Blythe Masters

Nov
25

Exchange Invest 2516: Tadawul Buys Vendor

PLY: Single branch bank where deposits soared after Alameda bought it and was chaired by the man who co-created Inspector Gadget. #Everydaycrypto.
10 min read
Sep
18

112 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast September 18th, 2021

Banks win Libor case, SIX ADX has been approved, IBKR goes towards crypto with Paxos, and the New York Stock Exchange half greenlit a new green segment.
10 min read
Sep
14

Exchange Invest 2153: IBKR Goes Crypto

IBKR is likely to provoke excitement by linking to Paxos for crypto trading...
5 min read
May
05

Exchange Invest 2042: CME Closes More Pits

PLY: Almost but not quite a full scale farewell to the floor. CME deserves plaudits digging into electronic trading history as the only legacy exchange to ever organise coherent efforts to help floor traders make the transition, almost 20 years ago now.
7 min read
Apr
06

Exchange Invest 2017: Shanghai Boss Arrested

News that the Shanghai Clearing House boss has been arrested is an interesting angle to the ongoing corruption crackdown in China. Will he meet the same fate as the banker Lai Xiaomin who was executed earlier this year?
9 min read
Mar
20

Exchange Invest 1715: Adena Leads the Parish Again

Issue 1715 of Exchange Invest coincides with the year King Louis XIV of France died after a reign of 72 years, leaving his throne to his great-grandson Louis XV, who went on to reign for 58 years.
6 min read
Jun
10

Exchange Invest 1497: June 10, 2019

CBOE chicanery, Euronext has total control of Oslo, EU investigating BME & Nasdaq on data pricing...
4 min read
Apr
12

Exchange Invest 1459: April 12, 2019

The POMSox takeover announced before Christmas is go.
6 min read
Feb
22

Exchange Invest 1424: February 22, 2019

IEX launch TV ads trolling US legacy bourses. Jignesh Shah in angry interview.
4 min read
Jun
29

Exchange Invest 1267: June 29, 2018

Issue 1267 celebrates the birth of aviator and author Antoine De Saint-Exupery today in 1900.
3 min read
Apr
27

Exchange Invest 1224: April 27, 2018

Exchange Invest Daily Edition 1224 opens commemorating the year where the siege of La Rochelle ended the campaign between the Capetians and the Plantagenets for control of Poitou
5 min read
Dec
07

Exchange Invest 1140: December 7, 2017

ASX finally confirms Digital Asset will build its replacement for Chess. Joachim Faber asking if he should stay as DB1 chairman apparently prompts some investors to consider nailing him into his career coffin in a deft piece of STP.
3 min read
Dec
05

Exchange Invest 1138: December 5, 2017

Tadawul buys NASDAQ tech, TCI apparently produces 20 year old ‘news’ to justify sudden upheaval at LSE. FTIL forced to buy NSEL moves a step closer as HK-Shenzhen link celebrates first anniversary.
6 min read
Jan
24

Digital Asset Holdings - A Slight Over Distribution?

This is a remarkable roster of interests, specialist in finance but nonetheless diverse and all approaching the situation from a different angle.
2 min read
Jan
18

Exchange Invest 668: January 18, 2016

Blythe Masters Blockchain startup opens London presence just as the original Blockchain appears to be rather riven with festering settlement disputes.
6 min read