James Fok

Sep
09

210 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast September 9th, 2023

Deals Done! TT Buys Abel Noser In A Super Speedy Completion Tradeweb Complete Their Purchase Of Australian Platform Yieldbroker ICE Closed The Purchase Of Black Knight Within Hours Of The FTC Confirming They Were Permitting The Deal At Last.
12 min read
Jun
10

197 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast June 10th, 2023

Adam Smith 300 - No, that's not a NASCAR race!, Xavier Rolet skewers London’s market problems, Binance D Day gives way to Coinbase getting sued too and TTF is back, baby! - as Bigworld meets the parish of bourses head on!
12 min read
May
27

Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets by James A. Fok

Fok is author of the book Financial Cold War and has written and spoken extensively about market structure issues and the intersection between geopolitics and international finance.
2 min read
Feb
09

Exchange Invest 2581: Euroclear’s Record Year

SBF did however have a setback with no relaxation of his bail contract provisions: U.S. Judge Rejects Bail Proposal For FTX Founder Bankman-Fried (Reuters)
8 min read
Jan
16

Exchange Invest 2560: LSE Young & Scrappy

…All of the above is a touch sobering methinks but then again new bull markets occur while the headlines are overwhelmingly pessimistic. In this case, at least half of the requirement is clearly being met.
10 min read
Dec
31

Exchange Invest Weekend Festive Edition 2547: Part II

PLY: It is sublime watching Britain’s blob blow the country up while blamestorming the virgin government of PM Truss.
8 min read
Nov
11

Exchange Invest 2504: Fashionistas Dump FTX

NB: Caroline Ellison (former Alameda co-CEO) is viral on Twitter “being comfortable with risk very important. We don’t use any stop losses. I think those aren’t a good risk management tool.”
16 min read
Nov
05

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2499: Rotten Money, Hot Commodities

Diverse tales: Money Is Rotting…from hairstylist to crypto millionaire trader, Twitter, Metaverse, Lithium, Li Qiang, Bitcoin Mining…
7 min read
Nov
03

James Fok On Financial Cold War

Fok is author of the book Financial Cold War and has written and spoken extensively about market structure issues and the intersection between geopolitics and international finance.
2 min read
Nov
03

Exchange Invest 2497: City Simpson Crisis

If an army marches on its stomach as various famous generals have been attributed as noting, then clearly financial workers survived on the fruits of the taverns.
8 min read
Oct
17

Exchange Invest 2482: Six In Play?

11 min read
Oct
08

Exchange Invest 2475 Weekend Edition: China Questions Free Markets

No magic money tree but the west isn’t listening as China Questions free markets. Contrasting Bankers/Techno, Ukraine/Language, HK/Malaga…
5 min read
May
21

Exchange Invest 2356: May 21, 2022

Without drastic changes to the underpinnings of their financial and economic systems, not only may the Asian Century never materialise, but underlying imbalances could also precipitate social and economic turmoil.
4 min read
Jul
06

Exchange Invest 2093: London Death Exaggerated Again

In a move for the generations, stock trading went to Amsterdam but it seems they booked a cheap return option...
4 min read
Jan
07

Exchange Invest 1652: Parish Progress in Politics & More

Issue 1652 of Exchange Invest coincides with the year of the first Anglo Dutch war while far from the English Channel
5 min read