Albert Menkveld

May
11

Albert Menklev: Non Standard Errors In Markets

Albert’s research agenda is focused on securities trading, liquidity, asset pricing, and financial econometrics and has been widely published in leading financial journals.
1 min read
Mar
14

Exchange Invest 2609: Gazza Preps The Battlefield

HSBC bought SVB UK for the typical nominal pound. In the US… nada. Well, there was the usual round of lawsuits - God bless America - of course… and the GOP blamed the Dems who blamed Trump as I mentioned yesterday.
8 min read
Mar
13

Exchange Invest 2608: S-Bank Hell

Moscow profits jump as the market battles to escape the ravages of Putin’s Ukrainian invasion while over in crypto, it’s another day of Bitcarnage leading to a stressful weekend for many.
11 min read
Mar
11

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2607: Post Peak Dollar?

...complaints were muted somewhat by the liquidators announcing they had discerned a shortfall in FTX customer accounts vastly higher than media expectations, at $8.9 billion.
6 min read
Mar
11

184 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast March 11th, 2023

Have ICE Black Knight got ahead of FTC? Is the Refinitiv deal working?FTX has an $8.9 billion shortfall and NYSE posits a broad coalition for reform.
11 min read
Mar
10

Exchange Invest 2606: FTC Still Says No

…Then again it’s spot on when asked of Chairman Behnam who has been discredited by his frat boy cheerleading for SBF / FTX while ‘regulating’ FTX.US all the way to a $116 million client shortfall under his watch.
10 min read
Mar
09

Exchange Invest 2605: $7.2mln For Eris

How ironic, it took the crypto kiddies years to get a bank onside and then they all rushed for the exits when their very own crypto bank was threatened - distributed pragmatism or distributed cowardice?
8 min read
Mar
08

Exchange Invest 2604: ICE Black Knight Alter Deal

SBF is guilt free as we know so therefore intermediation is a dirty word when it comes to liquidators (but curiously acceptable when it comes to crypto exchanges who charge percentage fees that would make CME / ICE et al blush-
12 min read
Mar
07

Exchange Invest 2603: NYSE Posits Reform

At just what point does SBF actually lose his freedom as a result of not merely using VPNs and generally breaking bail terms but also looking like a slam dunk for a long spell after a verdict which will - heaven forfend - pronounce him guilty?
11 min read
Mar
06

Exchange Invest 2602: $8.9 bln FTX Shortfall

So after the property exposés, the billion dollar loans, the PJs on demand, the Nassau executive car fleet, at least one incredible Daiquiri bill and of course a serious operation aimed at buying the US government…
14 min read
Mar
04

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2601: Who Destroyed Nord Stream?

- 4 more charges for SBF as his head of engineering bids for some element of clemency and pleads guilty to being CC-1
6 min read
Mar
03

Exchange Invest 2600: Refinitiv Deal Working?

The question today is not so much how aligned Coinbase may be but rather is there going to be an attempt to take down Binance given it continues to attract the ‘FUD-4!’ folk amongst even the US political establishment?
13 min read
Mar
02

Exchange Invest 2599: FTC Blocking ICE Black Knight

Coinbase campaign reminds me of the magnificent moment in “Yes Minister” when Cabinet Minister Jim Hacker is informed the PM may close his Ministry for Administrative Affairs.
11 min read
Mar
01

Exchange Invest 2598: CC-1 Charged

Euronext has an interesting MTF punt via MTS in IRS while the group’s tentative bid for AllFunds has already been withdrawn…
10 min read