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Class Action Lawsuit Aims at TD; Broker Rebates from…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Broker Rebates From Exchanges and HFT Firms May Be Securities Fraud, Says Federal Judge Broker Rebates, Payment-for-Order-Flow (“PFOF”) and “Pay-to-Play” have become synonymous with new world order in which exchanges, dark-pool operators and high-frequency trading (“HFT”) firms, (the so-called “flashboys”) dominate the world of stock trading. While many Wall Street geniuses will argue “the genie […] Read More

23 September, 2018
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NYSE Floor Broker Lauren Simmons Breaking Records & Glass…
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
MarketsMuse Curators extend our thanks for the excerpt below, courtesy of Aug 1 feature story by Philly Inquirer Reporter, Erin Arvedlund. Follow Erin on Twitter via   @erinarvedlund  or email  EArvedlund@phillynews.com NYSE Floor Broker Lauren Simmons is breaking records and glass ceilings. She’s the youngest female and only the second African American woman to ever work at the NYSE […] Read More

1 August, 2018

Securities Regulations 3.0 Digital Token Offerings, ICO vs. STO
In Strike Price, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Digital Token Offerings & Securities Regulation: Are you an ICO or STO? (the following is courtesy of Prospectus.com LLC)  A question that is harder to ask than whether asked if your product is butter or margarine. Blockchain token sales (aka initial coin offerings or “ICOs”) reportedly topped $5 billion in 2017, with approximately $1 billion […] Read More

6 July, 2018
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ETF View: What’s Next: Telecom-Media Merge Into XLC
In ETF News, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Extra! Extra! XLC is the new ETF that ties telecom and media constituents into one exchange-traded fund! For those with a view towards latest and greatest ETF products, eyes and ears are on the Communications Services Select SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA: XLC) — “it tracks the Communication Services Select Sector Index and “seeks to provide precise exposure to […] Read More

3 July, 2018
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Morgan Stanley Ratchets Up Electronic Bond Trading Team
In Fixed Income, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Morgan Stanley Raises Its Hand and Appoints e-Trading Veteran to lead investment bank’s scheme for the Electronification of Fixed Income Markets. Electronic bond trading has long been a holy grail for certain folks in and around Wall Street. On the one hand, reducing head count and mitigating dependence on high-paid sales people as opposed to ‘electronifying’ the […] Read More

25 June, 2018
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Former NYSE Prez Farley Launches Fintech SPAC IPO
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Tom Farley, the former top gun at the NYSE, has long advocated the benefits of raising capital via the construct of Special Purpose Acquisition Company aka “SPAC”, aka “Blank Check company.” Now he’s become the CEO poster boy for SPACs with the formal IPO and NYSE listing of Fintech SPAC Far Point Acquisition Corp., a […] Read More

13 June, 2018
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Big Board Bets on former Bloomberg “Babe”: Betty Liu…
In People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
Bloomberg’s Betty Liu Moves to C-Suite Role at NYSE (Original story from Traders Magazine – June 6- by John D’Antona Jr.)–The women’s movement continues at the U.S.’ NYSE, the oldest public stock exchange,  announced that former Bloomberg “babe” Betty Liu, who is also founder of financial content firm Radiate, Inc., will become Vice Chair of […] Read More

8 June, 2018
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Boston Options Exchange to Launch Securities Token Mart
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Securities Token Offering to Displace Initial Token Offering Fad; BOX in JV with digital broker-dealer tZero to Create Securities Token Exchange platform (Redistributed with permission; story from Traders Magazine)-Well, Matilda, the Boston Options Exchange (BOX) is plotting to create the first regulated exchange to list and traffic in securities tokens as a means to legitimatize […] Read More

24 May, 2018
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Crypto Cool Kids Getting The Joke-Aim at Bank Licensing
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
What’s Next? CryptoCurrency Bank License; Crypto Cool Kids New Goal: Stay Inside Regulatory Goal Posts Coinbase Inc. and another cryptocurrency firm talked to U.S. regulators about the possibility of obtaining banking licenses, a move that would allow the startups to broaden the types of products they offer. Coinbase, which operates the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, […] Read More

18 May, 2018
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Goldman Sachs Goes Crypto; Opens Bitcoin Trade Desk
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Goldman Sachs, the venerable investment bank and trading house, has been called lots of things, including “Squid.” But nobody on Wall Street can dispute the fact that $GS is uniquely innovative and perhaps, a firm that can smell the trail of money better than its peers and explains why Goldman is opening a bitcoin trade desk. […] Read More

3 May, 2018
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Fintech Startup Alpha Trading Labs Brings HFT to Retail…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Alpha Trading Labs, the Chicagoland fintech “crowd sourcing startup” has thrown the gauntlet down and threatens to democratize the sacred world of HFT wonks, those hoodie-wearing quant jocks who occupy $1mil per yr cubicles at high-frequency trading firms like Virtu, Citadel, Jones Trading, Hudson Trading, and Two Sigma (among others). You know who mean, those […] Read More

24 March, 2018
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SEC Subpoena Smackdown: ICO Issuers & Enablers Get Pinned
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
An SEC subpoena is not exactly what any Issuer (or stock promoter) puts on the top of their birthday wish list. And, for crypto cool kids who are either already a member of the ICO Issuers Club, or who have applied to become part of the dapper dapp crowd that is floating digital coin or […] Read More

2 March, 2018
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Memo to Asset Managers : Get on the Blockchain…
In Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
Asset Management Industry is Notorious for Waste: Its About Blockchain, You Blockheads. NOT Bitcoin, Blockchain Dapps Can Mitigate Risk of “Death By Drop Copy” Any asset manager in today’s world who has more than $500 of AUM does not need to be fluent in the language of fintech, blocktech or be able to explain ‘the […] Read More

27 February, 2018
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MiFID II Fuels Massive EU Move Towards ETFs, ETF…
In ETF News, Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles, Strike Price> By MarketsMuse Curator
MiFID II Implementation Triggers Flow of $50b into Europe ETF Market In First Weeks of 2018; ETF Sec Lending and  ETF Options Growth Expected to Drive EU Financial Markets. “What we’ve seen for the first time in European ETF trading is really a concerted interest in trading ETF options in Europe. A load of clients […] Read More

26 February, 2018
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BlockTech Bid Repeats via Bloomberg: Its About Blockchain, NOT…
In People Profiles, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse fintech and blocktech curators extend our thanks to Prospectus.com LLC for the following contribution)-Bloomberg Intelligence reporter Jonathan Tyce wins the Valentine’s Day Award for Very Good Framing courtesy of his latest piece “Blockchain is Coming Everywhere, Ready or Not” –one of a series of articles by Tyce that puts the blockchain value proposition into […] Read More

14 February, 2018
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MiFID II : Sell-Side Research Analysts Unwanted Thanks to…
In Global Macro Strategy, People Profiles> By MarketsMuse Curator
(MarketsMuse blog post image courtesy of Institutional Investor)–Thanks to MiFID II, Sell-Side Research Analysts are not only unwanted, they will become increasingly underemployed in terms of compensation, or simply unemployed. This increasing view is bleak for investment bank research wonks, but provides for a career re-purposing on the part of experienced research analysts. At least […] Read More

12 February, 2018
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ETF Broker Rolls Out Quote Capture Tool for Block…
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Jan. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — ETF broker WallachBeth Capital, a leading institutional brokerage firm, has announced the Phase I roll out of its internal proprietary Quote Capture platform. The platform further enhances WallachBeth’s commitment to providing institutional clients the highest degree of transparency throughout the ETF execution process. WallachBeth has always leveraged […] Read More

19 January, 2018
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Blockchain ETFs Debut-It’s About The Blockchain, Blockhead, Not Bitcoin!
In ETF News, Tech Talk> By MarketsMuse Curator
What’s Next for exchange-traded-fund land? Blockchain ETFs! Duh?! Aside from the efforts by the Winklevoss Boys and a cadre of others to introduce a Bitcoin ETF, Blockchain companies (now known as ‘blocktech’ firms) fall into the sweet spot for fintech investors and public companies that are pivoting, re-purposing or adding to their value proposition with […] Read More

18 January, 2018