Walt Lukken, President and CEO, Futures Industry Association

Between the FTX Congressional Hearing and FIA’s upcoming Commodities Forum, President and CEO of the Futures Industry Association, Walt Lukken, made time to sit down with David Greely to kick off SmarterMarkets newest series: Systems at Risk. Download full transcript → Hosted By

Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder, Abaxx Technologies

In this second episode of our three-part series, host Grant Williams dives into the heart of the matter with Josh Crumb, CEO and Founder of Abaxx Technologies. Josh and Grant discuss the SmarterMarkets™ vision for how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the […]

Tim McCreight on Managing Risk in Data Security Systems

For the latest chapter of ‘Identikit Sequent X’, Michelle Dennedy joins Tim McCreight, Managing Director of Enterprise Security at CP Rail, to discuss the role of digital identity in securing the modern enterprise. Tim is the current Managing Director of Enterprise Security at CP Rail and former Chief Security Officer at the City of Calgary […]

Mark Fisher Musing on How to Improve the Futures Markets

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. Hosted By

Mike Green on Market Deficiencies and Incentives for Not Fixing Them

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 […]

Ranting on the inadequacies of our systems and riffing on ideas for how to solve them …

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