FTX Opens Door to US Derivatives Trading With New Acquisition – The Motley Fool
FTX.US announced this week that it will acquire LedgerX, a U.S.-licensed crypto derivatives exchange. If the deal goes through, it will pave the way for FTX.US to expand its offer and allow its American retail investors to access more derivatives products. FTX is currently the sixth biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, according to CoinMarketCap […]
Crypto Banking and Decentralized Finance, Explained – The New York Times
DeFi platforms are structured to become independent from their developers and backers over time and to ultimately be governed by a community of users whose power comes from holding the protocol’s tokens. By comparison, centralized finance, or CeFi, businesses more closely resemble traditional finance, or TradFi, where consumers enter into an agreement with a company […]
Short or Long – Where do the Bitcoin, Ethereum derivatives markets stand – AMBCrypto News
Bitcoin and Ethereum accumulation continues in the spot market as the focus now shifts towards the derivatives market. Here, some interesting observations can be made, each of which shows us how Futures and Options have been affecting the spot market. And vice-versa. Those looking for profits in Bitcoin and Ethereum might find the derivatives market […]
How the ETF industry is tackling the next area of opportunity: derivatives – CNBC
The ETF industry has waded into a new area of opportunity. A regulatory change from the Securities and Exchange Commission last year opened up the use of derivatives for investment vehicles such as exchange-traded funds. Previous regulation had limited the way in which funds could offer products with “potential future payment obligations.” Simplify ETF has […]
Vaccine mandates: Employees paying to be unvaccinated is ‘very much like smoking surcharges,’ expert explains – Yahoo Finance
Amid widespread vaccine rollout and the recent full FDA authorization of the Pfizer (PFE) COVID-19 vaccine, many employers are now debating whether to mandate vaccinations among their employees and whether to financially deter unvaccinated individuals. Delta Air Lines (DAL), for example, recently announced that it will begin implementing a $200 monthly surcharge for all unvaccinated […]
Cathie Wood scooped up Zoom stock after it crashed — here’s why – Yahoo Finance
Cathie Wood picked up some shares of Zoom (ZM) this week after an earnings related meltdown. For the founder, CEO and CIO of Ark Invest, the $56 million purchase was a no brainer given the importance of Zoom to the future of communication. “We think there is a transformation taking place in the communication sector. […]
Decoding Derivatives – Q2 2021 | Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP – JDSupra – JD Supra
DC transparency, really? The credit derivatives determinations process has, for some time, been clouded in relative mystery. As credit default swap (CDS) strategies have grown more complex and gray-area issues have become more commonplace, advocacy in front of the Determinations Committee (DC) has also ramped up. In most instances, determination requests and other material and […]
Stock market news live updates: Stocks mixed, Nasdaq sets record close after August payrolls disappoint – Yahoo Finance
Stocks were mixed on Friday following the release of the Labor Department’s August jobs report, which showed a sharp deceleration in hiring last month amid the Delta variant’s latest spread. The S&P 500 traded near the flat line after reaching record intraday and closing highs just a day earlier. The Nasdaq edged higher to set […]
Traders Spooked as Friday Freak Trade Streak Continues on NSE Derivatives – Moneylife
Traders on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) are a worried lot currently. They are spooked by the increasing frequency of freak trades on the NSE derivatives segment (many of which have coincidentally happened on a Friday) leading them to be afraid of “Freaky Fridays”. What happened today? Today, the 37100 put options […]
UK bank derivatives exposures fall by £321bn in Q2 – Risk.net
The fair value of derivatives held by UK banks fell by £321 billion ($232 billion) to £5.03 trillion in Q2 2021 – the fifth consecutive quarterly decline since exposures hit £7.96 trillion in Q1 2020, Bank of England (BoE) data shows. FX futures and forwards and interest rate swaps accounted for the lion’s share of […]