I just returned from another great trip to Brazil where I had the opportunity to meet with our growing community of clients, prospects and market participants. I also addressed a large group of executives at at Fundacao Dom Cabral focused on the importance of capital markets and exchanges for small and mid-sized companies as well as the potential impact of the JOBS Act on Brazilian companies consi

May has been awash in buzz words. So many, in fact, that it's hard to keep up. Below are a few of my favorites, some brand new and some rediscovered just in time for the next cocktail party.

Each year, companies distribute millions of proxies to their shareholders. Almost 60% of all proxies are delivered electronically today, although the balance of shareholders still prefer to receive hard copies by mail. The fees...

A view from the Member's Gallery inside the NYSE (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

NYSE Euronext Amsterdam employees celebrate today’s brand launch.NYSE Euronext’s new brand icon – an abstract representation of the globe – visualizes our strategy of unlocking the potential of our worldwide community.Our brand identity represents an organization with both a strong vision and rich heritage, ready and positioned for growth. Our brand vibrantly represents the dynamism of NYSE Eurone

We recently convened an interesting group of people, two of which were directly involved with the IPO Task Force and the creating the new JOBS Act legislation. We had Paul Maeder (last year’s NVCA Chairman) and Kevin McClelland, Head of Tech IB at JMP Group. We were also involved as a partner of the Task Force and helped them in a variety of ways as they sought to bring this legislation forward. J

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As part of our ongoing effort to pass along useful (and hopefully interesting) information we have been working together with our partner firms to identify additional value-add content and services that we can deliver to our listed clients. Many of our partners produce valuable thought leadership content in the form of events, webinars, white papers, etc. and we will be providing more opportunitie

With profitability reaching historic highs and the uncertainties facing global markets, companies are debating the merits of paying dividends vs. initiating a buyback program to return cash to investors. Last week, our partner, Thomson Reuters held a webinar sharing their research on: Dividend vs. Buyback

The economic release schedule for the week of May 7th is as follows: Click this link for a more comprehensive economic calendar for the week. Economic Indicators - What to Watch This week I spoke with Arthur Cashin, Managing...

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HAVING spent years heaping new rules onto its financial markets, America is about to take a modest step in the opposite direction.

Nearly $100 million in seed money was pledged last year to startups and creative projects through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com--just one of many websites now dedicated to matching projects with people who have some means and desire to support them. What Kickstarter donors got in return were things like "thank [...]

According to Gartner, the most important themes businesses will have to grapple with going forward are mobility, cloud computing, big data and social computing (networks and media). The ways we all look at and evaluate IT are...