Shanny Basar
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Nomination of Mike Selig as CFTC Chair Progresses
On 20 November 2025, the nomination of Mike Selig as chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission passed the Senate Agriculture Committee. For the last eight months Selig was chief counsel of the Crypto Task Force & senior advisor to Cha...
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Xtrackers Focuses on Retail and Geographic Growth
Xtrackers helped boost assets under management of its parent, Germany’s DWS Group, to record levels in the third quarter of this year and the exchange-traded fund business is focussed on attracting more retail investors in Europe and expanding geo...
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Eurex Looks to Unlock Growth Capacity
Robbert Booij has been chief executive of Eurex since July 2024 and from April this year Deutsche Börse Group’s derivatives trading and clearing arm implemented organizational changes which he believes will unlock new capacity for growth. Booij t...
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Climate Impact X Chooses Yaala Labs’ Cloud-Based P8 Platform
Climate Impact X (CIX), an exchange for trading carbon credits and renewable energy certificates, selected Yaala Labs, the financial technology provider, to consolidate all its trading venues into a single, integrated cloud-based platform. CIX ca...
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Euronext Transforms Over a Decade
In his first interview as manager of Liverpool football club, Jürgen Klopp said his aim was to change doubters into believers. Stéphane Boujnah has been on a similar journey since becoming chief executive officer and chairman of the managing board...
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MEFF Aims to Expand Derivatives to Retail, European Stocks
MEFF launched European-style cash-settled options this year and is also developing a retail strategy. The derivatives market of Spanish exchange group BME also has plans to expand its derivatives contracts from Spanish to European stocks. Cloti...
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Crypto Reinventing Capital Formation Will be 2026 Theme
Coinbase, the listed U.S crypto exchange, is launching an end-to-end token sales platform which Matt Hougan, chief Investment officer of digital asset fund manager Bitwise, said this is the beginning of crypto reinventing capital formation. On 10...
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Institutional Appetite for Digital Assets Grows
TP ICAP, a long-established name in traditional finance, launched a digital asset business in 2019. Duncan Trenholme, global co-head of digital assets at TP ICAP, discussed increasing institutional interest on the Open Order Podcast, a Traders Mag...
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