Nasdaq, Inc.
Nasdaq received SEC approval on April 10, 2026 to extend trading on its NMS stocks and exchange‑traded products to a 23‑hour window, five days a week. The move follows a December 2025 request to lengthen market hours and positions Nasdaq to capture more global liquidity. Nasdaq already powers over 90 marketplaces, handling roughly one‑in‑ten of worldwide securities transactions and supporting $12 trillion in listed market value. The extended schedule aims to align U.S. markets with overseas trading cycles and boost price discovery.
OKX
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent of the NYSE, invested in cryptocurrency exchange OKX in March 2026, valuing the platform at $25 billion. The deal grants ICE the right to license OKX’s spot crypto price data and to launch U.S.-regulated futures contracts...
JLN Options: Retail Investors Turn to ‘Options Income’ ETFs in Search for Yield
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has been substantially weakened over the past 16 months as prediction‑market and crypto interests with ties to the Trump family pressured the agency to relax oversight and enforcement. John Lothian News announced the upcoming launch...
Anthony Attia
Anthony Attia, currently Euronext’s global head of derivatives and post‑trade, has been appointed chief executive of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) effective September 1 2026, succeeding Helen Lofthouse. At Euronext he led the expansion of the clearing business post‑Brexit and chaired Euronext...
MEMX’s Kellner Sees Tech Clients – and Rivals – as Growth Engine for Options Push
MEMX CEO Kellner says the firm will tap technology companies and even rival exchanges as the primary engine for expanding its options business. The strategy arrives as the broader derivatives market eyes new product launches, including a compute futures market...
Selig the Joker: When the CFTC Chair Becomes the Punchline
Julie Bauer, former OCC official, was appointed senior vice president and head of government relations at Cboe Global Markets effective May 19, 2026. Meanwhile, CME Group and Silicon Data announced plans to launch the world’s first compute futures market later...
DraftKings Inc.
DraftKings announced the October 2025 acquisition of Railbird Technologies, a CFTC‑regulated designated contract market, marking its entry into federally sanctioned prediction‑market contracts. The move expands DraftKings Predictions to 38 states through a partnership with CME Group and diversifies its product suite...
Pico CEO Sees Global ‘Anywhere to Anywhere’ Trading Straining Market Plumbing
The FIA conference in Boca Raton highlighted a rapid shift toward on‑chain assets, AI‑ready market data, and 24/7 trading models. BMLL Technologies is promoting nanosecond‑level, full‑depth order‑book feeds to cut the costly data‑cleaning burden on quant teams. Marex is expanding...
Cboe, Home of the VIX, Boosts Its Corporate Brand and Sets to Launch Its First Prediction-Market Product
Cboe Global Markets, the exchange best known for the VIX volatility index, announced a comprehensive corporate brand refresh and the upcoming launch of its first prediction‑market product. The rebrand introduces a new logo, visual language, and a tagline emphasizing data‑driven...
Anthropic
Anthropic, a San Francisco‑based AI startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, has expanded its Claude large‑language model suite into enterprise and financial markets. The company announced a $50 billion multi‑year U.S. compute investment and, in 2026, secured an additional $25 billion from...
Tokenization Gains Traction as Crypto’s Role Splits in Global Markets
Marex Group posted record first‑quarter 2026 results, with revenue up 48% year‑on‑year to £692.3 million (about $860 million) and profit before tax rising 53% to £149.8 million (roughly $186 million). The firm is betting on tokenized futures, stable‑coin collateral and regulated prediction markets as...
Mysterious Trader Buys $56 Million in Oil Ahead of UAE Attack
John Lothian News is rolling out “Auditions,” a new JLN Topic Page that will serve as a showcase for market‑related entertainment content creators. The platform will host scripts, documentaries, books, and poems that blend finance themes with storytelling. Its inaugural...
Paul Atkins
Paul S. Atkins was sworn in as the 34th SEC chairman on April 21, 2025 after being nominated by President Donald Trump. A former SEC commissioner and CEO of Patomak Global Partners, he immediately rescinded 14 unfinished rules covering climate...
Trading Technologies’ Green Sees TT Shifting Into Multiasset ‘Economic User’ Platform
Coinbase is accelerating its transformation into an "everything exchange" by integrating Deribit and expanding its product suite. The platform now offers spot crypto, futures, perpetuals, options, and newly added prediction markets. Within the next month, Coinbase will launch equity perpetual...
Bitcoin Tops $74,900 as S&P 500 Hits Record, but Options Market Isn’t Buying the Peace Trade
Bitcoin surged to $74,900, up 0.7% in the past day, as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 posted record‑high closes amid reports of a tentative U.S.–Iran cease‑fire extension. Despite the equity rally, options traders remain cautious, holding back on bullish bets in...