All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Exchanges & Capital Markets

Wal-Mart (NYS:WMT) has agreed to serve as a customer collection point or distribution channel for Sharebuilder's low cost consumer brokerage and investment account business. ShareBuilder is a regulated broker/dealer and will be totally responsible for all investment products and services. Other discount,...

Meeting the needs of the under banked in the US ia a large market opportunity. There is a material segment of the US population which is under served by banks and financial services companies. The method this segment uses to handle bill payment, sending finds home, and the like is very expensive for...

THIS WILL CERTAINLY RATTLE THE MARKET!  NOW EVERYONE CAN PLAN FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM!  this willbe a great way to bring in more revenue to the financial markets and also serve as a benefit for all U S citizens to plan for the families and their Future!

I don't agree with the analysis. Financial services requires a very high level of customer support and professional services. Just like E*Trade and Schwab can't succeed in the food business if they opened online food stores, Wall Mart will find that this is not their cup of tea. This will force the...

Wall Mart along with Sharbuilder will be viewed as a neutral party. The entry of Wall Mart into the brokerage business might encourage Sears to join the party, given the background of the Hedge fund Manager who owns Sears. Online Trading is going to become a house hold thing, which is good for retail...

As a Southerner (Birmingham, Alabama) I feel comfortable using the term Bubba to mean "salt of the earth", "blue collar", "lower to central middle class" white male/female demographic which makes up at least 75% of American workers and nearly all of our retired folks. Bubba is a huge fan WalMart. The...

Key Implications: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange has raised its original bid for the Chicago Board of Trade by 16% to $9.9 billion, to thwart IntercontinentalExchange bid for CBOT, who bided $10.5 billion, however, ICE's unsolicited bid has been rejected by CBOT Holdings Inc. Board of Directors. ...

ICE reported increasing earnings.  However, their volume of crude oil contracts traded head to head with the NYMEX decreased.  In markets where they have no competitors, they had increasing volume.  ICE had the benefit of increasing volume at the NYBOT post acquisition because NYBOT products...

Securities markets have been converging and seeing enhanced M&A activity  for  some time now. One  just  has  to  consider NYSE-Euronext, Deutsche Borse-ISE, NASDAQ-LSE  and  a  host  of  other deals  some  of  which  went ...

Ever since  the  Sarbannes  Oxley  Act  was  implemented  there  has  been  a  perception - right or  wrong -  that  the  American capital markets  are  no  longer  an  attractive  proposition ...