Cum-Ex

Feb
20

Exchange Invest 2590: Coinbase Concerns

No, AirBnB didn’t make it to profit thanks to “clearing fees” they achieved a move into the black thanks to “CLEANING fees”...
7 min read
Dec
15

Exchange Invest 2533: SBF’s Brazen Brazillian?

Inmate 14372 is perilously likely to spend Christmas and New Year in the Bahamas’ rather less than 5 star condo penthouse class formerly branded as “His Majesty's Prison Fox Hill.”
20 min read
Dec
09

Exchange Invest 2528: DAH Bites ASX

SBF has a thing for tall women. That strikes me as sexist - after all he sponsored the Miami Heat stadium so he clearly has a thing for all tall people).
13 min read
Nov
29

Exchange Invest 2519: Bye Bye Blockfi

…And onwards to our fascinating conspiracy of the day as the crypto kiddies get wildly vexed that El Tel has been bribing the CFTC.
15 min read
Nov
17

Exchange Invest 2509: CHESS Check Mate?

Finally, we get a headline which is not Bitcarnage related, although it is carnage down under as ASX finally blinks in the face of a project which has been such a disaster even many FTX fanboys might have spotted the train wreck.
10 min read
Oct
19

Exchange Invest 2484: IBKR On Fire

HKEX 2022 Q3 Results; Interactive Brokers Group 2022 Q3 Results
9 min read
Oct
18

Exchange Invest 2483: Binance Worries

Yet more Reuters revelations around the incredibly opaque Binance.
6 min read
May
19

Exchange Invest 2354: May 19, 2022

Having to date produced a lot of hype but little in results, it would be tough to justify an SEC budget hike but given the broad-based ineptitude of the “adult” Brezhnev regime with its chronic addiction to spending…
7 min read
May
13

Exchange Invest 2049: TP ICAP Disappoints

It’s business as usual over at the failing TP ICAP which has a crazy plan but no clear strategy, an incoherent management and increasing black hole masquerading as accounting where the numbers just don’t add up.
8 min read
May
10

Exchange Invest 2046: Xav-SPAC A Go Go

Xavier Rolet brings a veritable dream team to the SPAC world with an eye on fintech and / or perhaps the parish… What will $300 million buy you today?
8 min read
May
07

Exchange Invest 2044: Euronext Issues BI Bonds

PLY: Is it a pit problem or a pure play CME problem? Certainly, the issue IMHO does not strike me as being open outcry related but rather there ought to be a serious open outcry about how CME are not remotely capturing the upside in a mega bull phase for all commodities!
11 min read
May
01

Exchange Invest 2039: Weekend Edition W/ Podcast

PLY: Latest Opinion piece by PLY, this time in UAE newspaper The National, all about the rise and rise of Murban futures thanks to the incredible rise of the 504 day project which delivered IFAD - ICE Futures Abu Dhabi and is now demonstrating volume...
6 min read
Feb
26

Exchange Invest 1986: NSE’s trading glitch

IHS Markit in the prelim stage for a class action suit on valuation over its (certainly not aggressive) sale valuation to S&P Global?
11 min read
Feb
24

Exchange Invest 1984: EU Threatens Banks?

EU sabre rattling over Clearing: threatens banks. HKEX 3rd successive record results. Thomson Reuters sell Refinitiv, results are still stodgy.
8 min read
Feb
19

Exchange Invest 1980: Istanbul Profits Surge on IPO Boom

Busy Friday and time to admire the weird way the USA rolls… Perseverance lander on mars is a fabulous NASA achievement but Texas without electricity is a tad worrying...
8 min read