Shanny Basar

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) said the bipartisan bill she introduced this year would have prevented the collapse of crypto firm FTX, which has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Senator Lummis was interviewed at the Financial Times’ Cry...

The collapse of crypto firm FTX will lead to the definition of institutional-grade custody for digital assets and best practices will move up the priority list. David Easthope, senior analyst who heads up fintech research on the market structur...

Lisa Woll, chief executive of US SIF, welcomed the final rule from the US Department of Labor that fiduciaries may consider environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) in their investment decisions and when they exercise shareholder rights....

Giovanni Vicioso, global head of cryptocurrency products at CME Group, said a differentiator for the firm is that it is a regulated marketplace offering regulated products that brings transparency and price discovery, so clients can efficiently tr...

Kristin Johnson, commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said the regulator has its “feet on the ground” at LedgerX, the US derivatives business owned by FTX, but which is not included in the crypto firm’s bankruptcy filing. In ...

Crypto exchange FTX has filed for Chapter 11: https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1591071832823959552 Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive, said: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591089320290816000 https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/statu...

Nasdaq has completed the move of its first market to the cloud as part of its multi-year partnership with Amazon’s cloud business, AWS, to migrate all of its North American markets. In November last year Nasdaq announced a partnership with AWS to...

Eric Stockland, head of quantitative strategy at BMO Capital Markets, said electronic equity trading is in a “golden age” as venues compete for institutional business on performance, rather than fees.  Stockland told Markets Media that BMO Capita...