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Jeffrey Harris

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Jeffrey Harris is the former chief economist at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). On Dec. 30, 2009, he announced he would leave the agency and return to academia. 
== Background ==
Harris was appointed chief economist by former CFTC acting chairman Walter Lukken. Before becoming chief economist in 2007, he was a consultant to the agency in 2006. He planned to return to his position as a professor at the University of Delaware's Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. He was slated to teach classes on investments and derivatives during the spring semester, which would start on Feb. 8. 
In 2008, Harris had said he could find no direct link between speculation and high energy prices. Harris played an important role in analyzing market data surrounding the speculation debate. He testified several times before Congress on the issue and was chairman of the inter-agency task force that produced a controversial 2008 report on crude oil, which concluded that there was no evidence speculators had been systematically driving price changes in the crude oil market.
== Education ==
Harris received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Physics and Business Administration from the University of Iowa, and received a doctorate in finance from Ohio State University. His research interests include market microstructure and equities trading and initial public offerings and investor behavior.
== References ==
Category:Former CFTC Officials
Category:Economists
Jeffrey Hogan

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Jeffrey Hogan is managing director of business development for BGC Partners, a global inter-dealer broker that provides integrated voice and electronic brokerage services. In this role he is focused on regulatory, sales, product development and strategic development issues. He works out of the firm's London office.
== Background ==
Hogan has been with BGC since its inception in 2004, when Cantor Fitzgerald separated the inter-dealer brokerage business from the rest of its operations such as investment banking and proprietary trading of fixed income securities. Before joining BGC, Hogan spent 19 years at Cantor Fitzgerald and eSpeed, the firm's electronic bond trading platform that was sold to NASDAQ OMX in 2013. In these roles, he managed several derivative and cash brokerage units, served as managing director of e-commerce, and managed sales, product development and merger & acquisition activity. 
Earlier in his career Hogan held trading and management positions at Bankers Trust and Manufacturers Hanover.
== Education ==
== References ==
Jeffrey J. Diermeier

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Jeffrey J. Diermeier, CFA, is the retired president and chief executive officer of the CFA Institute, a position he assumed in January 2005. He serves on the board of Stairway Partners, an investment management organization, is co-trustee with his wife, Julie, of the Diermeier Family Foundation, and is former chair of the Hinsdale Hospital Foundation. 
He also serves as a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting , where he chairs the Delivering Financial Information Subcommittee. 
 
== Background ==
Diermeier has served the not-for-profit association in various volunteer capacities for 19 years, including six years on the CFA curriculum committee. He most recently chaired the board’s planning committee, and in that capacity played a leadership role in the development of a five-year strategic vision for the organization. He is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and served on its board of directors from 1989 to 1992. 
Until early 2004, Diermeier was global chief investment officer at UBS Global Asset Management . He was with UBS and its predecessors, primarily Brinson Partners, Inc., since joining the former First National Bank of Chicago as an equity analyst in 1975. In his almost 30 years with the organization, he served as head of asset allocation, head of the U.S. equity division, and deputy chief investment officer and co-head of global equity. He became global chief investment officer in 2000. 
 
== Awards and Publications ==
Diermeier has received two Graham and Dodd Scroll Awards for research articles he has contributed to the Financial Analysts Journal, published by CFA Institute. He also has received a Roger Murray Award from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance. He has received the distinguished Business Alumnus Award from the University of Wisconsin, where he served on the dean's advisory board of the business school and endowed the Jeffrey J. Diermeier Chair in Finance. He is a member of the board of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Not-for-Profit Advisory Council, and a former member of the investment committee of the University of Chicago Endowment. 
== Education ==
Diermeier received a bachelor of business administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an MBA from the same institution. 
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:SEC Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting Member
Jeffrey M. Bandman

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Jeffrey M. Bandman is a New York based consultant who is a principal in Bandman Advisors. He is the former CFTC fintech advisor and the founding director and architect of LabCFTC.
He also served as special counsel to former CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad. He has served in positions at LCH.Clearnet and Cantor Fitzgerald, as well as run his own consulting practice.
 
== Background ==
From 2010 to 2013, Bandman served as head of partnerships and alliances for LCH.Clearnet Group's SwapClear segment. Between his tenure at SwapClear and joining the CFTC, he focused on his consulting practice, in which he advised market participants such as swap execution facilities, data analytics firms and other derivatives market participants.
Before that, he worked on two electronic trading initiatives, serving as interim CEO of Project Rainbow and as acting chief operating officer of LiquidityHub. In the days after the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, Bandman was responsible for the rebuilding of Cantor Fitzgerald's market data business and also served as a senior vice president of the firm's eSpeed division.
Earlier in his career he was general counsel at Tullett Prebon. He began his career as an law associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York.
== Education ==
Bandman earned a B.A. with honors in both History and English from Yale University. In 1988 he earned a J.D. from Stanford University Law School.
== References ==	
Category:Tullett Prebon - Former Employees
Category:LCH.Clearnet - Former Employees
Category:CFTC - Former Employees
Jeffrey M. Christian

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Jeffrey M. Christian is the managing director and founder of CPM Group, which offers commodities research, consulting, asset management and investment banking services.
== Background ==
Christian is well known for his work on copper, foreign exchange markets and other commodities. In 2006, he published "Commodities Rising: The Reality Behind the Hype and How To Really Profit in the Commodities Market.
He has worked with governments and organizations such as the United Nations (UN), World Bank, International Finance Corporation and International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as with many large and prominent mining companies, industrial companies, investment banks, and institutional and individual investors.
Christian writes and speaks extensively about precious metals and commodities markets, as well as world financial and economic conditions. He has been involved in much of the pioneering work applying economic analysis and econometrics to commodities markets, as well as efforts to improve the quality of commodities market research.
Christian created CPM Group in June 1986, when he and his associates within the commodities research group in the Goldman Sachs Investment Research Department left as a unit to create CPM Group as an independent research company. 
Previously, Christian was head of commodities research at J. Aron & Company, which was later purchased by Goldman Sachs.; and was editor at Metals Week
== John Lothian News Interviews ==
*Five Minutes with Jeffrey M. Christian - October 2012
*Five Minutes with Jeffrey M. Christian - April 2012
*Jeffrey M. Christian audio interview - September 2010
== Education ==
Christian earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1977.
== References ==
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Jeffrey M. Lacker

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Dr. Jeffrey M. Lacker was the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond from Aug. 1, 2004 to April 4, 2017. In 2012, he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
He resigned on April 4 after admitting he had discussed confidential information with an analyst regarding the Fed's economic stimulus plan in 2012.
== Background ==
After joining the Bank in 1989 as an economist in the banking area of the research department, Lacker went on to become research officer in 1994, vice president in 1996, and senior vice president and director of the research department in May 1999. Before that, he was an assistant professor of economics at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University from 1984 to 1989.
In April 2012, Lacker said in an interview with Bloomberg News that the implementation of the Volcker rule may be "impossible."
== Education ==
*Economics, Franklin and Marshall College (1977)
*Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin (1984) 
== References ==	
Category:Federal Reserve System
Category:Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Jeffrey Maron

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Jeffrey Maron is a New York-based financial markets professional who serves as managing director of 7RIDGE, a specialized growth equity and private markets asset management firm based in London. He has over 30 years of experience in trading, data, product and strategic acquisitions. 
== Background ==
Before joining 7RIDGE in 2023, Maron was global head of product, TraditionDATA at Compagnie Financiere Tradition.
Also, he served as managing director at MarkitSERV, the OTC derivatives trade processing arm of Markit. He joined Markit in 2012, and was responsible for pre-trade product management. Before joining Markit, Maron held several roles at inter-dealer broker GFI, including global head of administration for eCommerce and before that, head of trading systems, North America. 
Earlier in his career, he was head of the exchange division at SuperDerivatives and, prior to that, he was chief content officer at Moneyline Telerate and a managing director at ICAP. He began his career as a trader in money markets, futures and OTC derivatives, eventually heading the interest rate swap desk at the New York office of NCB.
== Education ==
Maron holds a bachelor's degree from Skidmore College and attended Sophia University in Tokyo.
==John Lothian News Interview, October, 2013==
Jeffrey Maron of MarkitSERV Talks Plumbing: How SEF Reporting Infrastructure Works
With the official launch of swap execution facilities (SEFs) on October 2, a new trading structure for OTC products is underway. Today, with almost 20 SEFs operational or in the works, the question for many market participants is how will all the trading and reporting work? JLN editor-in-chief Jim Kharouf sat down with Jeffrey Maron, managing director, product management for MarkitSERV, to talk about the reporting aspect of these swaps transactions.
Published October 7, 2013.
== References ==	
Category:Moneyline Telerate: Former Employees
Category:ICAP - Former Employees
Category:NCB - Former Employees
Category:Sumitomo Bank - Former Employees
Category:TraditionDATA - Former Employees
Jeffrey Morgan

Jeffrey Morgan is the president & CEO of the National Investor Relations Institute, a "professional association of corporate officers and investor relations consultants responsible for communications among corporate management, shareholders, securities analysts and other financial publics." Previously, he was the COO of the Futures Industry Association. 
== Background ==
Morgan has more than 18 years of experience with trade organizations and joined National Investor Relations Institute from the Washington, D.C-based Futures Industry Association where he served for nine years. He was also chief staff executive of the Institute for Financial Markets (IFM).
Morgan was also formerly senior vice president of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents where he had been employed for nine years.
== Education ==
Morgan holds a masters degree in nonprofit management from Eastern University and bachelor of science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance and Information Technology in 1982 from Susquehanna University. Morgan is also a Certified Association Executive.
== References ==
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Trade Association Executives
Category:National Investor Relations Institute
Jeffrey S. Yass

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Jeffrey Yass is the co-founder and managing director of Susquehanna International Group (SIG), based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. According to Forbes, he had a net worth of $27.6B in 2024.
Susquehanna, his global quantitative trading firm, was the first big backer of ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok. SIG currently owns about 15 per cent of ByteDance, a stake worth about $40bn that represents a significant chunk of Yass’s net worth, the Financial Times quoted "people familiar with the matter" as saying.
Yass is one of the biggest donors to the Republican party. He is also the biggest institutional shareholder of Digital World Acquisition Corporation, the shell company that merged with former President Donald Trump’s social media company. However, he has not endorsed Trump or donated to his campaign. Yass is also a supporter of private and charter schools, and of conservative groups in Israel. 
== Background ==
After attending college at Binghamton, Yass went to Las Vegas with some friends and made a bundle playing poker in Las Vegas. He brought his winnings back home to New York and went to business school at NYU. He became an options trader on the American Stock Exchange and then in 1981 he began trading on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, backed by the billionaire Israel Englander. He eventually bought a seat on the latter exchange. 
Yass became a professional gambler right after college and has long been interested in sports and betting. For a college economics class, Yass wrote a final paper titled, "An Econometric Analysis of Horse Racing," which he eventually published in Gambling Times magazine.
Yass and his friends from Binghamton college — Arthur Dantchik, Eric Brooks, Andrew Frost, Steven H. Bloom, and Joel Greenberg — formed Susquehanna in 1987, just before the market crashed. On October 19th — Black Monday — Susquehanna made several million dollars.
== Education ==
He earned a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Binghamton.
== References ==
Jeffrey Singer

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Jeffrey Singer is chief executive officer of the Dubai International Financial Centre.
== Background ==
Previously, he was CEO of DIFX (now called NASDAQ Dubai) and was a member of the DIFX board. Singer filled the position vacated by Per E. Larsson, who accepted another senior position in the region. Singer was appointed DIFX CEO effective July 1, 2008. 
Singer joined the DIFX from NASDAQ OMX where he was senior vice president and head of international, responsible for NASDAQ’s global business development with a primary role of managing international relationships with companies outside of the Americas. 
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:NASDAQ Dubai
Category:DIFX
Category:NASDAQ OMX
Jeffrey Tessler

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Jeffrey Tessler is a bank and clearing and exchange executive who is chairman of the supervisory board at both Eurex Frankfurt and Eurex Clearing. He was appointed to that role in June 2018, replacing Hugo Bänziger, who had held both offices since 2012. 
He has been a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse AG since 2016.
Previously, he was responsible for Deutsche Boerse's clients, products and core markets division, which combines Eurex Clearing and Clearstream, both of which used to operate separately under the Deutsche Boerse umbrella. The newly-formed division also coordinates group-wide product development and global sales activities.
He assumed the role on January 1, 2016. Handlesblatt reported in August of 2017 that Tessler would leave that role at the company at the end of the year.
He also served as chairman of Clearstream until July 2018.
From 2004 to 2015 Tessler was the chief executive officer and president of Clearstream International S.A., owned by Deutsche Boerse AG. He has also been a member of the executive board at Deutsche Boerse AG since October 6, 2004. He was also a member of the boards of ISE's two options exchanges, ISE and ISE Gemini before they were sold to Nasdaq.
== Background ==
Tessler served as an executive vice president of BNY Securities Group of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation from 2003-2004.
		
He joined Deutsche Boerse following a 25-year career with The Bank of New York Company Inc., where he held a number of key management positions. He was also head of the securities industry banking division at The Bank of New York from 1988 to 1998. 
From 1979 to 2003 he worked for Irving Trust Company before it became the Bank of New York. 
From 1975-1979 he worked as a bank examiner at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in New York City.
== Education ==
Tessler holds an MBA from Seton Hall University, New Jersey in 1983 and a BA in Political Science from College of New Jersey in 1975.
== References ==	
Category:The Bank of New York Mellon - Former Employees
Category:Clearstream
Category:Deutsche Boerse
Jeffrey Wecker

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Jeffrey Wecker is a New York-based hedge fund and technology executive and consultant who is currently the chief technology officer of Two Sigma.
Previously, he was president and CEO of Lime Brokerage. He joined the firm in November 2008. Alistair Brown became acting CEO of Lime Brokerage in October of 2010 after Wecker resigned as chief executive officer and president.
== Background ==
Before joining Lime Brokerage, Wecker was CEO of Townsend Analytics (TAL), the Chicago-based direct-access trading platform acquired by Lehman Brothers in December of 2005. He also was managing director at Lehman Brothers.
One of his Wecker's early priorities at Townsend was Project SPRITE, an initiative to support equities and bond trading. 
He joined Lehman Brothers in 1999 to create the firm's electronic commerce and connectivity platform, and eventually was promoted to global head of electronic client services. Wecker previously was managing director/co-founder of Caspian Securities from 1995-1999, and head of Asian Derivatives Trading at Goldman Sachs from 1984-1995.
== Education ==
Wecker holds a BSE degree in Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Princeton University.
== JLN Options Newsletter Interview ==
*September 29, 2010
== References ==	
Category:Bios - Executives
Category:Lime Brokerage - Former Employees
Category:Lehman Brothers - Former Employees
Category:Townsend Analytics - Former Employees
Category:Consultants
Jeffrey Wilson

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Jeffrey Wilson is a Chicago-based agricultural reporter at Bloomberg.
== Background ==
Wilson joined Bloomberg News in January of 2004. Before joining Bloomberg, Wilson was a reporter with Futures World News and Oster Dow Jones.
From 1985 to 2003, Wilson was an editor and analyst with Brock Associates.
== Education ==
== References ==	
Category:Journalists
Category:Bloomberg
Category:Oster Dow Jones - Former Employees
Category:Futures World News - Former Employees
Jenner & Block

Jenner & Block is a law firm based in Chicago. The firm's specialties include litigation and transactional practices. The firm chairman, Anton R. Valukas, is the former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He served as the court-appointed examiner in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. 
In July, 2012, the NFA appointed Jenner to review their auditing practices in the fallout following the bankruptcy of PFGBest, the Cedar Rapids-based FCM.
== History ==
Since its foundation in 1914 under the name Newman, Poppenhusen & Stern, Jenner & Block has gone through many name changes. The firm's focus had always been in the area of corporate litigation in representing prominent Chicago businesses and individuals. Throughout the course of the 20th century, the firm became a prominent supreme court litigator and, subsequently, attracted clients such as Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch and General Electric onto its retainer. The firm and its partners have played large roles in the writing and enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Distinguished Alumni include Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens. 
== Key People ==
Anton R. Valukas, Chairman
== References ==
Category:Lawyers
Category:Law Firms
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Jennifer Baum

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Jennifer Baum was promoted to the position of OCC's chief compliance officer and senior vice president in June 2020, taking the place of Joe Adamczyk when he left the organization. She also serves as a member of OCC's management committee. 
== Background ==
Baum joined OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization, in November 2017 and previously served as first vice president, regulatory and corporate compliance. She has worked in various capacities in the compliance and futures industries for more than 25 years, including as managing director of the investigations department of the Chicago Board of Trade, associate director of market regulation at CME Group and executive vice president of client solutions at MF Global. 
In addition to her regulatory background, Baum has run global new account operations and client service functions at several financial services firms. She also has served in chief compliance officer roles at smaller futures commissions merchants, including Dorman Trading LLC, where she worked for nearly four years before joining OCC. 
== Education ==
Baum is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
== References ==
Jennifer Flax

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Jennifer Flax is a media content coordinator at the Futures Industry Association in Washington, DC.
== Background ==
Prior to joining the Futures Industry Association, Flax was a freelance editor, working on science fiction and fantasy novels for Orbit Books.
She has also been a marketing and office coordinator for Autodesk where she managed front-end web content, supported marketing and provided data reports for senior staff.
Flax was also an assistant editor with the Hachette Book Group.
== Education ==
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English language and literature and letters from the University of Maryland College Park.
== References ==	
Category:Futures Industry Association
Jennifer Fortino

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Jennifer Fortino is a director of business development at CBOE Futures Exchange.{{cite web|url=http://cfe.cboe.com/aboutcfe/contacts.aspx|name=Contacts|org=CBOE Futures Exchange|date=September 5, 2013}] She came to the position in June 2011. 
== Background ==
Prior to working for CFE, Fortino worked at OneChicago from 2001-2011. She worked in trading operations and marketing and business development. 
== Education ==
Fortino received her degree in marketing and communications from Saint Xavier University.
== References ==	
Category:OneChicago
Category:CBOE Futures Exchange
Category:CBOE