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Robinhood and other 'low cost' brokers are still quietly screwing over their users
The ongoing fiasco that grew out of online broker Robinhood's decision to limit customers' ability to buy "meme stocks" like GameStop in January has produced a lot of noise, but also a silver lining.

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THE HISTORY OF FINANCIAL FUTURES EPISODE: GAME CHANGERS, PART II
Eleven years ago John Lothian News began work on a video series about the history of financial futures. We were motivated to get this history on video because of the death of Jack Wing, the CEO of The Chicago Corporation, who was an early supporter and proponent of the financial futures products. We wanted to preserve this history in video format before those that had created financial futures all disappeared.

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THE SPREAD: OCC reports highest volumes in its history in Q1 2021; CFTC cracks down on binary options
This week on The Spread, the OCC and several major exchanges report trade volumes, the CFTC orders a Brooklyn man to pay $1 million in penalties over a binary options scheme, and more.

THE JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS DAILY UPDATE (WEEKLY ROUNDUP) – WEEK OF 4/5/2021
The John Lothian Daily Update is a podcast turning the daily JLN hits and takes comments, our original content and the stories and quips in the top box of First Read into a daily podcast.

RICHARD SANDOR MAKES HISTORY WITH FINANCIAL FUTURES – JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
Richard Sandor is known as the “father of financial futures,” a name given to him by the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Board of Trade for his work in helping to create 30-Year Treasury bond futures and many other financial contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade when he was their chief economist.

TRADING TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES MATCHING PROGRAM TO BENEFIT GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN FOR MARKETSWIKI EDUCATION VIDEO SERIES AND JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
As a pioneer of electronic trading, we at Trading Technologies value our industry’s rich history. We recognize the need to preserve our legacies and lessons to broadly educate and inspire those to come. This is what John Lothian News is doing through the Open Outcry...

THE FULL FX CO-FOUNDER COLIN LAMBERT TALKS WITH JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
Out of the ashes of last fall’s closing of Profit & Loss, longtime P&L editor Colin Lambert and the former commercial director of P&L, Michelle Hemstedt, have launched a new publication, The Full FX. John Lothian News interviewed Lambert in Sydney over Zoom recently about starting the publication, who is involved, and what the plan is.

SGX’S CEO TALKS WITH JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
John Lothian News interviewed Singapore Exchange CEO Loh Boon Chye over Zoom in Singapore after the FIA Boca-V conference. Boon Chye talked about SGX, its new products and marketing during the pandemic.

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