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Second Time A Charm: BATS To Float IPO

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Mark Melin
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After a snarled first attempt failed, BATS  Global Markets Inc filed with regulators for an initial public offering on Wednesday, seeking $100 million in funding.

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On a day in which the Securities and Exchange Commission is reported to announce it is allowing a major West Coast technology company the ability to offer a new initial public offering using blockchain technilogy, BATS Global Markets, itself an electronic exchange, is having Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan underwrite...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.