John Lothian: Week in Review (August 7-11, 2023)

John Lothian News interviewed Michael Riddle, CEO of Eris Innovations, and Agha Mirza, managing director and global head of rates and OTC products for the CME Group about the success of the Eris SOFR products trading on the CME.

JLN asked about the origin story of the Eris products and when they began to trade on the CME.

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Last Friday John Lothian News interviewed ICE Chief Development Officer Chris Edmonds about the commentary he wrote that JLN published and why he wrote it and what he was trying to accomplish.

We asked him what lessons were learned from the BAKKT experience and what was ICE trying to accomplish with the exchange and clearing offering and what didn’t work?

Edmonds said the lesson learned was that the market did not want a physically delivered bitcoin contract.

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In this episode of Options Discovery, Asma Awass introduces the effect of dividends and corporate actions on options prices.

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In this Options Discovery full interview, Alex Teng sits down with Jordan Naylor, industry veteran and CEO of Matrix executions, for this week’s full interview.

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Matthias Graulich spoke with Julie Ros at the FIA IDX conference in London recently. Ros asked him about Eurex’s new STIR partnership. A couple of years ago Eurex launched a program for interest rates, swaps, and repos and they recently expanded the program to cover short term interest rate derivatives, he told her. “We grant virtual equity to the best performing partners, meaning we grant governance rights and share revenues on a perpetual basis to those who best support the success of this initiative,” he said.

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Rafael Zanatta, head of sales, EMEA, Eurex FTSE bitcoin index futures at Eurex, spoke with JLN Correspondent Julie Ros at the FIA’s International Derivatives Week (IDX) in June about Eurex’s recently launched FTSE bitcoin index futures.

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