Opinions

Under Chairman Chris Giancarlo, the CFTC has been great when it comes to transparency and communication. In November, the agency published its first annual report of enforcement actions, followed recently with a statement highlighting its 2019 priorities. Never before has the CFTC been as forthcoming with information; but what are

This is Part 2 of a five-part series. In this installment, Rick Roche shows where quant investing is on an “Adopter Categorization” scale and why investors have been reluctant and resistant to quant strategies. He reveals the birth and early years of quantitative investing and uses Everett Rogers’ classic diffusion

Just when it seemed like things had finally settled down with CAT, industry members woke up to a flurry of text messages, tweets and emails on Jan. 31, 2019, informing them that Thesys – the CAT processor selected by the operating committee – had been fired and the responsibility to

I use the term “outsider trading” not in the context of its traditional use but, rather, in the context of trading where the stimuli for such trading is found in material, non-public information that relates not directly to the company of the financial instruments traded/positioned but instead to another company,

Life after LIBOR. Fear Not. Remember: Market participants make their most important choices and biggest decisions when financial tools are no longer effective. Now is one of those times. The transition from LIBOR introduces unprecedented choice into fixed income markets. From a public policy perspective, the capital markets will benefit