Podcast Episodes

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 9 | Mark Fisher Musing on How to Improve the Futures Markets

Episode 9

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 commod…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 8 | Jos Schmitt Calling Out What’s Wrong with Conventional Equity Markets — and How to Fix Them

Episode 8

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 specifica…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 7 | Frank Lavin on Why Singapore Will Thrive as Asia’s New Financial Capital City

Episode 7

Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore Frank Lavin weighs in on Singapore’s suitability as the emergent Asian Financial Capital City and Singaporean regulators’ willingness to consider new and innovativ…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 6 | Mike Green on Market Deficiencies and Incentives for Not Fixing Them

Episode 6

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…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 5 | Charlie McGarraugh on Translating Tokenization Jargon to Digestible English

Episode 5

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 tradi…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 4 | Thom McMahon Reflecting on Friedland, Ayati, and Currie’s Visions for Building Smarter Markets

Episode 4

Abaxx co-founder Thom McMahon weighs in on the company’s activities to actually design and build the fully tokenized commodity trading system envisioned by Robert Friedland, Maryam Ayati and Jeffrey …

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 3 | Jeff Currie on New Technologies and Finding a Price for Carbon

Episode 3

Goldman Sachs commodities chief Jeff Currie weighs in on the next commodity cycle, the return of inflation, and why it’s essential for the marketplace to figure out how to put a price on carbon in or…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 2 | Maryam Ayati’s Vision for Tokenizing the Entire Supply Chain

Episode 2

Energy industry veteran and NEO co-founder and CEO Maryam Ayati reacts to Robert Friedland's vision of grading and trading commodities based on ESG aspects of how they're produced, and expands on Rob…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 1 | Robert Friedland on Grading, Trading, and Responsibly Producing Commodities

Episode 1

Billionaire Canadian financier Robert Friedland headlines the inaugural episode, and shares a vision of commodities being graded based on how responsibly they were produced with regard to ESG priorit…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

Coming Nov. 28th: SmarterMarkets – a new podcast from MacroVoices and Abaxx Technologies

In this new podcast series, I'll be talking to leaders in both business and in finance. We'll discuss the shortcomings of financial markets as they're currently designed and talk about what could be …

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago