With the new year nearly upon us, marketers have their budgets and plans in place. Now it’s time to get to work. While most will be busy jump-starting lots of programs, seasoned pros know that among all types of marketing efforts, PR can deliver a big bang for the buck when done right.  That’s the […]

Even before the hip teenagers realized that nobody goes to the mall anymore, about a dozen math and science Ph.Ds packed into a co-working office in downtown Manhattan already knew it. On their computers, the Ph.Ds started to see a decline in the number of “pings” from cellphones that they were tracking in those malls. And that […]

On November 16th, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its first enforcement actions against initial coin offerings (ICOs) that did not file for an appropriate securities exemption following the SEC’s DAO report. The SEC settled claims with both Paragon and AirFox with each ICO issuer required to refund all investors in their ICO while paying […]

No one will deny that Wall Street can be a competitive place. But Bryan and Melissa Harkins have found the perfect way to put those competitive energies to good use—and for a good cause. The annual Wall Street Rides FAR charity event brings together hundreds of people from across the financial markets to benefit autism […]

Earlier this month, Dash Financial Technologies added James Doherty as Head of Equity Product. Markets Media caught up with Doherty to ask him about his new role. You’ve had a very impressive career in the electronic trading space. What attracted you to Dash? I love working with clients who are into the details and nuances of […]

Grapevine Logic Inc. is a world leading end-to-end influencer marketing platform that was recently acquired by client Ideanomics. When Sahara Lotti started her lash extensions company, Lashify, in 2017, she didn’t know what she was getting herself into. It wasn’t making and selling fake lashes that stumped her—she was more than prepared for that—but rather the […]

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the trading and capital markets space is facing a short week, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of storylines to keep an eye on. Perhaps the biggest one surrounds the Consolidated Audit Trail, or CAT, which passed a major milestone last week. As of November 15, major SROs […]

Blockchain is poised to redefine how we make transactions in the same way that the internet has redefined how we communicate and share information. It was originally created a decade ago to support the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but has grown to be so much more. Blockchain has lead to the creation (and loss) of millions of fortunes, the […]

Trading in cryptocurrencies has mainly been driven by retail investors, particularly on the hunt for profits from short-term, speculative transactions. Meanwhile larger institutional participation in cryptocurrency trading has been mainly kept on the sidelines due to several missing, but extremely important, features. In order for crypto to become a true asset class, it is “absolutely […]

Wall Street is not yet satisfied with the security of a massive SEC trading database set to begin collecting investor data in the coming days. On Nov. 15, U.S. stock and option exchanges such as those owned by Intercontinental Exchange Inc., Nasdaq Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc., as well as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, will start reporting […]