fintech-blockchain-bonds

Even Blockheads Get Blockchain and Corporate Bond Issuance
In Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse fintech and fixed income curators are both noticing increasing upticks in stories relating to the use of blockchain technology specifically for use within the corporate bond issuance process. We might have been one of the first to focus on this application despite the early stage push back from IT blockheads within the securities industry who “didn’t […] Read More

21 January, 2016
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Global Macro-Don’t Shoot This Prescient Messenger
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(SubstantiveResearch.com) Neil Azous from Rareview Macro writes that many in the market still don’t get the joke of what’s going on – that is, a true exercise in risk reduction led by real money or that the bears are in charge. Indeed, he observes much of communications he and his team have been receiving is […] Read More

21 January, 2016
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Goldman Sachs in Whopping 5bil Settlement Over MBS Deals
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Announced after the close of trading on Thursday, Goldman Sachs $5.1 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, AGs from NY and IL and two other federal agencies in connection with the big bank’s underwriting and sale of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) sounds whopping, but seemed to have little impact on the Squid’s stock price […] Read More

14 January, 2016
cboe overhaul

Options Mart’s CBOE To Make Major Overhaul
In Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMedia : not to be confused with Madmen Media, owner of MarketsMuse.com)– In order to keep up with the demands of today’s high-volume electronic markets and leverage their fintech muscles, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the top options mart player plans to migrate its CBOE and C2 options markets as well as its CBOE Futures […] Read More

14 January, 2016
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Chicago FinTech Firm: Secondary Market for Crowdfunding
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse courtesy of Chicago Tribune)-The notion of a secondary trading market for crowdfund investments is not new–a topic that MarketsMuse has profiled more than once during past several months, but those efforts have been more noticeable outside the US. That’s now changing. Chicago-based CFX Markets launched a platform Tuesday allowing crowdfunding investors to sell their shares […] Read More

6 January, 2016
marketsmuse mr algo

Credit Suisse Bids Adieu to Mr. Algo in Wake…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg LP reporting via TradersMagazine) — Dan Mathisson, aka “Mr. Algo”, the executive who helped build Credit Suisse Group AG into an electronic-trading powerhouse over the past decade, plans to leave the bank at the end of next month, according to people familiar with the matter. Mathisson, who most recently served as head of U.S. […] Read More

6 January, 2016
marketsmuse debt market

MarketsMuse 2016 Debt Market Outlook-The Caribbean Connection
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
To kick off the 2016 debt market outlook, MarketsMuse fixed income curators are looking forward to the next Caribbean boondoggle, and in that spirit, we extend a shout out to Ron Quigley, one of the primary debt capital market’s top pulse-takers who also goes by the title Head of Fixed Income Syndicate for boutique investment bank, Mischler […] Read More

5 January, 2016
wrong way first trade global macro

2016-Global Macro-The Wrong Way First Trade
In ETF News, Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
You don’t need to be a MarketsMuse or a global macro guru (or any other type of pundit) to know that professional financial market traders are only as good as their last best trade. In that spirit, we look to the 2016 outlook and spotlight on the Wrong Way First (WWF) Trade courtesy of Rareview […] Read More

3 January, 2016
HEDJ

European ETF Strategy Unraveling
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(Bloomberg) — A European stock trade that deployed the use of ETF products as a means of hedging currency exposure is one that enamored global investors throughout 2015 and drew more money than practically anything else in equities is blowing up in people’s faces. As the moves in the the WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (NYSE:HEDJ) […] Read More

30 December, 2015
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Babe of Investment Banking Now Babe of Blockchain?
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Blythe Masters, once considered the “Babe of Investment Banking” in view of her long tenure and celebrity senior role at JPMorgan—which included her being credited for helping to create those snarkly financial derivative products known as credit default swaps (CDS), has since aspired to become known as either the “Blockchain Batgirl” or the “Babe of […] Read More

29 December, 2015
cantor fitzgerald finra

Cantor Fitzgerald Gets $7.3mil Spanking From FINRA
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
(BrokerDealer.com)- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has given a $7.3mil spanking to broker Cantor Fitzgerald  consisting of a $6 million fine and an order to pay $1.3 million for commissions, plus interest, it received from selling billions of unregistered microcap shares in violation of federal law in 2011 and 2012. In addition to its […] Read More

22 December, 2015
BOJ ETF plan

BOJ ¥300 Billion Plan to Buy Nonexistent ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
BOJ ¥300bil plan to support “companies investing in physical and human capital” via high cap-ex indices is missing one ingredient: the high cap-ex ETF investment vehicles. (Bloomberg) by Yuko Takeo-Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has a new plan. He’s going to buy ¥300 billion ($2.5 billion) of something that doesn’t exist. Markets were roiled […] Read More

21 December, 2015
dealindex crowdfund industry

CNBC Trumps Bloomberg In Crowdfund Industry Indices
In Global Macro Strategy, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(RaiseMoney.com) The Equity Crowdfund Industry continues to go mainstream, as evidenced by this week’s market data and index intel pact signed between business news platform CNBC and DealIndex, a self-described “global deal and data aggregator for the best crowdfunding opportunities.”  The deal will have the two firms launching four equity crowdfunding indices that provide metrics […] Read More

18 December, 2015
fintech senahill

FinTech Thought Leadership-Sizzle Reels Sell
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Being a fintech thought-leader is ‘non-trivial’ as they say in the software world, but expressing vision, domain fluency and passion is arguably the first step that any aspiring thought leader, or for that matter, any already-established banker who navigates the deal world of Wall Street and surrounding areas needs to master–before believing that you can […] Read More

14 December, 2015
european etf

European ETFs Displace Futures Products
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMedia) European ETFs and ETPs have gathered record net new assets in the first 11 months of this year, in many cases using as a displace to futures products. ETF Issuer BlackRock expects the size of Europe’s exchange-traded product market to double over the next three to four years. ETFs/ETPs listed in Europe had gathered $72.6bn […] Read More

14 December, 2015
leveraged ETFs

The Big Short: Leveraged ETFs, By David Miller
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
The Big Short is coming to a theater near you soon, but the hedge fund industry’s cool kid of the year David Miller has traded ahead of his peers by exploiting and being short of the popular ETF industry product: leveraged ETFs  and “inverse ETFs”; products that are typically powered by futures contracts so as […] Read More

14 December, 2015
global macro stock conflagration

Global Macro Guru: Simmering Stock Conflagration?
In Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Global Macro curators, like many across the hedge fund complex, have attempted to decipher an investment thesis that can prove itself without being hijacked by short-term volatility. Deflation, Inflation, Oil, the Dollar and bets being made in advance of the Fed’s widely-expected interest rate adjustment are talking point ingredients that are potentially leading to […] Read More

8 December, 2015
BATS ETF exchange

BATS Scoring New Listing Runs Via Payment To ETF…
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Curator
(ETF.com)-BATS Global Markets has been aggressively taking on well-established NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges in the battle for ETF listings.  MarketsMuse.com ETF news curators found the BATS exchange is apparently scoring runs via new listings courtesy of paying ETF Issuers to list their products vs. the old-school exchange model that has Issuers paying an exchange an […] Read More

4 December, 2015