Written by Robert Brennan Hart, Executive Director of Smarter Markets™
Dr. Leemon Baird, Hedera Hashgraph Co-founder
Hedera Hashgraph co-founder Dr. Leemon Baird joins Erik to discuss the distributed ledger technology that makes tokenization possible.
Bill Pazos, AirCarbon Exchange Co-founder and COO
AirCarbon Exchange co-founder and COO Bill Pazos joins us this week to discuss the history, present challenges, and future of the carbon credit trading industry.
Dr. Ben Hunt, Founder of Epsilon Theory
Epsilon Theory founder Dr. Ben Hunt joins Smarter Markets to weigh in on how social media is being used to engineer the narratives which shape both financial markets and society more broadly. We discuss the influence of social media then go on to discuss how financial...
Mark Fisher, Commodities Legend
Commodity legend Mark Fisher shares some choice stories, including how the Hudson River can be used as a risk management tool to cure over-trading, then goes on to reflect on how the design of commodities futures markets could be improved.
Jos Schmitt, Founder of NEO Stock Exchange
NEO Stock exchange founder Jos Schmitt explains why most existing stock exchanges give an unfair trading advantage to some customers over others, and explains why he launched a new exchange specifically designed to level the playing field for all investors.
Frank Lavin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
NEO Stock exchange founder Jos Schmitt explains why most existing stock exchanges give an unfair trading advantage to some customers over others, and explains why he launched a new exchange specifically designed to level the playing field for all investors.
Mike Green, Partner at Logica Funds
Logica Funds’ Mike Green explains why he and most of the smartest people in finance are in the business of exploiting and profiting from deficiencies of current markets, rather than fixing them. Mike explains why incentives don’t favor fixing what’s broken, and what we need to do to change the system and enable migration to a new generation of Smarter Markets.
Charlie McGarraugh, Chief Strategy Officer for Blockchain.com
Charlie McGarraugh is Chief Strategy Officer for Blockchain.com, the largest self-custodied crypto wallet provider globally. Previously he was a Goldman Sachs Partner and former head of metals trading, so his native language is finance. In this interview, Charlie explains Tokenization in terms that Finance professionals can relate to, then goes on to explain what this change will mean both to financial markets and to the people who work in them.
Thom McMahon, Former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange
Thomas McMahon has over 50 years of experience in international exchange-based Commodity and Derivative product creation, clearing, trading, and regulatory licensing. Over the past decade, Thom has worked broadly across Asia to bring to market major international...