Over the years trading desks at the largest banks and broker-dealers profited not just from executing client trades, but because they had the pulse of the market. It was their job to know who was trading what, who held what, who had an interest...

With Bitcoin topping $11,000 this weekend for the first time since March 2018, the crypto winter is definitely over. The same cannot be said for enterprise blockchain initiatives. To be fair, the term more commonly used to describe the current...

Over 60% of trading in the U.S. Treasury market is done via electronic trading venues. Many market observers believe this means that the relationships between dealers and bond investors are eroding and that the marketplace has become devoid of human...

For most people, cryptocurrency is synonymous with Bitcoin. Bitcoin was the original and is the largest and most successful. Today however there are almost 1,000 other cryptocurrencies and tokens in circulation, according to CoinMarketCap. For the...

Last week I attended the sold-out Empire Startups FinTech conference in NYC. From the moment I walked in I realized this was not your typical stop on the conference circuit. The venue was Webster Hall – a downtown nightclub venue repurposed for...

In my first blog post on the evolving blockchain technology landscape I wrote about how, following the hype of 2015, this year would see technology companies and financial services firms explore different ways to use the blockchain technology in...

I recently participated in a great panel discussion with James Jockle from Numerix and Kazu Yokokawa from the Nomura Research Institute. I look forward to getting an update from Kazu on the POCs they are working on!    

Richard Johnson, Greenwich Associates vice president of market structure and technology, discusses the results of the firm's survey of 256 buy-side traders around the world. He speaks with Bloomberg's Alix Steel on Bloomberg Markets. Bloomberg...

The biggest FinTech story of last week was the announcement that not only had Digital Asset Holdings (DAH)  raised $52mm in funding, but had also secured a strategic contract to develop distributed ledger (blockchain) settlement solutions for...

There has been plenty of talk amongst the industry about the MiFID II rules aimed at bringing more transparency to dark pool trading venues across Europe.  Regulators claim the lack of transparency and details around transactions is dangerous...