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Disrupting Capital Markets in 2025: How Jane Street Rewrote the Rules

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

It isn’t just a story about disrupting capital markets in 2025, Jane Street, the market maker and liquidity provider, has been growing its disruptive strategy for several years now. Jane Street is proud of how technology is central to everything it does. The company builds almost all its software in-house, including its trading and risk management systems.
ECB Cuts Rates Amid Euro Strength and Shifting Safe Haven Dynamics

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

This morning there was a very different tone to the conversation about the U.S. Dollar. It was on the back of a speech by Jerome Powell from yesterday where he stressed that the Fed must ensure tariffs don’t trigger more inflation. The European Union has not made much progress in negotiating tariffs with the U.S. In the meantime the ECB is doing better with its inflationary challenges. The U.S. dollar is losing its safe haven status due to the impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs.
AWS Outage Disrupts Crypto Exchanges, Exposing Centralized Risks

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

On April 15, 2025, a power failure at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center froze withdrawals and trading on major cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, KuCoin, and MEXC, rattling the $45 billion daily crypto market. The hour-long outage, from 12:40 A.M. to 1:43 A.M. PDT, exposed the fragility of centralized infrastructure underpinning fintech—a wake-up call for an industry built on decentralization. This isn’t AWS’s first disruption.
Is Onyxcoin (XCN) a Top 100 cryptocurrency?

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

The Onyxcoin Goliath Mainnet was announced in early March. Since then Onyxcoin or XCN has almost halved in value from $0.0169 to $0.0087 on Wednesday last. However, on Friday last week things changed dramatically with the XCN token rising to highs of $0.02. It has even led to the token being listed amongst the Top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap. Coinbase today states the market cap as $664 million. It also lists XCN as the 83rd most popular cryptocurrency.
Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Stumbles Despite Record Equities in Q1 2025

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

Yesterday, Goldman Sachs reported 2025 first quarter earnings. Net earnings have grown from the fourth quarter of 2024 from $4.11 billion to $4.74 billion in the first quarter of this year. Investment banking fees were down in the first quarter of 2025, both compared to the first quarter of 2024 and the last quarter of 2024. We investigated this topic in more detail. Especially given how record bonuses are at stake for the CEO and COO of Goldman Sachs.
Can Tesla Survive Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs?

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Sean Maguire |Seán Maguire

Tesla stocks took another plunge this week in the wake of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs. Monday marked a drop of 55% from a record high value reached back in December. Across the world, but particularly in North America, protestors are taking action, setting fire to and damaging Tesla vehicles in defiance of Elon Musk’s closeness with President Trump. But this week saw perhaps the first signs of a rift between Musk and Trump.
Quantum's Promise for Financial Institutions

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

The world is waking up to the potential of quantum computing. Both it’s potential for good, as well as its potential for bad. Many companies have already made the Quantum Leap including IBM, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and several others you will be less familiar with. As it stands, the cost of a quantum computing is still significantly higher than it will be in the future. With new technologies appearing regularly, are financial institutions taking advantage of quantum’s promise?
Bitcoin Boom Slows at BlackRock in Q1 2025

1 week ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

It’s been a busy few months at BlackRock. First, we heard from Larry Fink in his annual letter to investors at the end of March. Then first quarter earnings at the world’s largest asset manager were announced yesterday. Each year Larry Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock, publishes an open letter to investors. At #DisruptionBanking we regularly cover news about Fink and some of the challenges he and his firm face. However, last year things became dramatically different.
What is the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP)?

2 weeks ago | disruptionbanking.com | Sean Maguire |Seán Maguire

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has been a trailblazing model in pension planning since 1990. With approximately 343,000 active and retired members, it has become one of the largest public pension plans in the world. More than this, it’s one of the most successful and innovative, with plans around the globe recognizing the potential in its sustainable and responsible approach.
First XRP ETF Outperforms Crypto Market (XXRP)

2 weeks ago | disruptionbanking.com | Andrew Samu

Yesterday the Dow Jones and S&P 500 both surged on the news of Trump’s pause on tariffs. Cryptocurrencies have also jumped in value since the news with tokens like Hedera, XRP and Chainlink all gaining over 10 percent in the last 24 hours. However, yesterdya’s big news has been the release of the first XRP ETF and how XRP subsequently outperformed most of the crypto market.