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CME Group has announced plans to launch options on its bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020, pending regulatory review. “Based on increasing client demand and robust growth in our bitcoin futures markets, we believe the launch of options will provide our clients with additional flexibility to trade and hedge their bitcoin price risk,” says Tim […]
It’s been a busy 20 years since Profit & Loss launched. Colin Lambert and Galen Stops have picked out 20 key events or trends during that time and asked senior industry figures for their perspective on them – here’s numbers 15-11. 15. Last Look “Last look is a cancer at the heart of the foreign […]
It’s the past, present and future as far as the agenda for this week’s In the FICC of It podcast is concerned as Colin Lambert and Galen Stops take a look at the chaos in the UK surrounding Brexit, digital assets, and the e-revolution that hit FX 20 years ago. Stops is surprised by the […]
Back in 2013, when Profit & Loss first started writing about this new digital currency that was creating a buzz called “bitcoin”, most mainstream financial services firms wanted nothing to do with it. Yes, a few banks and other large firms were starting to put out some research papers about bitcoin, but this was generally […]
TrueDigital, a provider of institutional-grade products to the crypto space, has announced a partnership with Crux Informatics (Crux), a cloud-based platform and managed service that provides data delivery and operations at scale. Through this partnership, trueDigital OTC cryptocurrency reference rates will be available to its institutional customers. These indices will provide the crypto community with […]
This week’s podcast sees Colin Lambert and Galen Stops respond to listener feedback from recent episodes before turning their attention to events in the FX market last week – and the return of volatility. With the trade war and central bank surprises suddenly kicking FX markets into life Lambert is intrigued to see if the […]
Since the price of crypto assets spiked dramatically in 2017, many have been predicting that a wave of institutional money is going to come into the cryptocurrency market, bringing with it a flood of change. However, speakers at Profit & Loss’ Forex Network London event argued that the “institutionalisation” of the crypto markets will play […]
Colin Lambert is on the defensive from the start of this week’s podcast thanks to another disastrous prediction in the previous edition of In the FICC of It, so listen in to enjoy his discomfort as he and Galen Stops discuss the return of volatility to bitcoin and while doing so decide for yourself – […]
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved LedgerX, a cryptocurrency trading venue, as a Designated Contract Market (DCM). This will allow LedgerX to offer bitcoin spot and physically settled derivatives contracts to retail clients, which it plans to do through its new platform, LedgerX Omni. Founded in 2014, LedgerX obtained approval to act […]
In this week’s lively and extended podcast Colin Lambert and Galen Stops mange to disagree on just about everything as they dig into the details around the announcement that Citi has given notice to four of the biggest non-bank market makers in FX and discuss the potential implications for the industry as a whole. They […]
