public companies that are pivoting, re-purposing or adding to their value proposition with […] Read More

18 January, 2018
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SEC Chair Jay Clayton Axe: Greater Corporate Bond Market…
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Corporate Bond Market Transparency 4.0 MarketsMuse fixed income fintech curators, who have been on the beat for better than 8 years, were keen to cover this week’s inaugrual meeting of FIMSAC.  e-Bond trading system founders, fixed income fund managers and fintech aficionados who have long lamented the limited degree of US corporate bond market transparency and […] Read More

12 January, 2018

Bitcoin Barista of the Day Award: BnkToTheFuture
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
When it comes to corporate monikers, MarketsMuse fintech curators are big fans of catchy names and have made it a New Year’s resolution to compile and share a weekly list of firms that earn special recognition within the burgeoning world of blockchain, bitcoin and crypto handles. And, the winner for the first week of 2018 […] Read More

3 January, 2018
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Crypto Hedge Funds: Greenwich Crowd Buying Into Bitcoin Trading
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Crypto Hedge Funds Get Their Greenwich On. If the MarketsMuse curators have avoided bidding on and publishing tick-by-tick coverage of “crypto mania” and bitcoin bubblelicious bytes akin to our media industry brethren, its only because we were arguably a pioneer when, starting in 2014, we first started framing the bitcoin and distributed ledger evolution under the label […] Read More

20 December, 2017
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Another Old-Style Quant Jock Embraces ETF-Style Passive Investing
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Former LTCM Guru Gives Up the Ghost; Converts From Convergence Trading to Passive Investing Armed with ETFs Proving that old traders never die, they simply re-invent themselves, yet another highly-seasoned hedge fund guru whose pedigree extends back to Salomon Brothers and thereafter, senior partner at the now infamous hedge fund Long Term Capital (LTCM) has […] Read More

13 November, 2017
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SEC Aims to Rein In and Reign Over Initial…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Initial Coin Offerings [Finally] Get SEC Attention; The Duck Test 3.0. For those who believe the US SEC is slow to react when reining in and/or reigning over new-fangled investment products, the evidence indicates you are accurate. After all, recent history regarding sub-prime debt sold to unwary investors, Madoff-style investment management scams, payment-for-order schemes advanced […] Read More

11 November, 2017
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CME Group Says: Bitcoin Future Depends On…Bitcoin Futures Exchange
In Global Macro Strategy, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
CME Aims to Legitimize Bitcoin Marketplace via..What Else? A Bitcoin Futures Mart!! Any and every credible financial market veteran will argue that any credible financial instrument can only be credible when there is a legitimate marketplace in which buyers and sellers can express their view as to the value of that instrument. Bitcoin enthusiasts have […] Read More

1 November, 2017

Weinstein Saga Snags Company’s Co-CEO Glasser
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Courtesy of BrokerDealer.com) Whilst most of the news media coverage of the travails of Harvey Weinstein have been dedicated to sordid details and otherwise extoling the newly-appointed (or interim) corporate chiefs, it leads one to wonder whether investigative journalism is losing cache…But, lo and behold, one Hollywood news journalist has peeled back the onion to […] Read More

16 October, 2017
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Investor Solicitation 3.0 – Start-Ups Squared Away w Investor…
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
You’re an emerging fund manager, an entrepreneur vying to create a real estate development platform or you’re a fintech guru aiming to alter the current payment processing landscape with Ethereum that didn’t get the memo titled  “If you don’t have properly-pared Investor Offering Documents that comply with securities regulator regimes, you’re not likely to pass […] Read More

23 September, 2017
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Canada Stock Exchanges Weigh Walk-Back re Cannabis Share Listings
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Canada stock exchange regulators appear to be suffering from a pot-hangover, as exchange execs and regulators re-visit criteria for cannabis share listings. Its a high-flying industry for sure; 69 publicly-traded cannabis companies with aggregate market cap of USD $6.4bil have their shares listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the smaller TSX Venture Exchange and the […] Read More

14 September, 2017

What’s Next? A GOP-Friendly ETF That Tracks Corporate Friends…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
GOP-friendly ETF Set to List on BATS BZX; Exchange-Traded Fund with ticker MAGA Will Buy Companies Supportive of Republican Party Agenda We can’t make this sh*t up..Just when MarketsMuse curators thought we’d seen and heard it all when it comes to new-fangled ETF products, along comes an exchange-traded fund construct that has managed to surprise […] Read More

5 September, 2017