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Location: London With over 20 years’ experience in technology, Lia leads the consultancy side of Threat Protect’s service offering where she brings detailed knowledge of IT technology and a strong network of connections. Lia’s IT career began with studying Mathematics and Computer Science at University in Australia, where her passion for IT led to working in multiple countries as a contractor. Lia has since operated as CIO for several multi-national corporations before co-founding Threat Protect alongside Jonil Patel. What was your first job? Growing up I had a lot of jobs. I was a sw...

Silver Investing: China Launches New Benchmark Just yesterday China launched Shanghai Silver Benchmark Price Trading. Now that’s a mouthful. The new benchmark price will have the symbol SHAG on the Shanghai exchange and will trade for two short time periods daily, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The trading unit will be 15kg per share of SHAG, but will doubtless be translated into the price per troy ounce for comparison to other world silver prices. What it means is that the Chinese silver market will have more input into the world price of silver. And, the world will get a be...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE,” since reorganized as a separate division of the SEC, i.e., the Division of Examinations [“DivEx”]) issued a Risk Alert entitled “Observations from Examinations of Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers: Large Trader Obligations.” My December 8, 2020, blog post, “Meeting Specified Standards: the SEC’s OCIE Assesses Compliance,” emphasizes the importance of compliance by regulated industry participant...

© Aaron Chown - WPA Pool/Getty Images As we struggle towards “deal” or “no deal”, today we consider the outlook for the once great currency that is the pound sterling. With no deal looking likely last week, and now this week being told a deal is possible, you can assume that all outcomes are priced in. The forex markets will have observed the negotiators’ every utterance, every nuance, every syllable of their body language. In other words, we shouldn’t get any surprises of the undesirable variety that so spooked markets as, for example, when the UK surprisingly voted “Leave” ...

Stocks, bonds, derivatives. he introduced a similar bill two years ago. not much pickup at the time. now congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortezed is a lead co sponsor of this bill along with a dozen others. they want to discourage high frequency trading. he wants to avoid another flash crash. he says the money from the tax could go to more worthy causes. for example, the joint committee on taxation estimates a financial transaction tax could could add $770 billion over ten years. if the exact form of the law would pass, investors would have to pay .01% per transaction if it goes through in th...