| JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK |
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| Coinbase Hit With $6.5 Million Fine By CFTC; Market Debut Rumored To Be Delayed |
Digital asset trading platform Coinbase took a $6.5 million hit on Friday when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it had settled charges against the firm. The agency charged Coinbase with “reckless false, misleading, or inaccurate reporting as well as wash trading.”
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| MWE PRESENTS: THE HISTORY OF FINANCIAL FUTURES EPISODE: GAME CHANGERS, PART II |
Eleven years ago John Lothian News began work on a video series about the history of financial futures. We were motivated to get this history on video because of the death of Jack Wing, the CEO of The Chicago Corporation, who was an early supporter and proponent of the financial futures products. We wanted to preserve this history in video format before those that had created financial futures all disappeared.
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| 10 MOST CLICKED STORIES OF THE WEEK |
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| 4 MOST CLICKED MARKETSWIKI PAGES OF THE WEEK |
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| | So, what happens when $6 billion worth of bitcoin options expire? Well, we’ll find out later today. So far the most common open positions on the Panama-based exchange Deribit, where the majority of bitcoin options are traded, are for call options with April 30th expirations and $80,000 strike prices, which are about $19,000 higher than bitcoin’s all-time high set a couple weeks ago. A lot of traders are betting on bitcoin “mooning” – which is crypto lingo for the price spiking upwards – more like “moonshot,” am I right?
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| | | THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 3/8/2021 |
The John Lothian Daily Update is a podcast turning the daily JLN hits and takes comments, our original content and the stories and quips in the top box of First Read into a daily podcast.
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| | | Eurex Derivatives Forum: Fixed Income Looks For a Recipe For ESG Success |
Sustainable investments are new by most measures. This is especially true in the fixed-income sector, where ESG products are in their infancy and clients tend to be more conservative investors, according to members of a panel who addressed the issue on Wednesday at the Eurex Derivatives Forum.
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| | | Eurex Derivatives Forum Takes a Look At German Blockchain Innovation |
Day One of the Eurex Derivatives Forum, held this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, offered a discussion of German developments in blockchain innovation. Germany has implemented not only detailed legislation on custody of cryptocurrencies and digital assets but has also recently adopted a law allowing electronic issuance of securities, including on blockchain.
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| | | Ram Vittal – John Lothian News Zoom Interview |
BlockFi is a New York City-based start-up cryptocurrency financial institution. It offers lots of crypto services to its customers, including lending U.S. dollars against bitcoin and other cryptocurrency as collateral, as well as accepting deposits of cryptocurrencies which pay interest to the depositor.
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| | | Coinbase Hit With $6.5 Million Fine By CFTC; Market Debut Rumored To Be Delayed |
Digital asset trading platform Coinbase took a $6.5 million hit on Friday when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it had settled charges against the firm. The agency charged Coinbase with “reckless false, misleading, or inaccurate reporting as well as wash trading.”
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