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The Fast Track to the Trading Floor Runs Through a Texas Public University |
| When TotalEnergies SE promoted Sophie Schultz last summer to become an asset trader at age 25, it wasn’t the first time she’d gained the French company’s vote of confidence. Total’s North American gas and power unit—plus dozens of other energy heavyweights—had unanimously voted almost five years earlier to greenlight her application to a Texas academic program that’s rapidly becoming one of the fastest routes to energy trading.
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JLN PRESS ROOM PAGE OF THE WEEK |
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| A put option, commonly referred to as a “put,” is a financial contract in options trading that gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified amount of an underlying asset, such as stocks or futures, at a predetermined price (the strike price) within a set period of time.[1] Puts are widely used by traders and investors for hedging, speculation, and income generation.IEX Group announced on Wednesday that it plans to launch IEX Options at the end of the first quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approval.
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All the Risk, None of the Panic: TS Imagine’s Martin Packham on Taming the Hydra of Market Hazards
BOCA RATON, Fla.-(JLN)-April 25, 2025—Martin Packham spends his days talking to people who stare into the abyss for a living—chief risk officers and global heads of risk. If their nightmares had a soundtrack, it would be the syncopated beeping of five different risk systems, each calculating with a different accent and none speaking the same language. “They will tell me that they have five different systems,” recounts Packham, sales director at TS Imagine. “They’re all calculating for different asset classes or for different desks. They’re using different data sets. They don’t calculate the same risk measures. And so they have a real challenge to kind of bring all of that together into one coherent and comprehensive view on risk.”
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Your Bank, Your Car, Your Digital Butler: SoundHound’s Executive VP on the Future of Talking to Machines
BOCA RATON, Fla.-(JLN)-April 24, 2025—Michael Anderson sees a future where you won’t just talk to your bank—you’ll talk to your bank in the car, at the grocery store, or walking through the front doors of your local branch, and your bank will know exactly who you are. Anderson, the executive vice president and general manager of Amelia.ai, enterprise conversational AI & autonomics of SoundHound, paints a world where “every employee, every consumer, anyone that’s touching or working in a business is going to have their own personal concierge. That’s digital.”
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From Boca’s Cabana to the CFTC: Jeff Bandman’s Odyssey Through Swaps, Silicon, and SBF’s Shadow
BOCA RATON, Fla. (JLN) – April 22, 2025 – If you want to know how an “event” can become a commodity, or how business gets done poolside with a floating drink in hand, Jeff Bandman is your guide. “People sometimes say, why do event contracts fall under the CFTC? How can an event be a commodity?” mused Bandman, founder of Bandman Advisors, at this year’s FIA Boca. “But in fact, the definition of what is a commodity under the Commodity Exchange Act is extremely broad. I give Congress a lot of credit for being very forward-looking in that.”
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R3 CEO David Rutter’s Blockchain Crusade: Herding Cats with Digital Collateral—and Zero Interest in Selling
BOCA RATON, Fla. (JLN) – April 21, 2025 – If you want to disrupt Wall Street’s plumbing, David Rutter will be the first to remind you: it’s not just about shiny new technology—it’s about getting centuries-old pipes to move. “Disrupting the status quo is hard in the institutional space,” says Rutter, CEO of the enterprise blockchain company R3, leaning in at FIA Boca as if sharing a conspiratorial secret. “Everything is built to the highest standards and built over decades. The folks that have interests along the way are throwing boulders and rocks in the new path as well… The evidence has to be overwhelmingly clear that the financial outcome is really worth all of the pain.”
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