Max Ganado

May
11

Exchange Invest 2047: Regulators Nervy About Libor

Ashley Alder Zoooming a spot of indignation with a shot across the ISDA bows about the Archegos shenanigans where it looks as if multiple broker dealers got hypothecated into losses thanks to a spot of excess leverage delivery to the somewhat cavalier concept of “management” at that fund.
7 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
08

Exchange Invest 2045: Weekend Edition W/ Podcast

ICE have taken their leave of Coonbase with a stunning return well beyond the pixels of Exchange Invest, PLY has been celebrating the first month of Murban...
6 min read
May
08

093 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast May 8th, 2021

ICE has taken their leave of Coinbase with a stunning return well beyond the pixels of Exchange Invest, PLY has been celebrating the first month of Murban in The National while the EU Open Access proposal is dying as Brexit Britain takes the initiative, meanwhile, CME closes all but one pit.
14 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
06

Exchange Invest 2043: Open Access Finally Dies

It was never clear how the inevitable would occur (that was “the inevitable” if you were listening to PLY and a few select others for the past decade and more) but the impractical “open access” rules died in the UK yesterday. The EU will hesitate to follow suit..
10 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
May
05

Max Ganado: Innovating Financial Law Through Blockchain

Max Ganado is a semi-mythical figure in Maltese law: his widespread description as a ‘visionary’ hardly does him justice!
1 min read
May
04

Exchange Invest 2041: Vaccine = NYSE Floor Reopening

Dark pools, Divorce, dematerialisation, derivatives, deals and much else besides, it’s a kind of D-Day in Sesame, er, the parish...
7 min read
May
03

Exchange Invest 2040: CBOE beats estimates

Diversity, pomposity all the way to velocity and more in today’s Exchange Invest, it deserves a full scroll...
12 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