JLN Correspondent Julie Ros spoke with two executives from SGX, the Singapore Exchange, at FIA’s IDX Conference in London in June. Rama Pillai, managing director, global sales & origination, and KC Lam, head of FX and rates, talked about the changes they’ve seen with trading in Asia and the products their clients have been trading in the current environment.  

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JLN Correspondent Julie Ros interviewed Exberry CEO Guy Melamed at FIA’s International Derivatives Week (IDX) in June and asked him about the solution Exberry developed on a cloud environment and about its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

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David Weild, chairman of Weild & Co., Inc., played a significant role in helping create the environment for and passing of the JOBS Act, which transformed the way companies can raise money in U.S. markets. John Lothian News interviewed Weild for a podcast about...

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Laurent de Barry, Director of Hardware Trading Solutions at Exegy, spoke with JLN Correspondent Julie Ros at IDX in London. She asked him how Exegy helps firms address IT cost constraints, and he mentioned how Exegy helps companies make sure that when they pay for a solution it will help them differentiate themselves from the marketplace. He talked about the acquisition of Vela in 2021 and how it enriched Exegy’s portfolio. Ros also asked him who Exegy’s primary customers are.

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Markets have short memories. Four years ago, ICE created a fully-regulated, physically-delivered crypto futures market, with institutional-grade custody provided by ICE’s then-subsidiary, Bakkt. The custodian was regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services – a license which is, rightly, not easy to obtain – and all crypto transactions were protected by our highly regulated clearing house.

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John Lothian News Correspondent Julie Ros caught up with Contango CEO Clive Furness right after he had moderated a panel at FIA IDX London 2023 called “The Great Debate.” The debate was on the question of whether AI will spell the end of our markets as we know them. Furness said the two “fantastic” teams debated with much humor. The motion was defeated, meaning the house did not believe AI would end markets as we know them. Nevertheless, there are still important questions that need to be addressed, Furness said.

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Iouri Saroukhanov, head of European derivatives at Cboe Global Markets, was interviewed by JLN Correspondent Julie Ros at the FIA International Derivatives Week (IDX) in London recently. Saroukhanov discussed Cboe’s move into the European derivatives space and its competitive advantage for building a European derivatives exchange. JLN also asked Saroukhanov about the products CEDX offers and what differentiates CEDX from other exchanges in single stock options.

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IDX was full of goodbyes for Mark Spanbroek, the long-serving chair of the FIA European Principal Traders Group. JLN did not want to be left out and so JLN Correspondent Julie Ros interviewed Spanbroek at FIA’s International Derivatives Week after he had been interviewed on stage by former FT journalist Jeremy Grant. Spanbroek spoke to Ros about the initial formation of the European Principal Traders Group. He said the EPTG was set up 12 years ago right at IDX after the US Principal Traders Group was already set up by Don Wilson and affiliated with the FIA. Spanbroek said it was a slam dunk to get it done in Europe as well. Spanbroek gave credit to Remco Letterman for helping get the EPTG off the ground.

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