| July 08, 2022 | | | |  | Jeff Bergstrom
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| | | | Lead Stories | | | New crypto options and futures exchange 'Thalex' closes Series A funding round
Cision PR Newswire
Thalex, a trading platform offering stablecoin-settled crypto options and futures, announced it has closed its Series A funding round of EUR 7.5 million. Among the participants are Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Flow Traders, IMC, QCP and Wintermute. These strategic investors will support the company's ambition to enable on-exchange trading of crypto derivatives at scale by removing friction, ensuring platform reliability and partnering with liquidity providers and major exchanges.
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CME's Event Contracts: Are Binary Options Back?
Arnab Shome - Finance Magnates
Binary options are notoriously controversial in several jurisdictions. These trading instruments are banned in the United Kingdom, European Union, Canada and Australia, which was the latest one to impasse a ban, and even Israel, which was previously home to many binary options platforms.
However, the United States, which has one of the strictest regulated financial markets and does not even allow CFD trading, permits companies to offer binary options contracts in a highly regulated environment.
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The effects of volatile markets: lessons learned and measures taken
Eurex
Volatility is one of the most important buzzwords of our time. Volatile market conditions have challenged our industry from the start of the COVID pandemic to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. Volatility and its impact on markets and systems is also one of the main topics at the upcoming FIA Forum 2022 on 12 July in Frankfurt. For Eurex, Melanie Weber, Head of Derivatives Clearing Design, is participating. We took the opportunity to talk to her about the topics that will be discussed on the panel.
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It's Been a Rough Stretch for ETFs. These Funds Bucked the Trend.
Evie Liu - Barron's
The second quarter of 2022 was brutal for most fund investorsâand many fear the worst is yet to come.
Stock funds fell everywhere, with nearly no place to hide. The iShares Russell 1000 (ticker: IWB) and iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) exchange-traded funds, which track the performance of large-cap and small-cap stocks, respectively, both tumbled 17% in the quarter. And although cheaper stocks generally held up better, the value-focused versions of the two funds still lost 13% and 16%, respectively.
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Commodity ETFs tumble on recession worries, but catch a rally on 'Reinflation Day'
Christine Idzelis - MarketWatch
Exchange-traded funds that invest in commodities have taken a beating lately, eroding this year's big gains for some while others are down so far in 2022.
ETFs focused on energy, metals and diversified commodities have suffered as investors have worried that the U.S. may be heading for a recession.
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| | | | | | Exchanges | | | Why the Market Data Monopoly Won't Be Nirvana; US exchange operators are fighting to keep their role in the collection and dissemination of core market data.
Shanny Basar - Traders Magazine
On 5 July 5 2022 a group of US exchange operators won an appeals court ruling which maintained their role in the collection and dissemination of core market data. This will be a disappointment to users who have complained about the increasing cost of market data which they need to buy to meet regulatory requirements such as evidencing best execution. They claimed this was due to the monopoly power of exchanges such as Nasdaq, NYSE and Cboe Global Markets who had filed the court case.
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Miami International Holdings Reports June 2022 Trading Results; Sets Year-to-Date Volume Records
MIAX
Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) today reported June 2022 trading results for its U.S. exchange subsidiaries - MIAX , MIAX Pearl and MIAX Emerald (together, the MIAX Exchange Groupâ¢), and Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEXâ¢).
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| | | | | | Strategy | | | Traders Could Look to VIX ETFs to Hedge Against a Turn for the Worse
Nasdaq
The CBOE Volatility Index, or so-called VIX, and related exchange traded funds have seen some wild swings this year, and volatility traders are hedging against even bigger oscillations ahead.
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