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What is FINRA 4210, and how does it impact Hedge Funds? FINRA’s Rule 4210 can be a complex and challenging regulation to navigate, with the implications of this rule extending across several dimensions, including eligibility for different margin accounts, financing arrangements, equity levels, and day-to-day management of margin calls. In

Exchanges can trace their origins back to the Middle Ages. Since then, however, technology has transformed the global capital markets, and the speed of trading has accelerated with the adoption of computers to trade, mostly over the last 50 years. Today, quotes and trades travel over microwaves, lasers and optic fibers – often at close

The market infrastructure community has been debating the topic of time for the last few years. How late should our markets be open? How fast should settlement be? We’ve moved on (a little) from trading latency to the concept of perpetual markets, but before we head down that route we

A “crypto year” is often said to pack one year of innovation into a time span that would normally take seven. Like dog years. That said, institutions don’t move in crypto years when adopting innovation. They test and slowly build behind the scenes and those projects are starting to bloom

TabbFORUM will honor its selection of the 40 leading innovative organizations across the financial industry and capital markets on April 30 at a reception at the Tribeca Grill, New York, from 6 to 8 p.m. The TabbFORUM NOVAs acknowledge the financial industry’s ongoing commitment to technology-driven innovation — companies that