For Wall Street bankers and brokers who have been in the business since at least the early 2000's and are still working on the Street, and who think you've already been pilloried plenty for the work you do, watch out, former Lehman broker-turned best-selling author Michael Lewis ("Liar's Poker", "Money…Read More
MarketsMuse curators note that "there is always a better way, until its not better. .."But that isn't stopping Betterment LLC, the startup robo-adviser that claims to offer a solution for investors who seek an automated approach to stuff ETFs into their401k portfolios. Betterment, a leading robo-adviser, announced last week that…Read More
As if there were not enough electronic trading platforms, the buyside remains determined to have their own equities trading platform open only to buy-side block trading peers. MarketsMuse Tech Talk Editors tip our hats to FierceFinanceIT.com for the following update re Luminex Trading & Analytics, the ATS block trading venue…Read More
One needs to have 'been there and seen that' for at least twenty years in order to have been "loaded for bear" in advance of this morning's equities market rout. At least one of the folks who MarketsMuse has profiled during the past many months meets that profile; and those…Read More
MarketsMuse fintech update is a "bid on" to prior Wall Street bitcoin initiative coverage, and following is courtesy of excerpt from 4 Aug story by Bloomberg LP reporter Andrew Leising, " Wall Street, Meet Block 368396, the Future of Finance." [caption id="attachment_3847" align="alignleft" width="180"] Justin Brownhill, SenaHill[/caption] When Justin Brownhill…Read More
MarketsMuse dip and dash department frequently prefers spotlighting altruists and do-gooders, including Agency-only execution firms in the brokerdealer sphere who, unlike “principal trading desks”, do not take the contra side to institutional customer orders as a means of making a profit; agency-only firms merely execute those client orders via the…Read More
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