Rostin Behnam

Mar
28

Exchange Invest 2621: Makepeace Reforms The Band

It’s a FTSE deja vu for Mark Makepeace, albeit in a format better suited to the digital age than the stodgy LSEG. FT and SGX are partnering with a new Wilshire Index business under the direction of “Mr FTSE” - a fantastic fruition to his first year with Wilshire.
9 min read
Mar
21

Exchange Invest 2615: Happy 160 Stockholm

Nowhere is this clearly than in this gem of drivel from the Brussels Bugle: Humbled 'Crypto Bros' Don Blazers For Boca Raton (FT) which almost but not quite, completely fails to encapsulate last week’s Boca FIA meeting.
8 min read
Mar
20

Exchange Invest 2614: B3 All In On Vermiculus

Lots happening today with the 10% Vermiculus stake sale to B3’s venture arm alongside EEX adding another modest asset to its expanding portfolio. Lots happening in China as LME get hit with a minor warrant issue in Nickel and much more...
13 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
Dec
29

Exchange Invest Festive Edition 2545: Regulation: FTX And All That Malarkey

Gary Gensler meanwhile did what he does best - divide opinion (execution which he also managed at CFTC appears to have escaped him as he crusaded with super-zeal to make the basis of the SEC an agency that can impact almost every angle of corporate life:
8 min read
Dec
17

174 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast December 17th, 2022

the European Union/ European Commission, as well as an exchange whose monopoly has long since atrophied, ASX and indeed their former best days (so long as they were passing through tens of millions from the ASX HQ) DAH (albeit anonymously).
11 min read
Dec
07

Exchange Invest 2526: ASX Board Checkmate?

Jeff Sprecher was at the Goldman Sachs exchange investor conference yesterday and spoke pure unadulterated common sense. Hopefully soon the blob will catch up and stop pandering to the faux exceptionalism of the crypto crowd.
9 min read
Dec
02

Exchange Invest 2522: A Glimpse of Sanity?

SBF is a total charlatan and who knows if he keeps cr…ing on as is his wont, even his politically backed former friends may yet move to disown him as the message to Main Street America...
15 min read
Dec
01

Exchange Invest 2521: ECB Says BTC Alamo?

efore SBF spoke at the conference we ought to surely rename NYT Dealcrook the ‘tin hatters’ were back out in force - you know the types, folk who make the Ye Presidential bid look hyper credible.
20 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
26

171 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast November 26th, 2022

in Abu Dhabi, Mubadala (the sovereign wealth fund of the emirate) have acquired a stake in aircarbon exchange.
12 min read
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
Nov
19

170 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast November 19th, 2022

The stock exchange was closed during the dark days of communism in 1948 and only reopened after the Berlin Wall fell and indeed, when president Ceaușescu had been executed.
10 min read
Nov
18

Exchange Invest 2510: Fundamentally Tarnished Exchange

After all the shenanigans surrounding the strictly Hindu vegetarian Chitra Ramkrishna and her NSE cabal, I think the one positive to be discerned from the SBF/FTX farago is further proof that indeed plant based diets can deliver a lot of energy.
24 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