Attention Wall Street BlockHeads: Get Your Bitcoins Here
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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.” When Justin Brownhill wants to check up on one of his latest investments through fintech […] Read More

6 August, 2015

News Alert: SEC Set To Hit Pimco With Wells…
In ETF News, Fixed Income> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Bond giant Pacific Investment Management Co. aka Pimco said Monday that it received a Wells Notice from the SEC and the firm could be sued by the country’s top securities regulator over how it valued assets in ETF $BOND, one of its most popular exchange-traded bond funds aimed at small investors. MarketsMuse Flash News courtesy […] Read More

3 August, 2015

Global Macro Think Tank Rate Hike Hedge: A Rareview…
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Within the context of continuous guessing as to the outlook for a rate hike, and how to hedge fixed income portfolios accordingly, getting a strong fix on fixed income strategies has proven to be a challenge for a vast majority of professional investors during the past 24-26 months, many of whom have replaced high-priced wall […] Read More

3 August, 2015

Agency-Only Executing Broker: What Does Best Ex Mean?
In ETF News, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 assortment of major exchanges and […] Read More

28 July, 2015

Actively-Managed ETF Smackdown: Eaton Vance vs. Precidian
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
As reported previously by MarketsMuse, actively-managed ETFs, aka AMETFs (or as Eaton Vance has dubbed their product: “NextShares ETMFs”) are the next holy grail for Issuers of exchange-traded funds simply because these new-fangled products offer a refreshing new batch of flavors to a product category that has nearly 2000 issues whose structures are pretty much […] Read More

28 July, 2015

GlobalMacro Rare View: Fixed Income Market Flashing Recession Alert?
In Fixed Income, Global Macro Strategy> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse Global Macro and Fixed Income desks converge to share extract from 23 July edition of Rareview Macro commentary via its newsletter “Sight Beyond Sight”. For those not following the corporate bond market, most experts will tell you the equities markets follow the bond market–which in turn is a historical indicator when it comes to […] Read More

24 July, 2015

FinTech Fire in the Hole- Bond Trading Platform Bondcube…
In Fixed Income, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Introducing electronic trading to the corporate bond culture is not easy. Fintech initiatives have been trying to crack this egg for 20 years, each promoting the theory that enhanced transparency via electronic trading leads to enhanced corporate bond market liquidity, and ultimately, a robust marketplace for institutional traders to traffic corporate debt and/or via the […] Read More

24 July, 2015

Symphony Scheme to Displace Bloomberg Chat is Challenged by…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 the instant message chat platform […] Read More

23 July, 2015

Structured Products Percolate; Search For Yield Leads to Diversity…
In Fixed Income, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 institutional brokerage owned and operated […] Read More

22 July, 2015

BrokerDealer Exchange Rebates: BuySide Not Happy
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 talking about market structure, the […] Read More

17 July, 2015

FinTech Helps Power Bull Market For Unbundled Research
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 the domain of sell-side investment […] Read More

16 July, 2015

Swimming With New Sharks: Kevin O’Leary Jumps into ETF…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 to enter the crowded ETF […] Read More

14 July, 2015

John Hancock Selects Dimensional to Manage Smart Beta ETFs
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Marketsmuse updates that fund giant John Hancock Investments will partner with Dimensional Fund Advisors on six “smart-beta” exchange-traded funds, according to paperwork filed with regulators early on Monday. Dimensional, based in Austin, Texas, is one of the earliest proponents of factor investing. They blend elements of index-based investing and active investing in order to predictably […] Read More

13 July, 2015

Global Macro: Long/Short Hedge Funds Have Done Something Stupid
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 will either smile, smirk or […] Read More

9 July, 2015

FinTech Chapter 6: The Super 7: London Startups Dazzling…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse is keeping its fingers on the pulse of the FinTech movement, and aside from the initiatives that we’ve spot-lighted taking place courtesy of Wall Street Wonks, its more than fair to say that London is fast becoming the hub of innovation and technology, and attempting to lay claim to the position as the fintech […] Read More

9 July, 2015

NYSE Snafu Causes Market Structure Experts to Flip-Flop
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
MarketsMuse senior editors have quickly canvassed a broad assortment of “market structure experts” and industry talking heads who have been at the forefront of debating the pros and cons of market electronification, multiple market centers and the underlying issue: “Is Market Fragmentation Good, Bad or Ugly?” For those who might have just landed on Planet […] Read More

8 July, 2015

Currency Hedging On the Loose in ETF World
In ETF News> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
Do you hear that?  That stampeding sound you hear is coming from fund managers scurrying to get into the currency-hedging trade. Currency hedging ETFs have been in vogue this year given the ultra-lose monetary policy across the globe and a strong U.S. dollar against a basket of other currencies. The bullish trend in the dollar […] Read More

8 July, 2015

FinTech-Wall Street Wonks v. Silicon Valley Socializers
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Staff Reporter
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 noted in today’s coverage by […] Read More

8 July, 2015