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Warren W. Lebeck

Warren W. Lebeck was an exchange executive who served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade. He died in February 2008 at the age of 85. 
He came to the CBOT in the 1950s and was made president in 1973. He replaced Henry Hall Wilson, a former Kennedy and Johnson administration official who had become president in 1967. He is credited with hiring economist Richard Sandor at the CBOT.
He was a founding member of the board of the National Futures Association and later served as a public director after leaving the CBOT.} 
==Background==
Lebeck was a Chicago native, born on March 13, 1921. He served as served as a gunnery officer with the Pacific fleet in World War II.
Lebeck, a former Navy officer, joined the CBOT in 1954 as assistant to the secretary and became secretary in 1957. He was promoted to executive vice president in 1965 and ultimately to president in 1973. He served as a consultant to the CBOT from 1977 to 1979.
He became president of the CBOT at a pivotal time when the exchange was under criticism for the high price of foodstuffs. He was known for being a guardian of the CBOT's rules and for quoting them from memory.
He had also worked for Montgomery Ward before joining the CBOT.
As an advocate of this country's agricultural achievements, Lebeck served as a director of the National Grain Trade Council, the Agriculture Council of America and the U.S. Feed Grain Council. He was a member of the Industry Advisory Committee for the University of Illinois Ag-Industry Forum and a member of the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for the U.S. Trade Representative. 
As a member of the NFA Organizing Committee, Lebeck played a pivotal role in the organization's establishment and continued to serve in a leadership role as a director and member of the association's executive committee.
==Education==
Lebeck was a graduate of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
==References==	
Category:NFA Board of Directors - Former Members
Category:Former CBOT Officials
Warwick Capital Management Ltd.

Warwick Capital Management Ltd. is a Bermuda-based digital asset investment management firm founded in 2021. The company specializes in managing digital asset hedge funds and providing investors with opportunities to participate in the cryptocurrency and blockchain markets.
== History ==
Warwick Capital Management was formed out of Hehmeyer, LLC, a company with roots in traditional futures trading. The firm was officially launched in June 2021 as a Bermuda-based digital asset investment manager. This move represented a strategic pivot towards the growing cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors.
== Leadership ==
The company is closely affiliated with Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Sr., a veteran of the financial industry with over 40 years of experience. Hehmeyer serves as the chairman of the board at Warwick Capital Management. His extensive background in futures trading and leadership roles in various financial organizations has been instrumental in shaping the firm's approach to digital asset management.
Key leadership positions within the company include:
* Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Chairman
* Dan O'Shea, Chief Risk and Operations Manager
* Brian Tehako, Chief Investment Officer
== Contact and Location ==
Warwick Capital Management is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda. The company can be reached via email at [] or by phone at +1 (441) 261-4262.
== References ==
Category:Digital Assets
Category:Hehmeyer
Category:Investment Managers
Category:Bermuda-based Firms
Wash trade

A wash trade is a trade in which there is no real change in the ownership of the securities - the buyer is also the seller or is associated with the seller. It is done to give the appearance that purchases and sales have been made with no actual risk to the buyer or seller. Similar to a wash trade, a pre-arranged trade involves two parties making a trade that will be reversed later, or under an arrangement that removes the risk of ownership from the buyer. "Pooling" or "churning" can involve wash sales or pre-arranged trades executed in order to give an impression of active trading in the stock. The Commodity Exchange Act prohibits wash trading.
== References ==
Wataru Kojima

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Wataru Kojima is the president and representative director for Saxo Bank FX Securities based in Tokyo.
== Background ==
Prior to his role with Saxo Bank FX Securities, Kojima was representative director for Saxo Bank Japan from 2007 to 2009.
He was principal consultant and manager at ISID Europe from 1995 to 2003. Kojimia later became a director at Patsystems Japan until 2007.
== Education ==
Kojima earned a degree from University College London. He also attended Stanford University's School of Business.
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Saxo Bank
Category:Japan
Waves

Waves is the name for both the company (Waves Platform) and its blockchain as well as for the token associated with its operation (WAVES). In December 2018 WAVES was the 26th most actively traded cryptocurrency according to CoinMarketCap, an industry data aggregator. In late December 2020, WAVES was the 41st largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization according to CoinMarketCap.
Russian press reported in July 2017 that the Moscow Exchange's central depository was partnering with Waves Platform to design a blockchain for digital assets. The proposed platform would enable the depository to provide cryptocurrency support services. 
On September 13, 2018, a state-owned Russian conglomerate, Rostec, announced that it would use the Waves Platform to manage data from its 700-company holdings.
In December 2018 Waves announced that the Vostok project, which implements Waves in IT-systems, had received $120 million in funding to from both investors. 
After about two years of operation the company's decentralized exchange (DEX), Waves.DEX, was shut down in December 2019 by Waves. It had apparently transitioned into a hybrid DEX as its press release discussed transferring customer funds held at the DEX. (A necessary condition for being a true DEX is that the platform does not hold deposits of customer funds.) Waves provided for transferring customer deposits to its cryptocurrency trading platform, Waves.exchange.
== References ==
Category: digital assets
Category: decentralized applications
Category: distributed ledgers
Category: definitions
Category: cryptocurrency
Category: altcoins
Category: CryptoMarketsWiki
Wayne Luthringshausen

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Wayne P. Luthringshausen was an exchange and options clearing house executive who was the longtime chairman of the board and chief executive officer of OCC, the clearinghouse for U.S. stock options trading. He retired on December 31, 2013 after 40 years with the clearinghouse. He passed away in August 2021.
Former OCC president and COO Michael Cahill took over as CEO in January 2014. Former CME Group CEO Craig Donohue replaced Luthringshausen as OCC chairman.
In 2015, Luthringshausen was inducted into the Futures Industry Association's Futures Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 to commemorate outstanding contributions to the global futures and options community. 
== Background ==
Luthringshausen began his career in the securities and futures industry in 1963 with two regional firms in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1970, he joined the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) to assume an active role in the development of the first central marketplace for the trading of listed options contracts, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE).
In April 1973, when trading was launched at the CBOE, Luthringshausen was appointed executive vice president and secretary of the Chicago Board Options Exchange Clearing Corporation (CBOECC) and in August, 1973, was appointed president and chief executive officer. In January, 1975, the CBOECC became OCC with the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission. OCC currently performs the issuance, clearance, guarantee and settlement functions for all U.S. securities options exchanges and other entities.
== Affiliations ==
Other affiliations include the Ad Hoc Coalition for Intermarket Coordination, Risk Management Center, IIT/Stuart School of Business Advisory Board, the International Association of Options Exchanges and Clearing Houses, International Organization of Securities Commissions Consultative Committee, Saint Patrick High School Board of Trustees and Finance Committee, Chicago Area Boy Scout Dinner Executive Committee, and the Economic Club of Chicago.
In 2002, he received the first annual "Options Industry Appreciation Award" (later renamed the Joseph W. Sullivan Award) on behalf of the entire options industry.
== Education ==
Luthringshausen is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. In 1979, he completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
== References ==	
Category:Options Clearing Corporation
Category:Options Clearing Corporation
Category:Bios - Options Association
Category:Bios - Clearing Association
Category:Futures Hall of Fame Members
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:OCC - Board Members
Category:OCC
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category:Former CBOT Staff
Category:University of Chicago
Category:Deceased
Wayne Pestone

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Wayne Pestone is Regulatory Consultant at Pestone Consulting, where he provides advice on market regulation legal issues, particularly SEC rule filings, exchange trading and trading system compliance.
He was previously the chief legal officer of the Boston Options Exchange (BOX), which he joined in October 2008. In 2000, he was awarded the Capital Markets Award as a member of the Options Market Reform Team. 
== Background ==
Before joining BOX, Pestone was Of Counsel at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he provided counsel to exchanges regarding market regulation, surveillance, and compliance for both equity and options trading. In addition, he has represented BOX since its inception, most notably during its SEC approval process in 2003. Prior to joining Bingham, Pestone served at the SEC from 1992-1999 where he was special counsel with the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations' (OCIE) SRO Inspection Group.
== Education ==
Pestone holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA in History from Vassar College.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Boston Options Exchange
Wayne Sharpe

Wayne Sharpe is the founder of Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX), a global electronic platform for spot trading of voluntary carbon credits. He was replaced as chairman of CTX in 2016 when it was rebranded as CBL Markets in a management buyout.
== Biography ==
Sharpe began studying the issue of climate change in the late 1990s and became increasingly concerned about lack of action to deal with it.
After identifying a gap in communication and transaction capability between the business and environmental sectors, he became committed to providing the technology necessary to deliver the financial resources to a wide array of projects aimed at solving the challenge of climate change. 
He conceived and founded the exchange in 2007 and designed the technology and infrastructure. He then led the development of the platform, as the first global exchange based on Microsoft Azure cloud technology. 
He then designed and developed the technology interfaces with multiple registries (Voluntary and Regulated) and banks including Deutsche Bank and Westpac.
He built relationships with every major carbon credit standard in the world, and all major environmental organizations and regulators. He speaks at key global events such as the UN Climate Change Conference, World Climate Summit, Carbon Expos and many other business summits.
 
Before establishing Carbon Trade Exchange, Sharpe founded Bartercard, the world's largest non-cash credit unit (barter) exchange. 
During his tenure, Bartercard facilitated over $40 billion in trade, via more than 30 million transactions in 20 countries and currencies and at its peak had 136 offices worldwide. He served as CEO for 21 years, before selling the flagship operation in Australia in 2007 to establish Carbon Trade Exchange. He won every Barter industry award on offer (12) and had one created (Outstanding Achievement Award) in his honor. He is a member of the International Reciprocal Trade Associations (I.R.T.A.) Hall of Fame. 
Bartercard also won awards globally including Best International and Best Domestic Franchise system (Australia), Best Entrepreneurial Business (Hong Kong) and Best Business Tool (UK). Sharpe is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Society of Senior Executives.
Sharpe sold his remaining shares of Bartercard in early 2012 to focus exclusively on CTX. He has been its sole investor in its first seven years from R&D to global operations. 
In the late 1980s, he founded his own financial services company on the Gold Coast, Precision Financial Services, which still operates. He resides in the Gold Coast, Australia, and commutes to the CTX headquarters in Sydney. He counts many sports, particularly tennis and jet skiing, in his list of pursuits. He is also a philanthropist engaged in many annual charitable events, such as the Qantas CEO Cook Off initiative.
== References ==	
Category:CTX - Former Employees
Category:Environmental Markets
WeatherBill

WeatherBill Inc. is a weather-risk-management outfit based in San Francisco, California. WeatherBill provides the only online service that allows businesses to protect revenue and control costs from the impact of bad weather. 
Founded by CEO David Friedberg, CTO Siraj Khaliq and former members of the Google team, WeatherBill is funded by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures and Allen & Company. It is backed by Nephila Capital, one of the world’s largest weather risk and catastrophe reinsurance fund managers.
In June of 2008, Priceline announced that it would offer a new "sunshine guarantee" over summer months that would refund 100 percent of the airfare, hotel and car rental charges booked through them if one of their customers' vacations was rained upon. It only applies to certain destinations, and it has to rain 0.5 inches per day for at least half the trip, but there is no additional fee for the insurance. The insurance is being provided through WeatherBill.
 
== References ==
Category:Weather
Category:Risk Management
WeatherBug

WeatherBug manages and operates the world's largest weather station network, continuously delivering live weather information. WeatherBug's technology supports its network of 8,000 Tracking Stations, creating a capability for real time weather monitoring not available from any other source. 
== History ==
WeatherBug provides individuals, schools, businesses and government agencies with the most precise live weather conditions, the most relevant weather reports, and the earliest weather warnings to safeguard and to plan ahead. With 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras primarily based at neighborhood schools and public safety facilities across the U.S., WeatherBug maintains the largest exclusive weather network in the world. WeatherBug’s data is the only live neighborhood weather available anywhere.
WeatherBug developed a strong private/public partnership with the National Weather Service, aiding Homeland Security in 2002. 
== References ==
==Resources==
Glossary of Weather Terms
Category:Weather
Weather Insight

Weather Insight provides tailored weather services for the energy industry. These weather services provide key market information to help traders better understand the influence weather may have upon commodity prices. Weather Insight addresses a market need that is growing in both size and sophistication. 
== Products and Services ==
Their main focus is to offer weather services that focuses on actual financial impact of weather on the capital markets. Their tropical product allows traders to track probable paths of major disturbances, while assessing the impact of these storms on production assets. This information is vital for all the traders in the energy, power and weather markets. 
==Resources==
 Weather Insight Launch Industry Newsletter, Weather Insight, June 24, 2008 
== References ==
Category:Weather
Weather auctions

Stamford-based Tradition Financial Services LLC (TFS), is the largest broker of weather derivatives in the world. This year, TFS completed an auction on behalf of UBS looking to hedge its risk. The deal totaled in excess of $60 million and ended up being oversubscribed because of the high amount of interest in the transaction. 
TFS also brokered the first-ever weather derivatives auction for a company in Rome totaling $40 million. Other auctions included an auction for the agricultural industry and the first auction for Asia. These weather auctions traded over $160 million in notional value.
== References ==
Category:Weather
Weather station

A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make weather observations by monitoring atmospheric conditions to study the weather. This weather station has a thermometer for measuring temperature; barometer for measuring changes in air pressure; hygrometer for measuring humidity; anemometer for measuring wind speed and wind direction; and rain gauge for measuring precipitation. Weather stations also have non-traditional equipment like a webcam for visual weather observation and an electro-magnetic pulse counter for lightning detection..
==Reference==
Category:Weather
Weatherbill

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WeatherBill is a digital technology company that was rebranded The Climate Corporation in 2011 and eventually acquired by Monsanto in 2014.
==Background==
Their business model is that WeatherBill will pay the buyer a specific amount of money if a certain weather event happens at a particular location within a specified timeframe . As compared to CME Group weather products or StormExchange target customers from the middle market to institutional clients, Weatherbill attract a retail audience that the deals are usually smaller in notional value.
For example, TechCrunch mentions golf course owners may buy a contract by which they will receive $1,000 per day of rain, thereby shielding the course against losses due to bad weather. WeatherBill's pricing is based on weather statistics and computer modeling of future weather forecasts and trends . Flash-based weatherbill.com serves as both the company's corporate website and also a front-end interface by which customers may obtain quotes for and purchase contracts. WeatherBill also offers various free software tools from its website that companies may use to assess and manage their weather risks. 
According to the company's website, United States contracts are legal and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Due to limitations imposed by the Commodity Exchange Act, contracts in the United States are only sold to buyers who meet certain eligibility requirements. 
== References ==
==Resources==
Aviation, Weather-Related Flight Delays Can Be Predicted
 
Reuters, WeatherBill Publishes Study on the Impact of Weather on Film Box Office Revenue
IndustryWeek, Study Examines Climate Change in Major US cities
PR Newswire, tudy Examines Rain Patterns in US
World Golf, Study Examines Impact of Climate Change on US Golf Industry
Category:Weather
WebICE

WebICE is a proprietary browser-based front-end to the Intercontinental Exchange's electronic trading platform. WebICE provides instant access to ICE's futures and OTC markets through an internet browser. It also provides commodities traders with data security and encryption. 
WebICE features include:
*Single-click order entry and trading functionality
*Seamless integration from Excel formulas into WebICE via ICEMaker
*Position Keeper tracks daily buys and sells on the exchange affording a trader real-time P&L numbers
*Fully configurable trading screen to maximize desktop area based on each trader's specific needs
== References ==
Category:Front-End
Category:InterContinentalExchange
Web ICE

Web ICE is an Internet-based subscription service that provides real-time access to trading activity on the ICE Trading Platform. Web ICE is available to members of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), or existing subscribers who are active in the financial, energy and commodities markets.
Web ICE allows users to create portfolios based on individual user requirements. Data available via the platform include information for ICE Futures Europe, ICE Futures US (NYBOT) and over-the-counter cleared oil, gas and power markets.
Subscribers utilize a view-only version of the ICE Trading Platform and can subscribe to ICE North American OTC markets including natural gas, power, NGL’s and petrochemicals as well as all ICE Futures and NYBOT futures markets.
The features of Web ICE include:
* Live market quotes including bid, ask, trade and volume
* The depth of market, level II order book and all bids/offers posted on ICE or ICE Futures
* Trade ticker to view current day’s history
* The timestamps for recording bids, offers and trades 
In 2007, ICE made improvements in its web-based front end Web ICE by increasing capacity and adding new products and functionality such as a futures link to Microsoft Excel. 
== References ==
Category:Electronic Match Engines
Category:Definitions
Category:InterContinentalExchange
Wedbush Futures

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Wedbush Futures is a Chicago-based futures commission merchant and commodities broker offering trade execution and clearing services. The FCM was created out of the September 2014 sale by KCG Holdings Inc. of its Knight Futures subsidiary to Wedbush Securities Inc. 
== History ==
Wedbush Futures traces its history back to the founding of Goldenberg Hehmeyer ("GHCO") in 1985. 
GHGO was acquired by Penson Worldwide in 2007. The firm was originally called Penson GHCO. Penson Worldwide had also acquired First Capitol Ag, efutures.com and Wolcott & Lincoln, LLC, an FCM located at the Kansas City Board of Trade. Knight Capital Group acquired the futures commission merchant business of Penson Financial Services, Inc. in 2012, and renamed it Knight Futures.
In the summer of 2012, a technology problem caused Knight to lose $440 million in one day. Though a capital injection allowed the firm to avert bankruptcy, over the course of two years the company shed a number of business units including the sale of its market making unit to GETCO and its futures division to Wedbush.
Wedbush had gained a foothold into the listed derivatives space when it acquired select assets of Crossland LLC. This acquisition gave the firm access to access to derivatives exchanges including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Eurex and LIFFE. 
In November 2015, Carl Gilmore, who headed the futures division of Wedbush, announced he would be leaving the firm to begin a consulting business, with Wedbush as its first client. The company named Joe Signorelli, who then headed Wedbush's Lime Brokerage subsidiary, as its new head of futures. 
== Key People ==
*Robert Fitzsimmons, Executive Vice President, Fixed Income, Commodities and Stock Lending
*Kevin B. Wirth, Senior Vice President, Director of Finance
*Michael T. O'Hara, Senior Vice President
*James J. Zellinger, Senior Vice President
*Brian J. Hofferica, Director of Information Technology
*Mike O'Callaghan, Managing Director, Business Development
*Terry Scott, Senior Vice President, Head of Business Supervision FICS
*Diana Pejkovich, Senior Financial and Compliance Consultant
*Catherine W. Moseley, Vice President, Operations Management
*Christine M. Egan, Vice President, Operations and Project Management
*Patrick G. Spiroll, Vice President, Chief Compliance officer
*Brian Kelly, Senior Vice President, Head of Risk 
== References ==
Category:Futures Commission Merchants
Category:KCG
Category:Knight Futures
Category:Wedbush Securities