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SEC reiterates its determination to reject the Grayscale spot ETF

SEC, ETF

According to court documents, the Securities and Exchange Commission reiterated its position on its decision to deny Grayscale’s application to introduce a bitcoin ETF and reiterated that such products are vulnerable to fraud and manipulation. Over the summer, Grayscale complained that this US regulator was using an unfair double standard by permitting bitcoin futures ETFs […]

The 8 languages of data science

languages, data science

The information keeps arriving. The task of a data scientist is to organize all of those interminable pieces into a logical analysis so that data users can start searching for solutions in the sea of data. There are many excellent programming languages available for this task (data science), which is fantastic news. But is there […]

The flaws in the US Treasury bond market

bond market, US

It should be simple to buy and sell bonds on the biggest bond market in the world. Gregory Whiteley, a bond portfolio manager at DoubleLine Capital, claims that for the majority of this year, it hasn’t exactly been easy. In this $24 trillion market, a dealer could previously regularly obtain $400 million worth of US […]

A crypto scam attempt is made every four minutes

crypto scam

According to a recent survey, the most common scam in the cryptocurrency industry is rug pulling. Rug pull tokens are designed specifically to defraud small-scale investors. Their smart contracts frequently contain code that prevents secondary sales, permits developers to create new tokens, or imposes 100% sell costs on buyers. These tokens work together to steal […]

A new market-making regime starts with Shanghai’s STAR Market

STAR, Market, Shanghai

The first of its type in a domestic stock exchange, a new market-making mechanism will be formally introduced on Monday on Shanghai’s STAR Market, which is modeled after NASDAQ. As part of a larger effort to create a more sophisticated capital market, the implementation of the market-maker mechanism is expected to improve stock liquidity and […]

How retail European investors started using ETFs

retail investors, ETF, Europe

When have retail investors in Europe started to use ETFs? Relatively long ago, as evidenced by the ETFs’ rapid increase of 2020. According to data from Morningstar, themed ETFs have drawn significant inflows month after month during 2020, which was a significant indication that the retail market was beginning to participate in ETFs on this […]

Advances in “self-driving” AI for buy-side trading

buy-side trading

Until they stop working, algorithms function well. This adage in trading was mostly based on the times when algos were essentially a “set-it-and-forget-it” proposition, developed under a set of conditions that, when drastically altered, became less effective. Comparably, unless it runs into ice weather or impediments, cruise control in cars does an excellent job of […]

Age of crypto structured products

crypto, structured, products

Structured products have always ruled the roost for the conventional clientele of wealth management. Mainly the mighty equity autocallable has long been a favorite among investors as it provides them with upside exposure to specific stocks or baskets along with a cushion of downside protection. But over the last year, the cryptocurrency sector has been […]

The 10 most popular “green” programming languages

programming language, green

Computer programmers used to believe that a speedier programme would also be more energy efficient. The concept was applied to computer programming languages; according to the logic, a quicker language must be greener. All of that changed in 2017, owing to a team of researchers from Portugal who developed the Computer Language Benchmarks Game (CLBG), […]

Raging market selloff: $36 trillion and counting

markets, value

Whether it was extremely secure US Treasuries or the riskiest developing markets, global stocks and bonds have lost a record $36 trillion in value over the past nine months in a chaotic selloff that affected assets across the risk spectrum. There is probably yet more suffering to come as the year enters its final months. […]