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Past articles by Frank:

A self-learning trading venue has raised $9 million, and it's hoping that it can solve a big headache hanging over the stock market

While the cost of trading for retail investors is racing towards zero, institutions are seeing this cost increase for stock trades of a certain size. → Read More

Wall Street is worried that a $1 billion acquisition will allow Virtu to spy on clients, but the firm has a big plan to quell those anxieties

Virtu is trying to break into a business dominated by Wall Street's big banks: buying stock on behalf of large hedge funds and asset managers. → Read More

JPMorgan has weighed in on one of the biggest debates tearing apart Wall Street, and it’s 'like an 800 pound gorilla wading in’

JPMorgan recently submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining its position on the so-called transaction fee pilot, a controversial proposal to shake up stock trading in the US. → Read More

Morgan Stanley is reportedly getting ready to offer clients exposure to bitcoin with a new trading product

Morgan Stanley is diving deeper into the world of cryptocurrencies and is planning to offer trading of a new product tied to bitcoin, according to a Bloomberg News report. → Read More

Upstart exchange IEX snags its first listing from Nasdaq

It's an important moment for the young stock exchange which commands just 2% of the stock trading market. → Read More

'They now see it in the same way they see the VIX and gold': The 25-year-old cofounder of a crypto trading platform explains why billion-dollar hedge funds are getting interested in the market

BI PRIME: Already, Seed CX has brought on several heavyweights from the Chicago trading world, including Sam Tegel, the former head of liquidity strategy at Jump Trading, and most recently John Hart, a former managing director at CME Group. → Read More

'This is something we have to do to push the ecosystem forward': Tyler Winklevoss explains why Gemini is launching a crypto coin pegged to the US dollar

BI PRIME: Business Insider spoke with Tyler Winklevoss, the president of Gemini, about the firm's new stable coin. Gemini hopes the crypto will become a digital cash, bringing together the best of fiat and blockchain assets. → Read More

Citigroup has created a new, less risky way of investing in crypto — and it may be a game changer for the industry

BI PRIME: The structure would place cryptocurrencies within existing regulatory regimes and give big Wall Street investors like asset managers and hedge funds a less risky way of investing in the fledgling asset class. → Read More

Coinbase is exploring a crypto ETF, and it has sought help from $6 trillion Wall Street giant BlackRock

BI PRIME: Coinbase is known for its wide-ranging business model. It's now looking to create an exchange-traded product tied to crypto, according to people familiar with the matter, as a way of allowing retail investors to gain access to volatile markets. → Read More

Goldman Sachs is ditching near-term plans to open a bitcoin trading desk, instead focusing on a key business for driving Wall Street investment in crypto

BI PRIME: Goldman is focusing on other projects such as a custody product for crypto, which would have the bank hold cryptocurrency on behalf of large fund clients. → Read More

Coinbase, the cryptocurrency powerhouse, has doubled its staff to 500 even amid bitcoin market rout

BI PRIME: Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange, in recent weeks hit its target to double its staff in 2018. → Read More

TOM LEE: Ether futures might be a bad thing for the crypto, and a good thing for its biggest rival

BI Prime: Bitcoin bull Tom Lee tells Business Insider ether futures might be a bad thing for ether, but a good thing for bitcoin. → Read More

Wall Street has helped eliminate one of bitcoin's biggest problems, and it could fulfill 'Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision'

Wall Street is helping bitcoin become more stable, according to an exec at a crypto trading tech firm. → Read More

Cboe is telling market makers that it's getting close to launching ether futures — and it could mark a big step in the crypto's evolution

BI PRIME: Cboe, the exchange group behind the first market for bitcoin futures, is telling market makers that ether futures will soon be live. → Read More

A $1.5 billion investment firm is taking a fresh approach to launching a crypto index, and it's hoping the move will win over pensions and endowments

BI PRIME: A $1.5 billion money manager is teaming up with a California crypto startup on a new kind of index for the crypto world. → Read More

The finance legend who pioneered the first oil ETF explains why he's not holding his breath for a bitcoin one

BI PRIME: A bitcoin ETF would likely make it easier for mom-and-pop to tap into the market, which known for its volatility and market manipulation. John Hyland, a early leader of the exchange-traded fund industry, put the odds of a bitcoin ETF going live in 2018 at 20%. → Read More

JPMorgan is quietly building what it calls a 'next-generation prediction platform' and it's betting eventually the whole world will use it

BI PRIME: The new project, called Roar, is being spearheaded by Samik Chandarana, a 19-year veteran of the bank who was appointed last year to a newly created position to unleash machine learning and data solutions onto the corporate and investment bank. → Read More

JPMorgan’s assault on Silicon Valley’s turf continues with launch of cheap stock trading app

JPMorgan is taking the plunge into the world of low-cost stock trading, according to a CNBC report. → Read More

A big move by JPMorgan in digital investing could trigger a price war on Wall Street

BI PRIME: Fidelity, along with rivals TDAmeritrade and Charles Schwab, are bringing down their costs to fend off upstart firms such as Robinhood, which pioneered zero-commission stock trading. → Read More

The Winklevoss twins are teaming up with exchange rivals to take a page out of the stock market's playbook — and it could be a game changer for crypto

BI PRIME: The Winkelvoss brothers' Gemini and three other exchanges have announced the creation of the Virtual Commodity Association Working Group, a body that could be a precursor to the formation of a self-regulatory organization for digital commodities like bitcoin and Ethereum. → Read More