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BNP Paribas Gets Blockchain for Crowdfunding
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(RaiseMoney.com)-French broker-dealer BNP Paribas “gets the joke” when it comes to fintech applications for equity crowdfunding and is embracing blockchain technology to advance their vision. A subsidiary of BNP Paribas Group has announced a partnership that will find it leveraging blockchain technology to enable private companies to issue securities via equity crowdfunding.Revealed today, the partnership finds […] Read More

5 April, 2016
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BATS Takes 2nd Stab at IPO
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
The second time is hoping to be a charm for exchange operator BATS Global Markets as it announced a 2nd stab at an IPO, which will be led by Morgan Stanley and Citi and enable an exit for investors that include BAML and Knight Capital. Bats Global Markets announced the launch of its initial public […] Read More

5 April, 2016
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Canadian Exchanges Face-Off Over ETF Listings
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
Last week, Canadian upstart exchange Aequitas NEO announced its first ETF listing, and in response to that PR promotion, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), a subsidiary of TMX Group fired back with a slapshot, thanks to TD Asset Management (TDAM) listing and launching six new ETFs. (TradersMagazine) Executives from TD Asset Management opened trading of its […] Read More

4 April, 2016
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ETF Momentum for Canada Exchange Aequitas NEO
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
(TradersMagazine) The TSX is getting a run for its money. This week the Aequitas NEO Exchange (which only launched one year ago) signed its first listed security. Invesco Canada’s PowerShares DWA Global Momentum Index ETF, trading under the ticker DWG, took that honor and is also the first ETF listed on a Canadian exchange other […] Read More

1 April, 2016
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Blockchain Babe Blythe Masters in Repo Deal with DTCC
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Blythe Masters, the former grand dame of derivatives for investment bank JP Morgan, who after a less-than-glorious exit from her senior role overseeing credit derivatives for House of Morgan and who reinvented herself as a blockchain babe and leads digital ledger startup Digital Asset Holdings, has proven that every cute cat has nine lives. In […] Read More

30 March, 2016
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BATS Global is Batty About ETFs-Buys ETF.com
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
While many people are “koo-koo for Cocoa Puffs”, BATS Global is batty about ETFs. On the heels of launching a dedicated electronic exchange platform for ETF products dubbed BATS Marketplace,  BATS Global Markets announced yesterday that is even more batty about ETFs and to prove it, the exchange operator is acquiring the ETF industry’s leading […] Read More

30 March, 2016
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Best Execution Wack-A-Mole Aims at Wholesalers
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
When it comes to gauging best execution, that exercise is akin to a game of whack-a-mole when calculating in the role of wholesalers aka over-the-counter market-makers whose business model includes leveraging maker-taker rebate schemes. MarketsMuse credits below excerpted observations from TabbForum and courtesy of Stanislav Dolgopolov, Decimus Capital Markets, LLC (TabbForum) Compliance with the duty […] Read More

29 March, 2016
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NASDAQ To Buy ISE Options Mart
In Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg)-In what merger-arbitrage experts might call a ‘take-under’, Nasdaq Inc. is paying less than half the price for what ISE traded for in its last price setting after it agreed to buy Deutsche Boerse AG’s International Securities Exchange for $1.1 billion, catapulting it to the top of the U.S. options market.The transaction could also help […] Read More

10 March, 2016
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I’m Afraid There Is a New Fear Index
In ETF News, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
Exchanges Battle Each Other to Create Competing Fear Index Products, out of fear of losing market share. Another index product to “measure” investors’ fear?? Are they bats?! As MarketsMuse Chief Curator says, “Yes, Matilda, I’m afraid to say there is yet another new fear index” intended to compete with the now famous VIX product. Dubbed […] Read More

8 March, 2016
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BlackRock Botches Gold ETF; IOU for IAU
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
Administrative oversight left BlackRock unable to meet demand for its Gold ETF, IAU; Suspends New Issuance. (WSJ) –BlackRock Inc. said it suspended the issuance of new shares in IAU, its roughly $7.7 billion gold exchange-traded product due to an administrative oversight, in the latest bruise for the exchange-traded-fund industry and its largest provider. Analysts said the move […] Read More

5 March, 2016
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World’s Biggest Bank Gets It; Gives It Back
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
BNY Mellon ‘Gets It’ and Also Gives It Back. With close-on $29Trillion in deposits and $1.3Trillion in AUM, BNY Mellon (NYSE:BK), the oldest bank in the U.S. is not just the country’s biggest, it ranks as one of the world’s biggest banks. Hundreds of financial industry professionals now working across the financial markets ecosystem are […] Read More

4 March, 2016
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Pay-to-Play Rebate Schemes Confuse Smartest Traders
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Within the context of market structure, the ever-evolving rules of the road for those attempting to navigate how and where to secure best pricing when executing equities orders has become so convoluted thanks to pay-to-play rebate schemes, its not only the curators at MarketsMuse who are scratching their heads, even the most sophisticated traders from […] Read More

2 March, 2016
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FBI Breaking Its Brand Image In Effort to Break…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
James Comey, the former general counsel of global hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and current director of the FBI is, according to thought-leaders across the technology industry, “doing more to break the brand image of the country’s top law enforcement agency than it is in doing its job properly” as it continues to battle Apple Inc […] Read More

2 March, 2016
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Eaton Vance Launches Non-Transparent ETF aka “ETMF”
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
Eaton Vance Corp. today launched the first-ever non-transparent, actively-managed ETFs. Their new creation is called an exchange-traded managed fund (ETMF) and goes under the brand name NextShares. Quite a coup considering last week’s MarketsMuse story “SEC Chair White Says I’ve Got a Dream” [for the SEC to actually read offering prospectus of complex ETFs before […] Read More

26 February, 2016
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Symphony Pact With FlexTrade-Shot Across Bloomberg Bow
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Symphony, the Wall Street-backed secure messaging platform first designed to displace Bloomberg LP’s most ubiquitous feature and further reduce the Street’s dependency and technology costs synonymous with having a Bloomberg terminal, has struck another blow in the bow of Bloomberg’s boat thanks to the consortium-owned deal with electronic execution system provider FlexTrade. If not widely […] Read More

26 February, 2016
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2016 Wall Street Letter Award For Best Broker-Dealer Goes…
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
If not as widely-covered as the GOP or DNC primaries, financial industry publication Wall Street Letter (“WSL”) held its 5th Annual Institutional Trading Awards ceremony last night at NYC venue 583 Park Avenue and recognized best-in-class broker-dealers across 7 major categories, including Best Broker Dealer (OverAll), Best Broker-Dealer Research, Best BD-Client Service and Best Broker-Dealer […] Read More

24 February, 2016
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SEC Chair White: “I Have A Dream..”
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
SEC Mary Joe White has a dream, and even if she aspires to leverage the inspirational outlook of  Dr. Martin Luther King, securities industry members are debating whether her dream could prove to be a reality any sooner than the civil rights agenda expressed by Dr. King so many years ago.  In a series of […] Read More

19 February, 2016
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Bank Trading Desks Merge Bonds and ETFs
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Curator
Corporate Bonds and exchange-traded funds is a combination that first seemed counter-intuitive to the select universe of traders who are actually fluent in both corporate bond trading and equity trading; two practice areas that are distinctively different. “Stocks are bought and bonds are sold” as they used to say, and the nuances of trading these […] Read More

18 February, 2016