Predictive Analytics: Finding the Right Patterns
Can we predict the future? Or at least have a better conception of potential outcomes? PreData is on the case. In this video, PreData CEO Hazem Dawani discusses how his firm approaches predictive...
View ArticleConsensus: Invest recap
In May 2018, Coindesk held its three-day Consensus conference in New York with huge and enthusiastic crowds going crazy over all things blockchain. This week, Coindesk reconvened the cryptocurrency...
View ArticleSaliba’s Execution Fight Gears Up
Anthony Saliba returned to the broker-dealer business in September 2017 by starting Matrix Executions. He had sworn he would never would come back to the space. Saliba had already conquered the...
View ArticleThe Business Bitmain Dominates
Bitmain, maybe the world’s largest cryptocurrency company, told us a lot about the risks and rewards inherent in being a dominant actor in the fast moving cryptocurrency industry when it published its...
View ArticleTether: The Cryptocurrency Markets’ Sword of Damocles
If 2018 was the year of the ICO (initial coin offering), then October of 2018 was “Stablecoin Month.” Between the launch of new “stablecoins” like the Gemini Dollar and the ominous news surrounding...
View ArticleWilson goes all in against the CFTC and the industry wins
There are traders who put their careers on the line every day in the markets. And then there’s Don Wilson, who put his career and firm on the line in court with the Commodity Futures Trading...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of Our Regulatory Environment (Part II), or Why the Earth...
Two years ago I wrote about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission enforcement action against Don Wilson and his company DRW Investments alleging price manipulation in certain financial instruments....
View ArticleMurphy & McGonigle Launches New Commodities & Futures Division To Help Firms...
These days, traders need good lawyers. They are a must-have in the age of regulatory overreach after the Dodd-Frank law, and for comprehending and complying with the rules as they get refined and...
View ArticleBitcoin’s role in the Mueller investigation
What do the investigation by FBI special counsel Robert Mueller and bitcoin have in common? Potentially, they’re both connected to a Russian hacker named Alexander Vinnik. The crypto world is lousy...
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