John Lothian: Week in Review (May 15-19, 2023)

JLN spoke with Jason Radzik, managing director at BNP Paribas, at the 2023 FIA conference in Boca Raton in March about the company’s growth and acquisitions, the ION attack, and the consequences for the industry of the FTX collapse.

Radzik said it is an exciting time for BNP Paribas, which won the Risk.net award for clearer of the year for the second year in a row. Radzik said the company has been taking advantage of the high volatility in the markets to grow, and it is growing the number of people on the team.

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In this episode of Options Discovery, Alex Teng introduces the different asset classes that options can be derived from. This includes assets such as fixed income, commodities, equities, indices, and currency. Alex then sits down with Luuk Strijers, chief commercial officer of Deribit, to discuss the emerging market of digital currency options and the Deribit exchange. Alex and Luuk discuss a variety of topics from growing options volume to regulatory concerns. Feel free to learn more about Deribit here: https://www.deribit.com/

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Martin Franchi, the CEO of NinjaTrader, spoke with JLN at FIA Boca in March 2023 about the integration of Tradovate and other acquisitions, the redesign of NinjaTrader, and the growth in technology and in the retail space.

Franchi said the technology NinjaTrader acquired with Tradovate – the mobile platform as well as the cloud infrastructure – has transformed the company internally. “We like to think we are NinjaTrader 2.0 now,” he said.

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John Lothian News interviewed John Ramsay, the chief market policy officer of IEX, about four recent proposals by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission to reform U.S. equity markets. Ramsay discussed each of the proposals with John Lothian, what the comment letter responses were and what the IEX responses were.

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