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Alphacution Press: Wall Street Journal on Susquehanna, ByteDance, TikTok

“No matter the outcome of the struggle between China and the U.S. over video-sharing app TikTok, an unlikely winner will be a secretive trading firm based outside of Philadelphia.” – by Wall Street Journal reporters Rolfe Winkler, Jing Yang and Alexander Osipovich. Alphacution contributes analysis to Wall Street Journal story on legendary option-trading powerhouse, Susquehanna International Group’s ownership interest in ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of video-sharing social media app, TikTok, “Secretive High-Speed Trading Firm Hits Jackpot With TikTok” (October 1, 2020). Additional related analysis on share of option markets in Alphacution’s Feed post, “Runaway Concentration Risks is US Option Markets.”

By |2020-12-03T20:46:43-05:00October 2nd, 2020|Press|
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Alphacution Press: Forbes on Robinhood

“The perfect stock trading app for the videogame generation was supposed to “democratize finance” with zero-commission trades. But the primary plan was to get rich by selling customer trades to the market’s most notorious operators.” – by Forbes Staff Writers Jeff Kauflin, Antoine Gara, and Sergei Klebnikov Alphacution contributes to Forbes development of story on Robinhood, “The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them” (August 19, 2020).

By |2020-12-03T20:48:02-05:00August 21st, 2020|Press|
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Alphacution Press: Investor’s Business Daily on Robinhood

“New investors are riding the stock market’s climb during the coronavirus pandemic.” – by Matt Krantz, Personal Finance and Management Editor, IBD Alphacution contributes to Investor’s Business Daily’s development of story on Robinhood, “Beginning Investors Are Charging Into Stocks; What Could Go Wrong?” (August 14, 2020).

By |2020-12-03T20:49:54-05:00August 15th, 2020|Press|
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Alphacution Press: The Hill on Robinhood

“The rush of armchair traders investing through Robinhood, an easy-to-use app for trading stocks, may be helping inflate a stock bubble and setting up investors for a potential bust.” – by TheHill.com Reporter Niv Elis Alphacution contributes to TheHill.com’s development of story on Robinhood, “Are trading apps propping up markets?” (August 6, 2020).

By |2020-12-03T20:52:54-05:00August 7th, 2020|Press|
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Alphacution Press: Bloomberg on Robinhood

“Robinhood’s users have been mocked endlessly for their inexperience and even blamed for a stock market many view as out of touch with reality.” – by Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, Nir Kaissar Alphacution contributes to Bloomberg Opinion’s development of story on Robinhood, “Robinhood Is Democratizing Markets, Not Disrupting Them” (July 17, 2020).

By |2020-10-02T17:27:24-04:00July 18th, 2020|Press|
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Alphacution Press: New York Times and Robinhood

“Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms, but their inexperience can lead to staggering losses.” – by Nathaniel Popper Alphacution contributes to The New York Times’ development of story on Robinhood, “Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results” (July 8, 2020).

By |2020-10-02T17:33:07-04:00July 9th, 2020|Press|
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Forbes Loves Alphacution: “Software is Eating the World, Starting With Finance”

< Originally published by Tom Groenfeldt, Contributor, Forbes - July 31, 2018 > On its way to eating the world, software is eating up bank IT budgets, according to Paul Rowady, CEO of the consultancy Alphacution. Marc Andreessen, the venture capitalist, is the author of the famous quote about the general rise of software. Rowady, who is developing sophisticated models around finance and technology, sees software eating up IT budgets and crimping spending on hardware at banks. He thinks that compliance is to blame, something he plans to look at in more detail  in a future study. “Going back a few years I saw software needs crowding out hardware needs, and that led to the adoption of cloud and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). There is no off-the-shelf solution for enterprise-wide compliance, so a lot of budget went to that and couldn’t be used for other needs.” Compliance presents a challenge for big banks. “A lot of these larger players were loose conglomerations of businesses that had been bolted together for [...]

By |2020-10-05T21:21:38-04:00August 21st, 2018|Press|
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