Ginger Szala

About the Author

Ginger Szala

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Ginger Szala has written for and edited Futures magazine since joining in November 1983. Her main beats were covering the international growth of the business and its players and developing the managed funds coverage of the magazine. As a result she has interviewed some of today's best global hedge fund and commodity trading advisors. In 2009 she was named Group Editorial Director of Summit Business Media's Professional Services Group. After Futures was sold in early 2013, she was named its publisher and editor-in-chief of Futures Magazine/The Alpha Pages LLC.  She received a master's degree in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. gszala@futuresmag.com

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  The Blotter: CBOE hit with $6 million fine, optionsXpress fined $3.5 million

  By Ginger Szala  |  June 14, 2013

  CBOE settles with the SEC on an enforcement action involving sham trades by member firm optionsXpress and it CFO.

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  The Blotter: U.S. Bank hit with injunction due to PFG accounts

  By Ginger Szala  |  June 7, 2013

  PFG's banker U.S. Bank finally gets CFTC attention, injunction

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  Has high frequency trading become the new normal?

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 31, 2013

  Exchanges have adapted to new market reality by improving speed of automated trading systems to level playing ground for all traders, study finds.

• Vilified no more

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 24, 2013

  A funny thing happened while the financial world was falling apart in 2008 and 2009: Commodity trading advisors performed, and performed well.

• Vilified no more

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 24, 2013

  June Editor's Note from Ginger Szala.

• Bill Brodsky: Lead-off man who played all leagues

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 24, 2013

  With a 40-year plus career spanning all segments of the financial industry, Bill Brodsky, Chicago Board Options Exchange executive chairman, talks about the events that shaped the modern trading landscape, his role in them, and what’s next for the industry.

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  The Blotter: Florida Ponzi scheme operators ordered to pay $28.4 million

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 23, 2013

  A running list of regulatory and enforcement actions from around the trading industry.

• Action is power

  By Ginger Szala  |  May 1, 2013

  The name Jon Corzine still puts the futures industry’s teeth on edge. And the reaction seems stronger than some other names that have roiled their spheres of influence.

• Action is power

  By Ginger Szala  |  April 24, 2013

  The name Jon Corzine still puts the futures industry’s teeth on edge. And the reaction seems stronger than some other names that have roiled their spheres of influence.

• CTAs speak out: “We’ve been wronged!”

  By Ginger Szala  |  April 24, 2013

  A year after the MF Global bankruptcy one cash management firm decided to ask CTAs and CPOs how they were impacted by these bankruptcies.