(RaiseMoney.com) -It takes a life-long pioneer in the insurance industry to know best when to grab first mover advantage whenever a new landscape appears, as evidenced by Tuesday's announcement from New York-based global insurer AIG, which says it will be the first to offer crowdfund insurance for investors in equity…Read More
(RaiseMoney.com)-Minneapolis-based Stratifund, which models itself as a modern day version of a traditional Wall Street "independent equity research firm" has become the first such firm to plant its flag on the crowdfunding beachhead and bring objective analysis to crowdfund deals. Led by a cadre of Wall Street-trained wonks and crowdfund…Read More
(RaiseMoney.com) May 16 2016 marks the beginning of what could be an avalanche of private equity offerings promoted via the web. Thanks to the JOBS Act and SEC Regulation Crowdfund, which now totals 685 pages of rules to live by for those in the U.S. Equity Crowdfunding space, including brokers…Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal authorities investigating the market-making arms of the $25bil hedge fund Citadel LLC and broker KCG Holdings Inc, are looking into the possibility that the two giants of electronic trading are giving small investors a poor deal when executing stock transactions on their behalf. The Justice…Read More
Bloomberg LP's agency broker Bloomberg Tradebook is continuing to grab market share in the ETF execution space thanks to introducing a blockbuster approach that has proven to work across a universe of hard-to-trade financial instruments: RFQ ("Request For Quote"). The "Bloomberg ETF RFQ" tool, which, according to a statement issued by Bloomberg…Read More
Cheryl Cargie, head trader at buy-side fund manager Ariel Investments in Chicago, said that while the buy side is looking for more from its sales trader coverage, it depends on whether a buy side trader is representing a passive or active strategy. For a veteran with over 20 years in…Read More
In effort to thwart the "Catch Me If You Can" crowd, the SEC has proposed a new audit system that will purportedly allow regulators to track every bid and offer submitted to stock and options exchanges in effort to catch market manipulators. (WSJ)--U.S. market regulators on Wednesday proposed a massive data repository…Read More
The high-frequency arms race, aka "Battle Between Wall Street-style Transformers" has extended to trading in USTs and HFT firms are invading the US Treasury market, according to latest from BusinessInsider.. (BusinessInsider)-High-frequency traders have taken over the market for US Treasuries, and a bunch of market participants say they're alarmed by the…Read More
Start-up corporate bond trading system OpenBondX is hoping to pull a rabbit out of its hat and jump start activity by emulating what the universe of equities-centric electronic exchanges and ATS platforms do in order to attract order flow to their respective venues: pay broker-dealers for orders given to them…Read More
The electronic exchange playing field is not for boy scouts. All is fair in love and war. That's the message NYSE is sending to upstart "Investors Exchange" aka IEX, as the world's most formidable financial market trading platform is simultaneously lobbying SEC regulators to block IEX's application to be designated…Read More
If you are into fintech, that means you 'get the joke' when it comes to using algorithms aka "algos" and for institutional investors having an ax with regard to environmental, social and governance factors (commonly known as ESG investing), Arabesque Partners, a new player in the fund management space might…Read More
(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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More
(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…Read More
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…Read More
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…Read More