SBF

Sep
16

211 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast September 16th, 2023

This week in the parish of bourses and market structure: Competition In Australia, Sebi To T+0, ICE Makes Mortgages Work, Is Gary Gensler - Finance’s Kardashian?, And Elizabeth Sam Dies.
12 min read
Sep
02

209 Exchange Invest Weekly Podcast September 2nd, 2023

This week in the parish of bourses and market structure: It's A Big Week For Takeovers: ICE Black Knight Gets The Okay From The US FTC, While European Authorities Green Light The DB1 Purchase Of SimCorp
10 min read
Aug
16

Exchange Invest 2737: Sam Needs His Meds

Having lost his bail privileges entirely as a result of his own actions, SBF has turned to pleading for his medicines.
11 min read
Mar
29

Exchange Invest 2622: SBF’s Chinese Bribes?

SBF gets new bail terms but is indicted for a $40 million backhander to China. Binance is under duress but as unrepentant as ever.
13 min read
Mar
24

Exchange Invest 2618: COIN Problems

Coinbase is in the eyes of a storm - one part is easy to work out, the other part awaits clarification from the SEC.
9 min read
Mar
23

Exchange Invest 2617: MEMX Options Round

SEC seeks to reduce its preponderance of paper as it crawls a little closer to the digital age while LME Nickel contracts are in dire need of modernisation according to a broad range of commodity companies as battery demand reshapes the market.
12 min read
Mar
22

Exchange Invest 2616: Swiss Imbalance

If you don’t know UBS acquired Credit Suisse last weekend (faster than the CS PR dept could say “merger of equals, oh wait a moment…”) then I envy your clearly commodious sub rock abode.
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
17

Exchange Invest 2612: FTX GUBU Loans

“SBF is arguing that he is entitled to $5 million Directors and Officers Insurance from FTX.”
6 min read
Mar
15

Exchange Invest 2610: Chinese IDB Data Cut

Meanwhile clearly unwinding FTX is #ItsComplicated would be a massive understatement where the realpolitik is developing that the exchange assets could prove to be unwelcome even in the bargain bins at the local thrift store.
9 min read
Mar
14

Exchange Invest 2609: Gazza Preps The Battlefield

HSBC bought SVB UK for the typical nominal pound. In the US… nada. Well, there was the usual round of lawsuits - God bless America - of course… and the GOP blamed the Dems who blamed Trump as I mentioned yesterday.
8 min read
Mar
13

Exchange Invest 2608: S-Bank Hell

Moscow profits jump as the market battles to escape the ravages of Putin’s Ukrainian invasion while over in crypto, it’s another day of Bitcarnage leading to a stressful weekend for many.
11 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
Mar
09

Exchange Invest 2605: $7.2mln For Eris

How ironic, it took the crypto kiddies years to get a bank onside and then they all rushed for the exits when their very own crypto bank was threatened - distributed pragmatism or distributed cowardice?
8 min read
Mar
08

Exchange Invest 2604: ICE Black Knight Alter Deal

SBF is guilt free as we know so therefore intermediation is a dirty word when it comes to liquidators (but curiously acceptable when it comes to crypto exchanges who charge percentage fees that would make CME / ICE et al blush-
12 min read