SVB

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
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
18

Exchange Invest Weekend Edition 2613: Leaks From Labs to Pipelines

Crypto security issuers should file registration statements and make the required disclosures. These are the same rules that everyone else in the securities markets has played by for decades.
6 min read
Mar
16

Exchange Invest 2611: Yadda Yadda

Clearly, FTX going bust was a real shock to Walt Inc as they had sponsored Expo but for those reading Exchange Invest, therein one can justify a subscription methinks.
7 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