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LMAX Group

LMAX Group is a global financial technology company that operates multiple institutional execution venues for FX and cryptocurrency trading. It has offices in 9 countries and a global client base, including matching engines in London, New York and Tokyo. The LMAX Group portfolio includes LMAX Exchange, LMAX Global and LMAX Digital.
LMAX Exchange is an FCA-regulated multilateral trading facility (MTF) for FX, metals, indices and commodities. LMAX Exchange offers clients the ability to trade on a central limit order book with streaming firm limit order liquidity from top tier global banks and non-banks.
== History ==
In 2021, the U.S. private equity investor JC Flowers acquired a 30% stake in LMAX Group. The $300 million minority investment valued the FX and crypto trading venue operator at $1 billion at the time.
In October 2023, LMAX acquired the FX-focused execution services and data analytics provider Cürex.
In the fall of 2024, LMAX Group acquired FX HedgePool, seeking to expand its FX offering. Together the firms plan to offer expertise in the FX swaps and forwards market as well as in the spot FX and non-FX asset classes.
== Products and Services ==
LMAX Exchange operates multiple institutional execution venues for FX trading and cryptocurrencies.
LMAX Global is a leading regulated broker for FX, metals and commodities worldwide. 
LMAX Digital is an institutional spot cryptocurrency exchange.
In March 2022, LMAX Group partnered with SIX to launch centrally cleared crypto-asset futures, which they expect to go live in Q3 2022, subject to regulatory approval. The launch will initially include centrally cleared USD settled Bitcoin and Ethereum futures. Trading will occur 23 hours, five days a week, with plans for the full product roll out to be extended to 24/7 trading.
LMAX Group offers trading in BTC (Bitcoin), ETH (Ethereum), LTC (Litecoin), BCH (Bitcoin Cash), XRP (XRP) – against USD, EUR, JPY, GBP; and SOL (Solana), LINK (Chainlink), PYTH (Pyth Network) – against USD.
== Key People ==
*David Mercer, Chief Executive
*Patrick Bartle, Managing Director for Americas 
*Sean Cleary, Head of Liquidity Management and Analytics for Americas
== References ==
LME Clear

LME Clear is the London Metal Exchange’s self-clearing program, which launched on September 22, 2014. The clearing house clears all trades on the LME and those matched on the over-the-counter matching service. 
In August 2014 LME Clear was approved by the Bank of England to operate under the UK's Financial Markets and Insolvency Regulation, a crucial approval for the LME. The approval relates to LME Clear's secure payment system and ensures that all payments made through the system are deemed final, thereby protecting LME Clear clients. 
On September 3, 2014, LME Clear was approved by the Bank of England to operate under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), the final regulatory authorization it needed in order to launch as a clearing house. As an authorized clearing house it will be a qualifying central counterparty (QCCP) under Basel III/CRD IV. Financial firms clearing with a QCCP are subject to significantly lower capital requirements compared to a non-QCCP. 
LME Clear selected Cinnober as its core technology provider in July of 2012. 
== History ==
In December 2011, following an extensive feasibility study, the LME announced that they had decided to pursue self clearing. The exchange said self-clearing would give it greater flexibility in business expansion, improve development options and be accretive to earnings. LME also noted the erosion of the horizontal clearing model.
On June 5, 2013, The London Metal Exchange and LCH.Clearnet agreed to end their clearing relationship and move the LME contracts currently cleared by LCH.Clearnet to LME Clear on Sept. 22, 2014.
The London Metal Exchange (LME) said it expects LMEClear will charge members fees similar to those charged by LCH.Clearnet, which tripled its charges for clearing LME trades on June 1.
== Products and Services ==
The LME signed an agreement with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) and Bank of China on June 24, 2013 that would enable clearing of metals contracts in renminbi through LME Clear.
In November of 2015, LME Clear announced the launch of 34 new stock futures contracts, some of which began trading on November 30, 2015 and the rest scheduled to begin trading on December 7. The contracts cover the 34 most actively-traded stocks in Southbound trading under Stock Connect, which together account for about 60 percent of Southbound trading turnover. The addition will also bring the total number of stock futures contracts traded in Hong Kong to 71.
== Key People ==
*Michael Carty, Chief Executive
*Chris Jones, Chief Operating Officer
*Matt Wade, Chief Risk Officer 
*Paul Kirkwood, Head of Clearing Risk.
== References ==
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
LME LMEmini

The London Metal Exchange offers mini futures contracts and options on some of its products. The mini contracts share the same commodity as their larger parent contracts, but trade a lesser commodity quantity to appeal to smaller commercial and speculative interests.
Started in December of 2006, LMEmini contracts are available for the following markets:
*Copper Grade A
*Primary Aluminium
*Special High Grade Zinc
== References ==
LME LMEMini Contract Specifications
Category:LME
LODAS Markets

LODAS Markets is a marketplace for investors to trade non-traded REITs, BDCs, and other private real estate investments similar to how you would a company's stock. It was founded in 2020 by Brian King and Jeffrey Kinney. According to the company, it is the only fully automated online marketplace matching buyers and sellers of non-traded REITs and other alternatives. 
== History ==
The company launched in 2021 as Realto, Inc., with LODAS standing for Liquidity On Demand As a Service.
== Products and Services ==
LODAS Markets operates a fully automated online marketplace that matches buyers and sellers of typically illiquid securities. The platform aims to provide liquidity for investors in alternative investments by allowing them to trade these assets similarly to public stocks.
The company offers trading services for various alternative investments, including:
* Non-traded REITs
* Business Development Companies (BDCs)
* Private real estate investments
LODAS Markets is notable for being the exclusive marketplace for trading shares of major non-listed REITs such as Blackstone's BREIT and Starwood's SREIT.
=== Market Data ===
In 2024, LODAS Markets expanded its market data offering, providing detailed information on select alternative investments. The company uses proprietary AI tools to parse information from SEC filings and other sources, presenting key metrics and historical data for investors and financial advisors.
=== Transfer Agent Business ===
LODAS Markets launched a transfer agent business to support investors throughout the alternative investing lifecycle. This service aims to streamline processes from client onboarding through secondary sales on the LODAS platform.
=== Trading Volume ===
In the first half of 2024, LODAS Markets reported a 73% increase in trading transactions compared to the previous year. The company also claimed to be the largest U.S. Alternative Trading System (ATS) focused on alternative investments in the first quarter of 2024.
== Regulation ==
LODAS Securities LLC, a subsidiary of LODAS Markets, Inc., is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is a member of FINRA/SIPC.
== Key People ==
File:Brian King.jpg|Brian King, Co-Founder and CEO
File:JeffreyKinney.jpeg|Jeffrey Kinney, Co-Founder
== References ==
Category:Companies
Category:Financial Services Companies
Category:Alternative Investments
Category:Real Estate Investment Trusts
Category:Electronic Trading Platforms
LSOC

LSOC, or "legally separated; operationally commingled" is the model by which customer collateral is segregated from the property of a futures commission merchant for cleared swaps transactions. In other words, under LSOC, client funds are removed from the default management waterfall.
The basic goal of LSOC is to make sure no cleared over-the-counter (OTC) customer account is put at risk from a failure of another customer. By contrast, in the typical futures segregation model, if a broker were to suffer a loss well in excess of its available capital, pooled funds held customer segregation would be at risk.
On January 11, 2012, the CFTC approved its final rule on the protection of cleared swaps customer contracts and collateral. Under the final rule, cleared swaps customer collateral will be segregated from the FCM’s own property, but cleared swaps collateral of all FCM cleared swaps customers will be permitted to be kept together pre-bankruptcy in one account. The compliance date for LSOC was originally set at November 8, 2012. On November 1, 2012, the CFTC Division of Clearing and Risk issue a no-action letter to delay the compliance date until November 13, 2012. The delay was to allow FCMs additional time to focus on business continuity and disaster recovery after a hurricane swept the U.S. East Coast in late October.
For more information, visit the page on the final LSOC rule.
== References ==
LSV Asset Management

LSV Asset Management is a Chicago-based money management firm. LSV was established in 1994 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with a regional office in Norwalk, Connecticut.
The firm specializes in value equity management for institutional investors around the world. LSV managed approximately $66 billion in value equity portfolios for approximately 420 clients as of March 31, 2008. 
Its founders, Josef Lakonishok (William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Andrei Shleifer (Economics Professor at Harvard University); and Robert Vishny (Former Eric J. Gleacher Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago) are well known for their work in behavioral finance. 
In 2007, LSV was named one of Chicago's largest money managers by Crain's Chicago Business.
== Contact Info ==
LSV Asset Management
1 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 4000
(312) 460-2443
www.lsvasset.com
== References ==
Category:Chicago Money Managers
Category:Asset Managers
Category:University of Chicago
LXDX

LXDX, a cryptocurrency trading platform, tweeted on October 12, 2019, "LXDX is halting trading effective Oct 31. Huge thanks to all of our supporters! We'll see you when we relaunch soon!"
LXDX supported both spot and warrant trading. Warrants are uncleared options contracts.
When LXDX received new funding in August 2018 from Dymon Asia Capital Fund, an institutional invest fund based in Singapore, Joshua Greenwald, LXDX's CEO, said that the funds would be used to expand the then institution-focused platform to new markets. In September 2018 Greenwald announced that LXDX would open an institutional-grade market to trading by the public. 
After opening the exchange in November 2018 for online on-boarding of customers, the new LXDX platform for spot trading by retail and institutional customers went live on December 19, 2018. 
== References ==
Category:Cryptocurrency
Category:Spot Trading
Category:Institutional
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki
LaBranche & Co.

LaBranche & Co Inc. (LaBranche) is the parent of LaBranche & Co. LLC, one of the largest specialists in equity securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and American Stock Exchange. 
The company announced in December 2007 that it would continue a "strategic review" launched in July 2007, but focus on its "current business activities." Van der Moolen, a rival specialist, sold its North American business to Lehman Brothers in 2007 amidst declining volumes caused by the expansion of electronic trading and alternative trading venues.
LaBranche is also the parent of LaBranche Structured Holdings, Inc., whose subsidiaries are specialists and market makers in options, ETFs and futures on various exchanges domestically and internationally. Specialists and market makers are liquidity providers, bringing capital and critical expertise to securities markets. 
Another subsidiary of LaBranche, LaBranche Financial Services, Inc., provides securities execution, clearing and direct-access floor brokerage services to institutional investors. 
== References ==
LabCFTC

LabCFTC was created by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to promote responsible financial technology (FinTech) innovation and fair competition. It was designed to make the CFTC more accessible to FinTech innovators, and serves as a platform to inform the commission's understanding of new technologies. It is also an information source for the commission and the CFTC staff on innovation that may influence policy development.
Its mission is to aid innovation, inform policy, and ensure the commission has the technological and regulatory tools and understanding to keep pace with the rapid changes to the commodity markets. 
LabCFTC was launched out of the CFTC's Office of General Counsel.
In October 2019, the CFTC's chairman Heath Tarbert announced that LabCFTC would expand, becoming its own, independent office within the CFTC. Part of this initiative was to give LabCFTC the tools to focus on both internal and external innovation - keeping CFTC employees up to date on new technology, as well as creating tools to fight market manipulation and other illegal activity. 
== References ==
Lacy Quinlan

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Lacy Quinlan is a senior corporate communications specialist at CME Group. In this role, she is part of the CME Group team handling media relations, social media, marketing, event management and internal communications. 
== Background ==
A 2009 graduate of Central Michigan University, Quinlan served as president of PR Central, a non-profit student-run public relations firm. She also served on the executive board of the Public Relations Student Society of America from 2006 to 2009.
Quinlan worked as an advertising manager for Central Michigan Life Newspaper, the student newspaper at Central Michigan University. She also completed a marketing and public relations internship with Meadow Brook Hall and Garden, a historic house museum. 
== Education ==
Quinlan earned a BAA in integrative public relations and media design, production and technology from Central Michigan University.
== References ==	{News}}
Category:CME Group
Category:Public Relations Professionals
Category:Corporate Communications Professionals
Lael Brainard

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Lael Brainard is an American economist who has been a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2014. On November 22, 2021 the White House said President Biden would nominate her as vice chair of the central bank’s board of governors.
She was the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in the administration of President Barack Obama.
 
Brainard is the author of articles on the effects of offshore production on domestic manufacturing employment, multinational production and its relationship to trade, strategic trade policy, the debate over structural vs. cyclical unemployment, declining industries, and small business lending in Africa.
As one of seven Federal Reserve governors, Brainard has often been the outlier, objecting to otherwise unanimous motions at the board to lighten financial regulations. Until her first objection in 2018, no governor had dissented since 2011. She has also pressed the case for a digital dollar and is seen as favoring financial innovation such as cryptocurrency.
She is currently the only Democrat on the Fed's board.
== Background ==
Before becoming U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury, Brainard was vice president and founding director of the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, where she held the Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in International Economics and directed the Brookings Initiative on Competitiveness.
Previously, Brainard was an associate professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. Brainard also worked at McKinsey & Co. and separately on microfinance in West Africa.
== Education ==
Brainard received master's and doctoral degrees in Economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She graduated with highest honors from Wesleyan University. She is also the recipient of a White House Fellowship and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship.
== References ==
Category:U.S. Treasury Department
Category:Bios - Executives
Laine Litman

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Laine Litman is the president of Hidden Road, a global credit network for institutions, offering technology-driven prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets.
== Background ==
Prior to her current position, Litman held key roles at Virtu Financial, where she served as the head of fixed income & foreign exchange (FI & FX) and co-head of crypto. During her tenure at Virtu Financial from May 2014 to February 2022, she managed areas including rates, credit, FX, metals, crypto, futures, ETFs, and clearing.
Before joining Virtu Financial, Litman served as the head acknowledge fixed income: FI liquidity strategy and sales at KCG Holdings, Inc., where she focused on providing treasury liquidity needs bilaterally. She also gained experience in global futures trading and sales at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
Litman began her career in the financial industry at UBS Investment Bank, where she worked in futures sales-trading for over four years.
== Education ==
Litman holds a Bachelor of Science in economics with a concentrations in finance and marketing and a minor in classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
== References ==	
Category:Goldman Sachs - Former Employees
Category:UBS - Former Employees
Category:Bank of America - Former Employees
Category:Virtu - Former Employees
Category:KCG Holdings, Inc. - Former Employees
Lakes Trading Company, Inc.

Lakes Trading Company is a full-service introducing broker clearing all trades through Iowa Grain Company. Bob Pirie is the president and founder of Lakes Trading. 
== History ==
In 1985, Lakes Trading President Bob Pirie moved to Fairmont where he managed Jameson-Williams Commodity Brokerage. In 1990 he bought Jameson-Williams and founded Lakes Trading. Lakes works primarily with agricultural producers in the risk management of grains and livestock. Lakes Trading has branch offices in Britton, South Dakota; Monona, Iowa; and Mobile, Alabama.
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
*Bob Pirie
== Registration Information ==
== References ==
Category:Introducing Brokers
Category:Futures Brokers
Lamberto Cardia

Lamberto Cardia is the chairman of the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB), a position he has held since 2003. Cardia serves as the CONSOB representative on the Committee of European Securities Regulators.
== Background ==
Cardia became a magistrate in 1971. He has served in a number of government roles, including, among others, head of cabinet at the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment, chief of cabinet of the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning and Undersecretary of State to the President of the Senate. Cardia has taught State and Public Organizations Accounting as a member of the faculties of Economics & Commerce and Law at LUISS.
== Education ==
Cardia is a graduate of Law.
== Honors and Affiliation ==
In 1987, Cardia received the Knight Grand Cross Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He also has served as president of the Bordoni Foundation, which conducts research in the fields of telecommunications and information technology. 
== References ==
Category:Regulators
Category:Italy
Lamon Rutten

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Lamon Rutten is a veteran international exchange exchange executive who currently is an advisory board member to the Ajlan & Bros Mining & Metals Industries Group. Previously, he was the CEO of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mining & Metals Exchange, an exchange that was never launched. 
Also, Rutten has served as the CEO of Indonesia Commodity & Derivatives Exchange (ICDX). He was appointed to the post in 2017 and stepped down in 2022. 
Before joining ICDX, he served as manager, policies, markets and ICTs at Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA).
Previously, he was managing director and CEO of the Multi Commodity Exchange of India or MCX. Rutten was named to the position in June 2009, replacing Joseph Massey, who became the chief executive officer and managing director of the MCX Stock Exchange. Rutten had been working as the joint managing director.
== Background ==
Before joining MCX in 2006 as a director, he had worked for UNCTAD since 1990, where he served as chief of finance, risk management and information in the commodities branch of the UNCTAD in Geneva and worked on grain trade and collateralized grain finance in Mali. 
He also was a member of the World Bank's International Task Force for Commodity Risk Management from January 2002 to April 2002.
== Education ==
Rutten holds a M.A. degree, with honors, in International Economic Management from Tilburg University, The Netherlands
== References ==	
Category:Multi Commodity Exchange of India
Category:SFOA - Board Member
Lance Uggla

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Lance Uggla co-founded Markit in 2001 and is chief executive officer. 
== Background ==
Before launching Markit, Uggla spent nine years at CIBC World Markets where he was most recently Head of Global Fixed Income. He joined TD Securities in 1995 where he was the vice chair and head of the company's European and Asian divisions. He was responsible for building all offshore debt capital markets activities and investment grade credit trading portfolios.
== Education ==
Uggla graduated with a BBA in Business Administration from Simon Fraser University. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1986 with an MSc in Accounting and Finance. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Markit
Category:Markit