IPO-VID Livestream Podcast with Patrick L Young: Recent Episodes
Patrick L. Young
For many years the acronym IPO has also stood for "In Patrick's Opinion" - that's me, Patrick L Young Executive Director of Valereum, long time derivatives trader, serial entrepreneur, and fintech pioneer. IPO columns have appeared in various business and financial periodicals while I publish the newsletter of the bourse business "Exchange Invest."
Join me as I interview key figures in financial markets on this podcast derived from our weekly LiveStream.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #145 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann who has authored 28 books which have been translated into 30 languages.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #144 by Patrick L Young with Jason Sen who has almost 40 years experience trading, most recently as a day trader and skilled technical analyst on screen from his home in Thailand.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #143 by Patrick L Young with Thapelo Tsheole who was recently announced as the new CEO of the Rwanda Capital Markets Authority. Join us for a fascinating discussion on this dynamic economy and its financial markets.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #142 by Patrick L Young with Brian Hyndman, the President and CEO of BOT.Previously, Brian was the SVP of Global Information Services for The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Prior to this he served as SVP of Transaction Services responsible for managing operations of Nasdaq’s U.S. equities trading platforms..
AdvisorWelcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #141 by Patrick L Young with Roland Bellegarde, Senior advisor to the Group CEO of the Saudi Tadawul Group; actively participating in multiple projects modernizing and developing the Saudi Capital Markets. He is currently a Board member of the Saudi exchange, the Clearing House (Muqassa), the CSD (Edaa) and the innovation subsidiary (Wamid).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #140 by Patrick L Young with Chris Skinner, an award winning independent commentator on financial markets and fintech through his daily blog, the Finanser.com, which is updated daily. He helped to found one of the first mobile banks in the world, and has advised CEOs and leaders from every continent of the world including the UN, the White House, the World Bank and the WEF. In 2023 he was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Payments Association, the largest community in payments.
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Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #139 by Patrick L Young with Bharat Kulkarni.
Dr. Bharat Kulkarni, has worked on the establishment of four commodity exchanges in Africa and advised on Warehouse receipt systems He has also consulted across Agricultural project investment and the Agricultural Value chain in Africa and Asia, with clients ranging from Private investors to Governments.
Dr Kulkarni is a former commodity trader who has worked for MCX India, IFPRI and The United Nations. During his stint with UN, he worked on redeveloping the value chain of Coffee and Sesame in Ethiopia.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #138 by Patrick L Young with Tom Caldwell.
Thomas S. Caldwell has been in the investment industry since graduating from McGill University in 1965.
Mr. Caldwell is President, CEO & Director of Urbana Corporation, a publicly traded investment company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Canadian Securities Exchange (“CSE”). He is also a past Chairman of the CSE, “The Exchange for Entrepreneurs”.
Mr. Caldwell is a Retired Honorary Colonel of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment and was a Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange who is recognized as one of the world’s foremost investors in securities exchanges.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #137 by Patrick L Young with Magnus Haglind, SVP, Head of Marketplace Technology within the Market Platforms division of Nasdaq responsible for business management and product portfolio strategy across a broad suite of mission critical market infrastructure solutions for market operators.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #136 by Patrick L Young with Gunnar Stefansson.
Gunnar Stefansson has a background in statistics. In his day job, he is a professor at the University of Iceland. His research and applications attempt to merge blockchain and cryptocurrency with educational technology and charity.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #135 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann, a German historian, sociologist and multiple bestselling author, whose 26 books include “In Defence of Capitalism.” His books have been translated into 30 languages around the world along with his copious quantity of Op-Eds and he has twice been our guest on IPO-VID
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #134 by Patrick L Young with Hamish Adourian, Head of Sales and Marketing at Sinara, a London-based software house established for over 30 years well known as a trusted software partner to leading financial institutions worldwide.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #133 by Patrick L Young with Tiaan Bazuin.
Tiaan Bazuin is an entrepreneurial qualified lawyer who has been CEO of the Namibian Stock Exchange since 2013 and MD of the Central Securities Depository (Pty) Ltd, and MD of Birdsong Properties (Pty) Ltd, a real estate developer company situated outside of Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. Tiaan is chairman of the CoSSE Legal Sub-committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of NMC (Namibia Medical Care).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #132 by Patrick L Young with Rafael Plata.
Rafael is the Secretary General of the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH), the trade body that represents European CCPs. A seasoned professional of capital markets industry for over 20 years, he has in the past represented the interests of regulated market at FESE, contributed to EU policy-making at an MEP office at the EuroParl and advised pension funds as an investment consultant.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #131 by Patrick L Young with Brad Schaeffer.
Polyglot commodities trader, musician, author & widely read columnist on a range of topics everywhere from The Hill to the Wall Street Journal, Brad Schaeffer has just published his third book: "LIFE IN THE PITS: My Time As A Trader On The Rough-And-Tumble Exchange Floors", recounting Brad's time as clerk then trader in the mosh pit of the commodities trading floors in Chicago and New York.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #130 by Patrick L Young.
Join us for our annual review of the year with content from:
Christopher Sturgess, Eamonn Butler, Yra Harris, Scott Shellady, Hamish McRae, Susan Gidel, Rainer Zitelmann, Mark Wheatley, Andreas Schweitzer , Andrea Corcoran, Rod Blondin, John Ensley, Ann Berg, Richard Sandor, Lucas Schmeddes, Johan Norberg, Stephen Donofrio and Steve Zwick
Discussing their thoughts on where the “Capital Market Revolution!” goes next, beginning the 25th anniversary year of the original book’s publication!
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #129 by Patrick L Young with John Fildes.
Having grown Chi-X Australia from 4% to 21% market share in Australian equities, John Fildes knows all about how CEOs can drive change in markets. He has been involved in markets across the globe with a strong background in innovation, having launched the first ETF in Europe (SPDR S&P500) in 1993 across a vast experience in financial markets…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #128 by Patrick L Young with Susan Gidel & Yra Harris.
Susan Abbott Gidel nowadays specializes in financial astrological market research and publishes the “Red Letter Trading Days” newsletter. The author of “Trading In Sync With Commodities—Introducing Astrology To Your Technical Toolbox” amongst other books, Susan was previously our IPO-VID guest on Episode #115: Astrology, the Markets, and You
Fellow IPO-VID alumnus Episode #112: Yra Harris: Patience Is A Virtue. Yra Harris has over 46 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading, with broad expertise in cash currency markets, Yra is an active macro-global trend trader. He is a regular guest analyst on Currency & Global Interest Markets on Bloomberg & CNBC.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #127 by Patrick L Young.
Join us for our annual review of the year with content from:
Simon O'Brien, Les Male, Bruce Goldberg, Alina Aldambergen, Craig Pirrong, Monica Singer, Tim Worstall, Jeffrey Kutler, Albert Menkveld, Jennifer Ilkiw, Collin Formosa, James Block, Bob Pisani, Jim Oliff, Alex Lamb, Rainer Zitelmann, Philip Roscoe, Jeff Carter, Paul Constantinou, Pat Kenny, Gedon Hertshton
Discussing their thoughts on where the “Capital Market Revolution!” goes next, beginning the 25th anniversary year of the original book’s publication!
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #126 by Patrick L Young with Steve Zwick & Stephen Donofrio.
Steve Zwick writes about the economics of sustainable development and the interplay between land-use and climate change -- two subjects he developed a fascination for in a 30-year career that brought him from Chicago's trading pits and led to subsistence farms in rural parts of Kenya, Vietnam, and Brazil.
Stephen Donofrio is Managing Director of Ecosystem Marketplace, the world’s first and only globally recognized and standardized Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) end-to-end transparency platform providing exclusive carbon trade pricing data, insights, and news.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #125 by Patrick L Young with Johan Norberg, an author and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He received his M. A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Stockholm and is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. Norberg has written books on a broad range of topics, including global economics and popular science. He has achieved a worldwide readership with books like Progress, Open and most recently The Capitalist Manifesto translated into more than 30 languages. Norberg also regularly hosts documentaries on development and economics for American public television, including India Awakes, The Real Adam Smith and Sweden: Lessons for America?
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #124 by Patrick L Young with Lucas Schmeddes, President & COO of leading continental European energy exchange ICE Endex, ICE Endex provides liquid European gas, emissions and power markets as well as gas balancing markets in the Netherlands and the U.K. (OCM).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #123 by Patrick L Young with Richard Sandor, CEO of Environmental Financial Products (EFP), which was the incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the American Financial Exchange (AFX). Among Dr. Sandor’s academic roles, he is currently the Aaron Director Lecturer in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School and an honorary Professor at the School of Economics at Fudan University and the University of Hong Kong.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #122 by Patrick L Young with Ann Berg, a leading expert in commodities, commodity futures, and food security issues. She is a former grain exporter, futures trader and CBOT director. She has worked for governmental and intergovernmental organizations including the USAID, the World Bank, UNCTAD, EC/EU and was a senior advisor to UN-FAO from 2008-2021. She has worked truly worldwide…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #121 by Patrick L Young with John Ensley.
John Ensley, is leading a financial planning revolution to help you take back control of your money. After losing almost everything during the great recession, John became obsessed with finding safe, predictable ways to save and create wealth.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #120 by Patrick L Young with Rod Blondin.
Rod Gravelet-Blondin has a lifetime of experience in agricultural economics having been Agricultural Counselor at the South African Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland responsible for South African agricultural representation at the GATT (now WTO.) and Agricultural Counselor at the South African Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium responsible for agricultural relations between South Africa and the European Union.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #119 by Patrick L Young with Andrea Corcoran, Principal of Align International and former director of two divisions at the CFTC, advises the C-suite of firms and regulatory authorities located on five continents on various regulatory and policy puzzles. Her consulting services include confidential evaluation of organizational structures and processes, development of regulatory and compliance strategies, training, adaptation to international standards, and much more after 15 years as a consultant. Previously she was the initially Trading and Markets, the CFTC’s then-principal regulatory arm, and, subsequently, the newly created, Office of International Affairs.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #118 by Patrick L Young with Andreas Schweitzer, the Managing Director of London based Arjan Capital Ltd, a UK FCA regulated trade and corporate advisory firm with a focus on factoring, supply chain financing and payment mechanisms in complex jurisdictions.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #117 by Patrick L Young with Mark Wheatley.
The City of London remains the world’s most cosmopolitan international financial centre. With well over a thousand years of continuous history at the forefront of commerce, it’s hardly surprising moves are afoot in the Square Mile to make the UK’s financial hub an epicentre for investing in the Space economy. Join us for a fascinating discussion with leading City politician and advisor, Mark Wheatley.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #116 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann, a German historian, sociologist and multiple bestselling author, whose 26 books include “In Defence of Capitalism.” His books have been translated into 30 languages around the world along with his copious quantity of Op-Eds.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #115 by Patrick L Young with Susan Gidel.
Susan Abbott Gidel specializes in financial astrological market research honed from 35 years in the commodity futures business as a journalist and brokerage firm marketing executive.
Based in Chicago, she is a regular on the conference circuit for professional astrologers and in 2018, Susan published “Trading In Sync With Commodities—Introducing Astrology To Your Technical Toolbox.” Her first book, published in 2000, was about stock indexes.
Currently, Susan publishes a newsletter, “Red Letter Trading Days,” alerting traders & investors to important astrological energy. She also writes the weekly “Finstrology” column at Astrology.com.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #114 by Patrick L Young with Hamish McRae.
Acclaimed author, former Euromoney Editor, and adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin, Hamish McRae is one of Europe's foremost speakers on global future trends in economics, technology, business and society.
He is a columnist for the i newspaper and the Mail on Sunday. His books include “The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity.” and its sequel “The World in 2050: How To Think About The Future.” Hamish's other books include “Capital City - London as a Financial Centre,” co-authored with Frances Cairncross.
Amongst his awards are the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism in 2005, the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2006 British Press Awards, and Communicator of the Year at the 2007 Business Journalist Awards.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #113 by Patrick L Young with Scott Shellady.
Scott Shellady is an experienced Managing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the capital markets industry. Who is best known as “The Cow Guy.” A financial TV regular for decades, often in his remarkable trading jacket, Scott is Markets Anchor on RFD TV in Nashville Tennessee where he is Host of The Cow Guy Close show.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #112 by Patrick L Young with Yra Harris.
Yra Harris has over 46 years of experience in all areas of commodity trading, with broad expertise in cash currency markets, Yra is an active macro-global trend trader. He is a regular guest analyst on Currency & Global Interest Markets on Bloomberg & CNBC.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #111 by Patrick L Young with Eamonn Butler.
Dr Eamonn Butler is the much garlanded Director & co-founder of the prestigious Adam Smith Institute, a leading global policy think-tank promoting a free society and free economy.
His award winning books include ‘Foundations of a Free Society’ which has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #110 by Patrick L Young.
Join us for a different show with celebrations and thoughts on the AFM 25th anniversary conference as well as kicking off our 10th anniversary celebrations for Exchange Invest.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #109 by Patrick L Young with Christopher Sturgess.
Chris Sturgess has over 25 years’ commodities market experience having begun with South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) where a small team revolutionized South African commodity trading.
Until early 2018 Chris was Chairman of the Association of Futures Market, a position he held for 5 years. More recently he has concentrated on consulting services on the African continent, working with various stakeholders in Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Cote d’Ivoire, Togo and Nigeria. He has also been engaged with the World Bank and their various carbon funds.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #108 by Patrick L Young with Gedon Hertshten.
Gedon Hertshten has been a hugely successful and influential figure in the growth of the global derivatives industry. Join us as we look at how markets can develop in future decades after the dizzying rise of modern ETD from the 1970s on…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #107 by Patrick L Young with Paul Constantinou &
Pat Kenny.
AFM President Paul Constantinou is best known in the exchange business for his years selling trading systems to exchanges particularly in the energy and commodities space with Trayport and other vendors.
AFM Chairman Patrick J. Kenny is Senior Vice President of client relations for CQG. His responsibilities include business development and working with account management. He joined the firm in July 2010. Previously, Kenny had been with Patsystems, North America as an Officer and Managing Director for 10 years. Patrick has worked in the financial trading sector for more than 42 years years. Spent 20 years at the CBOT on the Floor trading. Board Member of FIA Tech Division, Board Member of The Small Exchange, Chairman Of AFM and President of Fontana on Geneva Lake in Fontana Wisconsin. Sometimes referred as The Most Interesting Man in the Futures world, mostly by John Lothian
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #10 by Patrick L Young with Jeffrey Carter.
Jeff Carter notes his key strengths include being Innovative, Strategic, Transparent, & knowing how to get the edge. He took the ethic from the trading floor of "My word is my bond" and brought it into practice with early-stage investing.
Jeff is a partner at early stage VC WestLoopVentures.com, an early stage VC fund that invests in B2B Fin Tech companies & was the driving force behind HydeParkAngels.com, the most active angel network in the Midwest.
An independent trader at CME for over 2 decades he was a member of the CME Board of Directors while remaking the member mutual into a for profit, public company as an active member of the Strategic Planning Committee who chaired or co-chaired several committees.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #105 by Patrick L Young with Philip Roscoe.
Philip Roscoe is Reader in Management at the University of St Andrews. His research takes a sociological approach to markets and finance across diverse topics such as online dating, Santa’s Lapland hideaway, and many other topics. A former journalist, he was one of the first of BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Thinkers. His new book, How to Build a Stock Exchange, mingles history, technical detail and humorous anecdotes to explore the nature and purpose of finance.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #104 by Patrick L Young with Rainer Zitelmann.
Historian and sociologist Rainer Zitelmann is a serial bestselling author, whose 26 books including “In Defence of Capitalism” have been translated into 30 languages around the world.
His Opinion pieces have appeared worldwide in the likes of Forbes, Newsweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Le Monde, Corriere della Sera, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Zürcher Zeitung, as well as publications across South America and Asia. Rainer runs a unique index on the image of rich people having spent much time analysing the personality traits of the rich…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #103 by Patrick L Young with Alex Lamb.
The head of Americas for Scila AB, Alexander Lamb is a veteran futures industry technology executive with a long pedigree including senior roles at TT and RTS Realtime Systems Group. Where he sat on the Executive Board.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #102 by Patrick L Young with Jim Oliff.
A recent inductee into the FIA Hall of Fame, Jim Oliff was a member of the CME board of directors for some 30 years. As Chairman of the exchange’s Strategic Planning Committee, Oliff played a leading role in CME’s journey from a member-owned organization to a demutualized exchange, and the first publicly traded marketplace in the United States of America.
Jim helped to guide the exchange’s brokers and traders through the critical transition from open outcry to electronic trading as chairman of the Electronic Transition Committee, spearheading the creation and build-out of the Globex Learning Center. He also chaired the CME Clearing House Risk Committee, introducing the clearing of interest rate and credit default swaps, and chaired CME’s Professional Responsibilities Committee, leading a program that became a model for exchanges nationwide.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #101 by Patrick L Young with Bob Pisani.
A CNBC reporter since 1990, Bob Pisani has covered Wall Street and the stock market for 25 years. Pisani covered the real estate market for CNBC from 1990-1995, then moved on to become Stocks Correspondent in 1997.
His book “Shut Up and Keep Talking: Lessons on Life and Investing from the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange” was published in October 2022.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #100 by Patrick L Young with James Block.
Lifelong Midwesterner, James Block is a psychiatry resident at the University of Michigan, having completed an MD/Ph.D. at Wayne State University. During medical school, he started researching cryptocurrency markets and discovered red flags concerning fraud and money laundering. This research grew into a newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, dedicated to original investigations of various aspects of the "Dirtiest Bubble of the 21st Century."
Dirty Bubble Media has exposed and contributed to the unravelling of 2 major frauds (Celsius Network and FTX) as well as exposing potential malfeasance at Signature Bank of New York.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #099 by Patrick L Young with Colin Formosa.
Secretary General of the recently established Malta Numismatic Society, Colin Formosa is a Master Mariner by education and Marine pilot by profession where he shepherds ships at the busy Grand Harbour of Valletta and the Malta Freeport (which handles circa 3 million TEUs PA).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #098 by Patrick L Young with Jennifer Ilkiw.
Jennifer Ilkiw is President of ICE Futures U.S., having previously served as ICE’s Head of Asia Pacific where she was instrumental in the 2014 acquisition of Singapore Mercantile Exchange and the subsequent development of ICE’s first exchange and clearing house in the region.
Prior to joining ICE in 2007, Ilkiw opened and managed the Asia Pacific office of NYMEX.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #097 by Patrick L Young with Albert Menkveld.
Albert Menkveld is a Professor of Finance at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. In 2002, he received a Tinbergen PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was in visiting positions for multiple years at various U.S. schools (NYU, Wharton, and Stanford).
Albert’s research agenda is focused on securities trading, liquidity, asset pricing, and financial econometrics and has been widely published in leading financial journals. For three years in a row, he has been the best publishing Dutch economist according to the Economentop 40 published by ESB (2020, 2021, and 2022).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #096 by Patrick L Young with Jeffrey Kutler.
Jeffrey Kutler’s journalistic career has seen quite an arc, from the mass adoption of ATMs through the growth of technology to fintech and most recently the rise of cryptocurrencies with every technological innovation in between!
Jeffrey is an award winning journalist and contributing editor to TabbFORUM. He is also a contributing editor of the Global Association of Risk Professionals’ GARP Risk Intelligence site. He served as editor-in-chief from 2008 through 2019. Before joining GARP, he had senior editorial roles at Institutional Investor, Securities Industry News and American Banker.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #095 by Patrick L Young with Tim Worstall.
Tim Worstall has been the world's major scandium wholesaler, is a Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute and lives by writing on matters economic and financial.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #094 by Patrick L Young with Professor Monica Singer.
Professor Monica Singer is a Chartered Accountant (SA) by training who was the first CEO of South Africa’s CSD, Strate (Pty) Ltd which she set up in 1998 and ran until she resigned in August 2017.
In October 2017, Monica was appointed as South Africa Lead for ConsenSys, a leading blockchain company. Monica is an Advisory Board member to the Global Digital Asset & Cryptocurrency Association and holds a professorial post at the University of Johannesburg specialising in blockchain for the accounting and auditing profession. Monica previously worked at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the World Bank in Washington DC.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #093 by Patrick L Young with Craig Pirrong.
Dr. Craig Pirrong is Professor of Finance and Director of the Global Energy Management Institute at the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston, best known in markets by his moniker “The Streetwise Professor” digesting financial and particularly commodity futures data into fascinating insights.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #092 by Patrick L Young with Alina Aldambergen.
Alina Aldambergen is CEO of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) and Chairman of the KASE Clearing Centre. Alina sits on the board member of FEAS, the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges and is an advisory board member of the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #091 by Patrick L Young with Bruce Goldberg.
Bruce Goldberg CEO & Founder of Goldberg Group, a leading authority on brand positioning / marketing. He was formerly Chief Marketing Officer at ISE.
His award winning "Revolution" branding campaigns helped establish the ISE brand as it grew to become the largest US options market by 2003.
Formerly at CBOE, Bruce’s achievements included branding LEAPS®, while previously he was Product Manager of Frito-Lay's two largest brands, Lays and Doritos where his marketing initiatives drove record growth.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #090 by Patrick L Young with Les Male.
Les was most recently CEO of both Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and the Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) – the largest and most diversified derivatives Exchange group in the Middle East.
A leader in the development of Europe’s first gas spot market (the OCM), Les later became Commercial Director at EnMO and then APX-Endex. In 2010 he became the European Managing Director for the Green Exchange, which was acquired by CME where role took on the European gas and Global LNG strategy for Nymex, prior to joining Nasdaq in 2014 where Les was responsible for EU/UK client facing activities on the Global Commodities product suite.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #089 by Patrick L Young with Simon O’Brien.
Simon O’Brien leads the Markets Department, which is responsible for the authorisation and supervision of Market Infrastructures at the FSRA of ADGM.
Simon has led key projects including the development of ADGM’s Virtual Asset regulatory framework, its Spot Commodities/Environmental Instruments Framework, and its Remote Member framework for ADGM Exchanges and Clearing Houses.
Reviewing the market year via IPO-VID and wondering where the Capital Market Revolution goes next - Part II featuring highlights from our IPO-VID discussion with:
Erja Retzen, Hamish Adourian, Kevin Brady, Mack Gill, Christian Katz, Richard Carleton , Artur Fischer, James Fok, Steven Sears, Paul Conn, Balaji Prabhakar, Eliza Filby, Julia Streets, Max Butti, Brendan Bradley, Patrick Young, Alessandro Hatami and Caterina Caramaschi
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #87 by Patrick L Young - 2022 In Review - Part I!
Reviewing the market year via IPO-VID and wondering where the Capital Market Revolution goes next - Join us live on December 13th for part two featuring highlights from our IPO-VID discussion with:
Erja Retzen, Hamish Adourian, Kevin Brady, Mack Gill, Christian Katz, Richard Carleton , Artur Fischer, James Fok, Steven Sears, Paul Conn, Balaji Prabhakar, Eliza Filby, Julia Streets, Max Butti, Brendan Bradley, Patrick Young, Alessandro Hatami and Caterina Caramaschi
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #086 by Patrick L Young with Balaji Prabhakar.
Balaji Prabhakar is the CEO & Co-Founder of Clockwork Systems, building time-sensitive software solutions for the cloud computing infrastructure and distributed systems.
Balaji is also VMWare Founders Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Previously, Balaji was Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Urban Engines - acquired by Google in 2016 - which developed a new type of database, mapping objects in motion
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #085 by Patrick L Young with Brendan Bradley.Brendan been in financial markets for 35 years and is one of the world’s finest Product Developers, having played a major role in the development cycles of LIFFE, DTB and EUREX.
In his last major corporate role he was an Executive Board member and Chief Innovation Officer at Eurex (part of Deutsche Boerse Group), where he was responsible for championing and "brokering" new ideas, both internally and externally, and looking for new opportunities within the changing market environment, either organically or through investments, particularly in the related FinTech space.
Actively involved in backing/mentoring/advising FinTech firms, Brendan is an MBA lecturer on FinTech strategy at the University of East London, co-author of FinTech for Dummies and author of ESG Investing for Dummies.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #084 by Patrick L Young with Alessandro Hatami.
Alessandro Hatami is the founder and managing partner of advisory firm Pacemakers.io, specialising in driving digital transformation in banking organisations
He has more than 15 years experience including as COO of Digital Banking and Group Innovation Director at Lloyds Banking Group, Director of Large Merchant Services at PayPal UK and MD of PayPoint.net.
Alessandro is a Non Executive Director of Cashplus Bank while mentoring and investing in FinTech start-ups.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #083 by Patrick L Young with Dr Elliot Banks.
BMLL Chief Product Officer Dr Elliot Banks is responsible for data science, product development and product delivery of BMLL's analytics and product suite to clients.
Elliot holds an MMath from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College London.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #082 by Patrick L Young with Christian Katz.
Christian Katz is the CEO of Helveteq, an issuer of ESG transparent investment products including carbon neutral Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). He is also Founder and Managing Partner of financial consulting firm MainStrait and holds several board seats in the financial and technology sectors.
Previously Christian was the CEO of SIX Swiss Exchange, VP of Europe’s largest index firm STOXX and President of FESE, the Federation of European Securities Exchanges. He began his career in investment banking where he held leading positions at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. He holds a PhD in business administration from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and lives in Zurich, having worked in Hong Kong and London during much of his professional life.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #081 by Patrick L Young with Mack Gill.
COO & Board Member of Torstone Technology, a leading global post-trade technology company for financial markets, Mack is also a Director of Yaala Labs, a next generation market infrastructure technology company. Formerly CEO at MillenniumIT, an industry-leading global capital markets software company, part of London Stock Exchange Group Mack was previously President of SunGard Technology Services.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #080 by Patrick L Young with Olivier Guéris.
Olivier Guéris is COO of Astana International Exchange (AIX) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Board Advisor to Wethaq Capital in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and ID Plizz, a US-based Smart Tech company, as well as MD of Nellcôte Consulting in the UAE.
Olivier specializes in setting up and running trading, surveillance and post-trade operations for stock and derivatives Exchanges. Over more than 30 happy years in the parish, he has set up from scratch &/or moved, merged, spun off, managed operations for 7 Exchanges in 6 different countries on 4 continents including Matif, Euronext, the Australian Derivatives Exchange (ADX), Boston Options Exchange (BOX) and Turquoise in London.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #079 by Patrick L Young with Paul Conn.
Paul Conn started his international financial markets career at the London Stock Exchange in 1979. He joined the Australian Stock Exchange in 1989, holding a number of senior roles including Head of New Business Development. Paul joined Computershare in 1998, relocated to New York in 2001 and was appointed President of Computershare's Global Capital Markets Group in 2006.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #78 by Patrick L Young with Kevin Brady.
Kevin Brady is a co-founder and the CEO of A2X Markets a licenced, regulated Stock Exchange created along with Sean Melnick and Ashley Mendelowitz in 2014 to bring healthy competition to the South African equity market and break the 130 year-long JSE monopoly.
A2X started trading in October 2017 and now has 69 instruments listed with a combined market cap of over R5 trillion (US $300bln).
Raised in South Africa, Australia & the UK, Kevin has over 25 years of financial market experience including 12 years at Investec, of which 9 were as head of Investec Institutional Securities and Prime Broking division.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #077 by Patrick L Young with Caterina Caramaschi.
Caterina Caramaschi is celebrating her 21st anniversary working in equity derivatives with ICE (formerly LIFFE)
Named Global Head of Equity Derivatives at ICE in December 2020, Caterina is responsible for ICE’s global equity derivatives complex covering MSCI Index Futures, FTSE Index F&O, NYSE FANG+ Index Futures as well as Single Stock Futures & Options.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #076 by Patrick L Young with Guy Melamed & Magnus Almqvist.
The move to cloud based exchanges raises lots of questions. In this IPO-VID LiveStream with Exberry CEO Guy Melamed & Head of Sales Magnus Almqvist, we discuss the key issues for building markets.
Guy Melamed is a co-founder and CEO of Exberry, the exchange technology pioneer revolutionizing markets. Guy Has been selected by investing.com as one of 12 Fintech Leaders that are shaping the industry.
Magnus Almqvist has a solid understanding of exchanges and their evolving ecosystem universe, as Head of Sales at Exberry with over 20 years' experience including Head of Sales at Aquis Exchange, heading Smarts Group’s London office and CTO of LSEG’s EDX.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #075 by Patrick L Young with Steven M. Sears.
Steven M. Sears is President and COO of Options Solutions. He has helped democratize strategies that have long been used by sophisticated investors to better navigate the financial market. He has dedicated himself to improving investor education and narrowing the information gap that divides institutional and individual investors.
Steve pioneered coverage of the options market and securities trading for some of the world’s most important financial publications including Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s.
Mr. Sears is the author of The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails, a book he wrote to narrow the information gap between skilled institutional investors and everyone else.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #074 by Patrick L Young with Peter Reitz.
Previously a supervisory board member since 2007, Peter Reitz has been CEO of EEX and ECC since August 1st 2011.
Having graduated in mathematics, Peter started his career as a product manager with Deutsche Boerse AG in Frankfurt in 1991 and worked at Dow Jones Indexes in New York from 2000 to 2001 before joining EUREX where he was a member of the Management Board until December 2018.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #73 by Patrick L Young with James Fok.
James Fok is a veteran financial and strategic advisor to corporations and governments who served as a senior executive at HKEX from 2012 until 2021, during a period of rapid internationalisation in China's capital markets. While there, he played a major role in a number of landmark financial markets initiatives, including the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme (2014), Bond Connect (2017) and the Hong Kong market's Listing Reforms (2018). Prior to HKEX, Fok worked as an investment banker in both Europe and Asia, specialising in the financial services sector.
Fok is author of the book Financial Cold War and has written and spoken extensively about market structure issues and the intersection between geopolitics and international finance.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #072 by Patrick L Young with John Kim.
John Kim is co-founder, chief strategy officer & general counsel of Movmint, the world's first retail CBDC in production. In 2020, John - a former partner at Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Fintech Group - led the team that won the prestigious Central Bank Publication Advisor Of The Year Award for Fintech and Digital Projects. In addition to his role at Movmint, John teaches at the University of British Columbia School of Law.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #071 by Patrick L Young with Mark Schaedel.
Mark Schaedel is CEO of DataBP, a global provider of data commercialization technology and services to the world’s largest financial institutions. Mark is also an advisor and founding member of the CalcGuard consortium which provides investment management participants with technology to support order routing transparency.
Previously, Mark was MD and Global Head of Index Services at IHS Markit and served as an executive board member of IHS Markit Benchmark Administration Ltd. Mark spent 13 years with the New York Stock Exchange where he was the Global Head of Information Services Division and an executive officer of NYSE Technologies. After relocating to Amsterdam in 2009, Mark became active in European capital market structure and chaired the FESE MiFID data working group and was a member of CESR’s MiFID working group. In 2012, Mark Co-Founded The COBA Project Ltd., a consortium established to create a European consolidated tape.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #69 by Patrick L Young with Max Butti.
Massimo has worked for investment banks, prop trading firms, market makers and exchanges in trading product and market development, cooperating closely with buy-side and sell-side traders, analysts and portfolio managers and helping creating markets and strategies to support them.
At SDX he leads the equity team, dedicated to enhancing the funding process for private companies and improving the issuance, custody, and transfer of digital securities in SDX’s regulated CSD.
Prior to SDX, Massimo spent 7 years at LSE as head of equity derivatives markets and global account director developing key strategic group accounts.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #068 by Patrick L Young with Ivan Steriev.
Ivan Steriev has been the CEO of the Macedonian Stock Exchange Inc. Skopje since 2005 having been a member of the team which set the sechange up in 1996 and has been working at the MSE since its foundation, first as a Floor manager and then as a Director of Trading Department until 2005.
Ivan has been a member of the Board of the Macedonian Central Securities Depository and Commissioner at Macedonian Security & Exchange Commission. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of SEE Link (an EBRD supported project started by Bulgaria, Macedonia and Zagreb stock exchanges to create a regional infrastructure for linking securities trading across these three markets.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #067 by Patrick L Young with Artur Fisher.
CEO of the Berlin Stock Exchange until November 2019, Artur Fisher has a strong background in technology. His degree in electronics specializing in High Frequency Communication led to a managing a short-wave transmitter station at the Rhein Main MAC working for the US Signal Assessment Unit and then real time computer systems for Television Studios. That led to Artur becoming the Director managing the Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading floor delivering Products like the DAX Index.
With experience in a UK based mortgage lender, Arthur returned to Germany, specifically Berlin after the wall came down working as a Director of Bankgesellschaft Berlin responsible for implementing trading floors and Risk Management Systems in Berlin, London, Dublin, and Luxemburg.
Then Artur spent 12 productive years as joint CEO of the Berlin Stock Exchange, executive Chairman of Equiduct Ltd. in London and EASDAQ NV in Belgium. Artur was also an MD of the public Law office of the Berlin Senate implementing with a team of lawyer’s regulatory measures associated with the Stock Exchange under EU Law.
A serial board member in various jurisdictions, Artur has also featured regularly on the BBC, Bloomberg and Phoenix Hong Kong News discussing European economic affairs.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #066 by Patrick L Young with Keith Todd.
Software-as-a-Service is integral to Keith Todd’s DNA. Roughly half of his 40-year career has focused on SaaS, spanning global technology businesses from publicly listed and large multinational companies to start-ups.
As TT’s CEO, Keith oversees day-to-day operations, driving the firm’s global growth strategy and execution.
Prior to TT, Keith served as CEO and remains Executive Chairman of KRM22. He was Executive Chairman and CEO of FFastFill, a global derivatives SaaS provider acquired by ION Group, as well as Executive Chairman of ION Agency Trading. His career also includes leadership positions with Marconi Defense Group and ICL plc, among others. He was also Chairman of the UK Broadband Stakeholder Group.
Keith was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England for his services to the telecommunications industry. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #065 by Patrick L Young with Jonathan Bloch.
In 1994 he founded Exchange Data International (EDI) a London based financial data provider. EDI now has over 400 clients across three continents and is based in the UK, USA, India and Morocco employing 500 people.
Jonathan has two law degrees and as part of his LLM at the London School of Economics he studied “Monopolies, Competition and the Law.” He is probably the only data vendor with this speciality under his belt and this has given EDI the confidence to be a disruptive force in the industry.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #064 by Patrick L Young with Tom McMahon.
Tom McMahon is an exchange architect with extensive experience across the gamut of energy, as a director of NYMEX and more recently a welter of Asian initiatives.
From helping launch WTI to Henry Hub and NY Harbor Gasoline, LNG and more recently moving into renewables with Air Carbon Exchange, Tom maintains a fascinating portfolio of interests in Singapore across ETD, OTC, CCP, often, nowadays with Blockchain technology as part of the mix.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #063 by Patrick L Young with Richard Carleton.
As CEO of the Canadian Securities Exchange since July 2011, Richard Carleton has positioned the exchange to take a leading role in the provision of public capital to entrepreneurial companies. Since 2014, the CSE has set a series of records for new listings, capital raised by issuers and trading turnover in the competitive Canadian marketplace. An early advocate for the cannabis industry, CSE is the global exchange leader in the sector. Financial Post Magazine recognised Richard as one of Canada’s “25 Cannabis Industry Power Players.”
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #062 by Patrick L Young with Patrick Young.
Patrick is Director for the New Orleans Mayor’s Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The OGVP is the backbone of the city’s efforts to work with New Orleanians to create peace and prevent gun violence.
Prior to working with the Mayor, he served the New Orleans Business Alliance as Director of Training, managing the STRIVE work readiness training program. Operating across four opportunity centers in the city of New Orleans, Patrick helped employ over 890 formerly incarcerated persons in less than 3 years.
As Founder and Executive Director of “SharpMen” Patrick helped men overcome barriers to employment and was selected as a WK Kellogg Foundation Fellow for his proven leadership and dedication to improving the city of New Orleans.
And now Patrick is the author of his first book, “A WAY UP, Economic Development Post Incarceration” - a strategy toolkit for individuals with barriers in financial literacy and access to resources because of a conviction.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #055 by Patrick L Young with Hamish Adourian.
Hamish joined Sinara in 2006 as a software engineer, building a strong background in the design and development of systems for exchange operations, commodities trading and market data distribution. Having a keen interest in business, he progressed into sales & marketing, bringing to Sinara’s customers his insights into how technology can help solve challenges faced by participants across the financial markets. In 2021, he became responsible for Sinara’s sales and marketing operations, and continues to champion the SinaraTLC initiative, which has resulted in Sinara investing in a new suite of trading lifecycle components for brokers, exchanges and clearing houses.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #060 by Patrick L Young with Catherine McBride.
Catherine McBride is a senior Economist, writing and researching about international trade, agricultural trade and innovation, financial service regulation, corporate governance, competition and public policy. She sits on the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission Member and is a former staffer of the London IEA think tank.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #059 by Patrick L Young with Etan Butler.
Etan Butler is Chairman of Dalmore Group, a FINRA registered national Broker Dealer Investment Bank, founded in 2005. Etan has led the meteoric growth of Dalmore, from traditional full service investment bank to industry leading specialization in assisting companies that seek to raise investment capital from individual investors through the SEC’s Regulation D, Regulation A+ and Regulation CF - with more than 200 successful offerings!
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #058 by Patrick L Young with Trabue Bland.
In December 2021, it was announced that Trabue Bland will oversee all of ICE’s Exchanges. Formerly VP of Regulation for Intercontinental Exchange Inc he has most recently been President of ICE Futures U.S., & also serves on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee.
Prior to joining ICE in 2007, Bland was Legal Counsel to Acting Chairman Walter Lukken at the CFTC. He was also a trial attorney in the Division of Enforcement and an attorney in the Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight having previously served in private practice.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #057 by Patrick L Young with Nigel Feetham.
Nigel Feetham QC is a barrister, the Head of Financial Services and a senior partner of the leading Gibraltar law firm Hassans. He has served on the Decision Making Committee (an independent statutory committee of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission) as well as having been a non-executive member of the Board of the GFSC. He has been actively involved in various strands of fintech and is a leading expert on protected cell company structures and more broadly the insurance sector. Nigel has also published several law books and was formerly a visiting professor of law at a U.K. university.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #056 by Patrick L Young with Alan Swimmer.
Alan Swimmer is MD at Horizon Kinetics LLC responsible for focussed on exchange related investment opportunities. Previously, he was at Environmental Financial Products. Alan has spent over 28 years in various senior roles in institutional ETD including North American Sales Head at JP Morgan, He has held Board of Directors positions at RMG Networks and The Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
17 year Horizon Kinetics LLC veteran James Davolos is Co-Portfolio Manager for the Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL), the Internet Fund as well as several private funds and institutional separate accounts.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #055 by Patrick L Young with Henrik Hasselknippe.
Henrik Hasselknippe is Head of XMarkets, the Xpansiv portfolio of open, transparent exchanges that enable the seamless transaction of renewable energy, carbon, water, and Digital Fuels. Henrik is responsible for the Xpansiv exchange operations, which include CBL, the largest voluntary carbon market; Australian water exchange H20X; the Aviation Carbon Exchange (ACE); and OTX, which provides market access for CSO tickets and renewable fuels.
A former Executive Director for CME Group, leading the company’s Corporate Development division in EMEA, he also served as MD for GreenX, an environmental markets exchange that was owned by a consortium of leading global investment banks, brokers, and trading companies.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #054 by Patrick L Young with Erja Retzén.
Erja Retzén is Senior Managing Director at Nasdaq, Global Listing Services. She works closely with existing and future issuers listed on Nasdaq Nordic and with start and scale up communities, with specific sectoral speciality in mining & exploration, gaming and cleantech. Erja joined Nasdaq in 2005 and previously held a number of manager roles within marketing communications, business excellence and project management. Erja holds a M.Sc. (Eng.) in industrial engineering and management, and has also graduated from Oulu Mining School’s GeoPros PD program.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #053 by Patrick L Young with Julia Streets & Dr Eliza Filby.
Julia Streets, the incomparable founder and CEO of Streets Consulting Ltd. Julia was formerly Global Head of MarComms at NYSE Technologies and previously Instinet Europe.
Julia is also a host of DiverCity Podcast series, mentor, MC, speaker and a stand up comic.
Dr Eliza Filby is a writer, speaker and consultant specializing in ‘Generational Intelligence’ helping companies and services understand generational shifts within politics, society and the workplace. Her work has ranged from VICE media to the Royal Household.
Eliza is the author of Fuelling Gender Diversity: Unlocking the Next Generation Workplace & Mind the Gap: Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce in the Post Pandemic Age and recently launched her own podcast, It’s All Relative.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #052 by Patrick L Young with Fredrik Ekstrom.
Fredrik Ekstrom is President of Nasdaq Stockholm and Head of European Fixed Income and ESG.
Ekström joined the OM Group in 1999 and has held various leading roles rising to President of Nasdaq Clearing and Head of Nasdaq Nordic Fixed Income Exchange. Ekström holds a degree in Economics from Uppsala University.
Ekström sits on the board of the Helsinki and Icelandic Exchange, and is Chairman of the Board for Puro.earth. He is also a member Board of Trustees of SNS, Sweden’s premier venue for fact-based public debate.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #051 by Patrick L Young with Gordon S. Bennett.
Gordon S. Bennett has been MD of Utility Markets at Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. since February 2015. He is a member of the board of ICE Endex and ICE Futures Abu Dhabi and co-chairs the Sustainable Finance Working Group at ICE with responsibility for the sales and business development of the European and Asian natural gas and power, global environmental and global coal portfolios.
Formerly with global energy broker Spectron for 12 years, Gordon worked in a variety of roles rising to CEO. With a degree in chemistry, Gordon is the perfect guest to discuss ICE’s road to a global carbon price…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #050 by Patrick L Young with William Pazos.
William Pazos is Co-founder and MD of AirCarbon, a frictionless carbon exchange offering the lowest fees in the industry, helping the world meet Net Zero.
A native speaker of Spanish, Portuguese, and English, William is a Senior Climate Finance and Renewable Energy Expert with a proven track record developing, financing, and managing projects in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #049 by Patrick L Young with Jos Schmitt.
Jos Schmitt is Co-Founder, President & CEO of the NEO Group of companies, a FinTech organization that includes the NEO Stock Exchange as well as a technology arm providing a multi-asset distribution platform for mutual funds and private offerings.
Prior to the NEO Group, Jos formed together with a number of blue-chip financial institutions the Alpha Group serving as President/CEO, including the Alpha Stock Exchange. This followed his role as EVP Head of the Americas and Global Head of Capital Markets for a global professional services company focused on the financial services industry.
His vast exchange includes President & CEO of a European Derivatives Exchange and Clearing House as well a pan-European Indices Publisher, and Chairman of a Derivatives SRO.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #048 by Patrick L Young with Taraneh Derayati.
Taraneh Derayati is the CEO of Vermiculus Financial Technology, an innovative FinTech company delivering microservices-based solutions for the largest trading and clearing venues globally.
Derayati has vast experience in leading large technical transformation projects for exchanges and clearinghouses. Prior to Vermiculus, Derayati was Head of Sales and responsible for business development and client account management at Cinnober where she led some of the firm’s largest sales before it was acquired by Nasdaq. She continued as VP at Nasdaq Market Technology where she led a major clearing project to replace the entire infrastructure and developed the agile transformation.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #047 by Patrick L Young with Rosa Armesto Plaja.
Rosa Armesto Plaja as Deputy Director-General of the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE), is responsible for coordinating all regulatory policy campaigns and strengthening FESE’s positioning on the key issues and priorities for exchanges in Europe.
While predominantly working for FESE, Rosa spent 4 years as a Member of the Management Team and Head of Public Affairs and Communications of Insurance Europe. Prior to working in Brussels since 2007, Rosa was in Luxembourg with Eurostat (the statistical office of the European Commission).
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #046 by Patrick L Young with Steve Zwick.
A former futures broker and trader in Chicago, nowadays Steve Zwick writes about the economics of sustainable development and the interplay between land-use and climate change -- two subjects he developed a fascination for in a 30-year career that brought him from Chicago's trading pits and led to subsistence farms in rural parts of Kenya, Vietnam, and Brazil.
As a journalist, he has worked for publications as diverse as the Chicago Reader, Fortune, and Time Magazines. He has been twice short-listed for the World Leadership Forum's prestigious Business Journalist of the Year Award. He also produced radio features for Germany's Deutsche Welle Radio and National Public Radio in the United States.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #045 by Patrick L Young with Ivana Gažić
Ivana Gažić is the President of the Management Board of the Zagreb Stock Exchange, the lead developer of the capital market in the region.
Ivana started her career in 1998 at Pliva Plc. where she served until 2003 as a Head of Capital Market Operations going on to work for several local banks. Since May 2010 she has been running the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
She is the President of the Supervisory Board of the SEE LINK Skopje, a legal entity founded in 2014 with the aim to establish regional order routing service between Bulgaria, Macedonia and the Zagreb Stock Exchange. Following the acquisition of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange in late 2015, she is also the president of its Supervisory Board. Ivana is also a member of the Council of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #044 by Patrick L Young with Peter K. Lenardos.
In this #IPOVID episode, we are joined by Peter K. Lenardos, Chief Financial Officer of global market making and prop trading firm OSTC Group Holdings Ltd. Peter also currently sits on the board of directors of both OSTC Group Holdings and NYSE-listed SPAC World Quantum Growth Acquisition Corp. which is chaired by former LSEG CEO Xavier Rolet KBE. Previously, Peter served as CFO & later CEO of Cinnober Financial Technology AB. Prior to Cinnober, he was in investment banking from 2001-2018 and became well known for his views on the global market infrastructure sector.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #043 by Patrick L Young with J. Christopher Giancarlo.
Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the international law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He is also a board director, advisor and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. In addition, Giancarlo is a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a US Central Bank Digital Currency.
Giancarlo’s new book, “CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money,” will be released today, October 26, 2021, by John Wiley & Sons. CryptoDad is an account of his oversight of the world’s first regulated market for Bitcoin derivatives and the coming transformation of financial services.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #042 by Patrick L Young with D’Arcy Rahming Sr.
D’Arcy Rahming Sr is a Northwestern University Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. He is the former COO of the Bahamas International Securities Exchange and former Technical Operations Manager of the Globex Control Center at Reuters America. As a top management consultant, he has helped companies across all industries in the Bahamas and abroad. He is a lecturer and member of the Board of Trustees at the University of the Bahamas, a former columnist for the Tribune and the Nassau Guardian, as well as Treasurer of the Bahamas Olympic Committee.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #041 by Patrick L Young with Shari Noonan.
Shari Noonan is the CEO of Rialto Markets, a Finra registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered ATS focused on private market digital securities. Shari has extensive experience in building and scaling operations & products with Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Instinet and was directly involved in the electronification of the Equities market.
She worked to develop many of the initial products in equities electronic trading, including the first ATS’s, advanced algorithms, and electronic negotiations. Shari received a BS in Accounting from Marquette University and MBA from Columbia University and holds Series 3,7,24,55,63 registrations.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #040 by Patrick L Young with Matthew Chamberlain.
London Metal Exchange (LME) CEO Matthew Chamberlain is responsible for the stewardship of the global base metals trading market having overseen several significant initiatives, including the delivery of integration and build-out following the acquisition of LME by HKEX, re-tooling of the LME’s physical network delivery, and a market-wide discussion on the strategic direction of the Exchange.
Having joined LME in 2012, Chamberlain has a track record of using corporate platforms to promote inclusivity, responsible supply chains, and environmental standards through a multi-stakeholder approach. Most recently, he has leveraged the LME platform to build consensus across the global metals industry on responsible sourcing and environmental sustainability.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #039 by Patrick L Young with Steve Hamilton.
Steven Hamilton joined ICE in July 2019 as Global Head of Financial Derivatives, responsible for the interest rates product lines. Prior to joining ICE, Steve was at digital asset MTF Archax, and COO at LSEG interest rate subsidiary CurveGlobal. Steve worked at the London office of DRW for eight years after joining from the FCA, having begun his career at LIFFE in 2002.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #038 by Patrick L Young.
In an Ask Me Anything format, IPO-VID’s 2nd episode was presented by yours truly, as I discussed my latest book “Victory or Death?: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & the FinTech World.” on the LiveStream.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #037 by Patrick L Young with Dr Robert Barnes.
Dr Robert Barnes is Group Head of Securities Trading at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and CEO of Turquoise, the UK Swiss & European share trading platform majority owned by LSEG that currently links to 20 country and international settlement destinations.
Prior to joining LSEG in 2013, Dr. Barnes worked at UBS in various roles, including as a Managing Director, Equities, and founding CEO of UBS MTF. His industry roles include having served as Chairman of the Securities Trading Committee of the London Investment Banking Association and participated on a wide range of key advisory and policy groups within the financial services sector, including UK FSA’s Capital Markets Senior Practitioner Committee and European Commission’s Clearing and Settlement Expert Group. Robert holds a BA from Harvard, a PhD from Cambridge, and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #036 by Patrick L Young with J. Christopher Giancarlo.
Considered one of “the most influential individuals in financial regulation” Giancarlo also served as a member of the US Financial Stability Oversight Committee, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the international law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He is also a board director, advisor and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. In addition, Giancarlo is a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a US Central Bank Digital Currency. Twitter: GiancarloMKTS
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #035 by Patrick L Young with David Weild IV.
Former Nasdaq Vice Chairman David Weild IV is the “Father of the JOBS Act.” which laid the foundation for crowdfunding and forms of STO. As a leading advocate for public markets, transparency and above all access to capital for SMEs through large corporations, David has been at the forefront of the debate on listing in public markets for decades.
The investment bank he co founded, Weild & Co., is revolutionizing investment banking by harnessing the power of the cloud enabling qualified professionals to work from anywhere with a radically different model enabling proven and independent investment bankers to better serve the growth and middle market economy.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #034 by Patrick L Young with Kenny Polcari.
As Managing Partner at Kace Capital Advisory, Kenny serves wealth managers, incumbent B/D’s and emerging fintech companies alongside his Chief Market Strategist role at billion dollar boutique wealth advisory Slatestone Wealth.
Earlier in his career, Kenny built the U.S. equities business for ICAP having previously run Salomon Brothers NYSE division. Kenny was a NYSE Governor for over a decade.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #033 by Patrick L Young with Flip Pidot.
Flip Pidot is the founder and managing director of Sharp Square Capital, LLC, an alternative investment management firm specializing in event futures. For over a decade, Flip has been involved in the development, operation and evangelism of political event markets, as head of American Civics Exchange, producer of the prediction market content network OldBull.tv, and market curator at PredictIt.
Previously, Flip worked as an investment analyst for Boyar Asset Management and a Certified Fraud Examiner for Arthur Andersen. A graduate of Notre Dame (BA, economics) and UVA's Darden School (MBA), Flip also holds a Series 3 license and is a CFA Charterholder.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #032 by Patrick L Young with Clive Lambert.
Clive is Vice-Chairman of the UK Society of Technical Analysts and European Vice President of IFTA, the International Federation of Technical Analysts. Clive has appeared on CNBC and Reuters TV amongst other media and is widely quoted on newswires.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #031 by Patrick L Young with Lynn Martin.
Martin joined ICE as part of the NYSE Euronext acquisition, where she was CEO of NYSE Liffe US. Having completed considerable integration work, Lynn was named COO of ICE Clear U.S. before being promoted to lead ICE Data Services in July 2015, a role at the cornerstone of ICE’s strategy to provide enhanced trading, valuation and data services to customers around the world
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #030 by Patrick L Young with Max Ganado.
Max Ganado is a semi-mythical figure in Maltese law: his widespread description as a ‘visionary’ hardly does him justice! Beginning as a maritime lawyer, Max hugely developed the Financial Services practices at GanadoAdvocates, the blue riband law firm in the island state. Max has been heavily involved in the drafting of new legislation required for the development of Malta as a financial centre, including the revision of the law relating to trusts and the law on legal persons and foundations, as well as on netting, securitisation, DLT and aviation. He was the Managing Partner of Ganado Advocates for 6 years prior to retiring in December 2020 and becoming a Consultant to the firm.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #029 by Patrick L Young with Christopher Messina.
Christopher is the co-founder and CEO of CrowdFill LLC and an advisor to Digital Gamma, the first prime brokerage service for professional traders to access cryptocurrency markets. He began his fintech career as part of the team that created BrokerTec at Goldman Sachs.
Perhaps appropriately for financial markets, he has an AB in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and an MBA in Finance & Strategy from the Australian Graduate School of Management. A contributing author to Shari'ah Compliant Private Equity: A Primer for the Executive (Euromoney Books, 2010), he has lectured on derivatives, hedge funds, Shar'iah finance and artificial intelligence at law schools and conferences globally.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #028 by Patrick L Young with guest David Weisberger.
CEO and Co-Founder of CoinRoutes, David Weisberger, has over 35 years of experience in market structure, quantitative finance, and trading automation. He started his career at Morgan Stanley where he built their first program and electronic trading systems. Subsequently, he started the non-dollar program trading desk for Salomon Brothers and became the global architect of the firm’s equity trading platform where he designed their first trading algorithm and quantitatively managed central risk book, later running their smart order routing business before joining Two Sigma to develop and run their wholesale market making.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #027 by Patrick L Young with guest Sandra Ro.
Sandra Ro is CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council and a director of Global Digital Finance, having been an early investor in crypto assets.
Formerly with CME Group, she headed their FX & Metals Research & Product Development amongst other functions which included architecting the CME CF Bitcoin pricing indices, leading to CME Bitcoin Futures. Sandra was a founding member of The Linux Foundation–Hyperledger, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance & Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #026 by Patrick L Young with guest Colin Howard.
Colin was an originator of retail information systems, including the World’s first-ever online credit card transaction. Similarly, he transformed City information feeds, first by replacing analogue data with digital feeds and later through founding a pioneering Internet provider that developed the first firewalls. He has worked extensively on the development of exchange technology, notably with UNCTAD and providing smaller Nation support with enabling software. He currently specializes in cyber security and data protection.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #025 by Patrick L Young with guest Michael Mainelli.
Professor Michael Mainelli is a Harvard / TCD qualified accountant and polymath. After an M&A spell with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, he co-founded the City of London think tank Z/Yen, renowned for its Global Financial, Green Finance, and Smart Centres indices.
An Emeritus Professor & Life Fellow of Gresham College, Michael’s distinctions in the City of London alone are too many to list! A Past Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, Michael is currently Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021.
Looking from the City of London across the world, expect a wide-ranging discussion across the sustainable future of financial centres and much more!
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #024 by Patrick L Young with guest Neil Crammond.
Originally trading on the Baltic Exchange in grains and potatoes from 1982, Neil Crammond moved to the opening of the LIFFE floor in the Royal Exchange. Neil has traded as a broker and local trader in London and Chicago as well as being an electronic trading pioneer.
Driven by a desire to educate traders across the world, Neil has studied market abuse from multiple perspectives and consistently challenges exchanges and regulators over-improving market operations. Nowadays he uses the Educate2trade platform as a mission to close the gap between the understanding of retail and professional traders.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #023 by Patrick L Young with guest Daniel Hodson.
Daniel Hodson was formerly the CEO of LIFFE, Deputy CEO of the Nationwide Building Society, and Gresham Professor of Commerce. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Independent Business Network and Chairs “The City For Britain.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #022 by Patrick L Young with guests Magnus Almqvist, Peter Fredriksson, Eric Saraniecki.Magnus Almqvist, Head of Exchange Development at Exberry the new cutting-edge exchange matching engine developer.
Peter Fredriksson the Executive Chairman, majority owner, and co-founder of Norwegian vendor Baymarkets which provides clearing systems for the financial markets.
Eric Saraniecki, Co-Founder and Head of Product, is one of the Founders of Digital Asset.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #021 by Patrick L Young with guest Dr. Richard Smith.
Dr. Richard Smith – Berkeley Mathematician and PhD in System Science – is a fintech entrepreneur and the CEO of The Foundation of the Study of Cycles. Dr. Smith has built a reputation as "The Doctor of Uncertainty" amongst his academic peers and has helped government agencies and Fortune 500 companies (including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson) alike make sense of complex sets of data.
Dr. Smith is an expert in risk management with critical insights that can help empower investors of all levels. Some of Dr. Smith's findings are stunning – like empirical data-driven proof that even the world's best investors, from Warren Buffett to Carl Icahn to David Einhorn and many more, could see their results significantly improved through the use of technology that helps course-correct irrational tendencies and cognitive biases.
Dr. Smith’s software, backed by proprietary algorithms and Nobel prize-winning research, has served more than 25,000 investors and helped steward more than $20 billion in assets.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #020 by Patrick L Young with guest Barney Reynolds.Reynolds is a leading City-based financial services lawyer whose Enhanced Equivalence model for post-Brexit trade has been adopted by the UK Government. A member of the Star Chamber which advised MPs on Brexit, his post-Brexit solutions to a no-deal scenario, published in 'The Art of the No Deal' (Politeia, 2017), has been adopted by several financial institutions. He also co-authored “Managing Euro Risk” (Politeia, 2020) explaining how the Eurozone’s legal structure creates systemic financial risk. Mr. Reynolds led a team drafting an entirely civil and commercial regime for Abu Dhabi’s new financial centre, ADGM, which is the first non-Commonwealth application of the English common law. Barney’s latest publication outlines the legal pathway towards a better UK market post Brexit: UK Must Renounce Damaging Legacy of EU Law
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #019 by Patrick L Young with guest Lee Hodgkinson.
The former boss of Euronext London and SmartPool CEO Lee Hodgkinson began his career at the London Stock Exchange before working for HSBC and BNP Paribas. Lee moved from Euronext to join the dynamic ETD proprietary trading firm OSTC as CEO in April 2018, building the award winning enterprise into a globe-spanning digital champion of training, technology and talent in financial markets.
While OSTC can increasingly enable anyone, anywhere to accelerate their trading career, CEO Lee Hodgkinson will be in one place to discuss his vision and OSTC’s development across the world’s markets via the IPO-VID Livestream.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #018 by Patrick L Young with guest Paul Humphrey.
Paul Humphrey is the CEO of BMLL having previously served as interim CEO of Euronext London and Global Head of FICC at Euronext NV, responsible for the development and execution of strategy in Fixed-income, Rates, Foreign Exchange & Commodity markets. Prior to that, Paul was CEO of Electronic Broking & Information at Tullett Prebon, determining the group’s strategy for electronic broking, application development and information sales.
Paul has been Global Head of eCommerce with ABN Amro, Business & Strategy Consultant with Thomson Reuters, Head of Fixed-income with Van der Moolen, Head of Fixed-income sales & eCommerce with SLK/Goldman Sachs and MD of European Fixed-income with ICAP. In 2019 he established his own consultancy business Humphrey House Advisors Ltd., helping financial institutions, boards and fintech firms on their corporate strategy.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #017 by Patrick L Young with guest Modwenna Rees-Mogg
Modwenna Rees-Mogg has 30 years of experience working in corporate finance, business angel investment, and venture capital. She started the portal www.AngelNews.co.uk in 2003 with £1,000 of start-up capital.
AngelNews Group has expanded into assisting senior executives to build second careers in the start and early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems through The Pluralists Club along with private investor conferences including the Great British Private Investor Summit and the VCT & EIS Investor Forum. Modwenna is a NED of quoted Albion Tech and General VCT and Asset Match. She was a Co-Founder of rating agency www.CrowdRating.co.uk, which was sold to NextFin in 2019.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #016 by Patrick L Young with guest Will Mitting.
Will Mitting founded Acuiti in February 2019. to bring greater transparency to operations across global capital markets. Will was previously Managing Director of FOW and Global Investor Group at Euromoney International Investor plc. His previous experience includes launching the first magazine publishing business in the Northern region of Malawi.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #015 by Patrick L Young with guest Mark Makepeace
Mark Makepeace was founding Chief Executive of FTSE International turning a small UK start-up into one of the largest and most successful global index providers - and a household name brand in Britain. Mark arrived in the City at the London Stock Exchange as a clerk to co-ordinate Big Bang - and never left.
At the beginning of 2019, he stepped down as Chief Executive of FTSE Russell and from his role as Executive Director responsible for the LSEG’s information services division. He is currently a non-executive director of SGX and Tadawul, the Stock Exchange of Saudi Arabia. In November 2020 he published his first book, FTSE: The Inside Story.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #014 by Patrick L Young with guest Sharon Constançon.The Chairman of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the UK, Sharon Constançon delivers high-level board evaluations, mentoring, and training through her Genius companies. Having cut her teeth running forex treasury management companies, Sharon is an active figure in the City of London who recently co-organized a showing of the film of the historic Rivonia Trial “Life Is Wonderful” at the Old Bailey in London. Sharon will be discussing making boards work and ensuring due process in everything from forex risk to surviving carjacking…
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #013 by Patrick L Young with guest Dominic Frisby (“mercurially witty” – the Spectator) is the world’s only financial writer and comedian. MoneyWeek’s main commentator on gold, commodities, currencies, and cryptocurrencies. Dominic’s books are Bitcoin: the Future of Money? Life After The State and Daylight Robbery – the past, present, and future of tax based on his hit Edinburgh Festival Show “Let's Talk About Tax.” He also co-wrote the documentary Four Horsemen and his show Dominic Frisby's Financial Gameshow won rave reviews.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #012 by Patrick L Young with guests Kevin Kennedy and Scott Nations.
Kevin Kennedy is Senior Vice President and Head of U.S. Options in Nasdaq’s Global Trading & Market Services business, responsible for leading all six of Nasdaq’s U.S. Options exchanges. Kevin is a former independent market maker who became a VP in Goldman Sachs managing the firm's Philadelphia operations where Kevin served on the Board of Governors of the PHLX prior to its acquisition.
Scott Nations is the President of Nations Indexes, Inc. the world’s leading independent developer of volatility and option enhanced indexes and investment vehicles. Scott is a bestselling author and his Nations Indexes has created a number of products, most notably in the context of this week’s IPO-VID Livestream: the methodology used in the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index (ticker symbol VOLQ). Futures on VOLQ launched on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on October 5, 2020. Prior to founding Nations Indexes, Scott was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and was a market maker and floor manager for a leading index options trading firm.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #011 by Patrick L Young with guest Ronan Ryan, President & co-founder of IEX Group.
Ronan is responsible for strategy and decision-making related to all of IEX’s client-facing businesses. As part of that role, he focuses on building and strengthening relationships with external stakeholders, including broker-dealer members, institutional investors, and companies.
Prior to co-founding IEX, Ronan was the Head of the Electronic Trading Strategy at RBC Capital Markets, where he used his prior experience in network, hardware, and co-location technology to generate client-facing solutions. Previously, Ronan was the Head of Financial Services Development at Switch and Data and Head of DMA and Co-location solutions at BT Radianz, a leading network solutions provider.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #010 by Patrick L Young with guest Alasdair Haynes, CEO, Aquis Exchange PLC.
Exchange entrepreneur Alasdair Haynes founded AIM-listed Aquis Exchange PLC in 2012. Operating a pan-European MTF platform covering stocks from 14 European countries while also licensing its exchange software to other markets.
Having recently acquired the NEX Exchange, now Aquis Stock Exchange, Alasdair will be discussing a panoply of issues around his unique business model and the journey to creating value in a new exchange.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #009 by Patrick L Young with guest Murray Gunn, Head of Global Research at Elliott Wave International.
As a fund manager in global bonds, currencies, and stocks, he worked for Standard Life Investments and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
He then joined HSBC Bank as Head of Technical Analysis. Murray is the author of Trading Regime Analysis (Wiley, 2009).
You can also read his commentary in Global Market Perspective, Interest Rates Pro Services, and Currency Pro Services, and on deflation.com.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #008 by Patrick L Young with guest Andy Ross, the CEO of Curve Global the LSEG’s interest rate marketplace which he joined in 2016 having previously been an MD of Morgan Stanley: Global Head of Listed Electronic Execution & European Head of Derivatives Clearing.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #007 by Patrick L Young with guest Jake Pugh who is back in markets after a hiatus in the EU's hub where he served as an MEP from July 2019 until the UK left the EU on January 31st this year.
With comprehensive knowledge of capital markets and market infrastructure, Jake has worked across asset classes and the end-to-end business model through a variety of advisory roles. He specializes in new business initiatives, business design, the development of target operating models, and market engagement.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #006 by Patrick L Young with guest Alex J. Matturri who stepped down as CEO of the world's largest index provider, S&P Dow Jones Indices in June 2020 after a lengthy career in the index world, including as SVP Global Equity Index Management at Northern Trust Global Investments.
He has also worked for Bank of New York, DWS Investment Management Americas, and GSAM Strategist Portfolios amongst other investment management firms. Alex was a pioneer in the use of index futures and options in portfolio management from 1987 onwards.
Alex is a Member of The New York Society of Security Analysts, Inc., and the International Association For Quantitative Finance.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #005 by Patrick L Young with guest Bjørn Sibbern, President of Nasdaq in Europe.
In this role, he works closely across all of Nasdaq’s European Markets teams to deepen the relationships between Nasdaq and institutional and main street investors, broker-dealers, and regulators in the region.
With over a decade of experience at Nasdaq, Bjørn has emerged as an influential leader within Nasdaq and the broader industry. Prior to his current role as President, European Markets, he was Executive Vice President for Global Information Services (GIS), based in New York City. He has also previously led Nasdaq’s Global Commodities business, while also serving as President of the Nasdaq Copenhagen Exchange.
Sibbern brings experience from both sides of the transaction business as he has held leading positions at Nordic broker firms and covered diverse leading positions at Nasdaq´s Nordic exchanges.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #004 by Patrick L Young with guest Martin Watkins who secured the #1 position in the Exchange Invest sublist of "Eminence grises" in the “The world’s most influential people in market structure”.
Martin has held high-profile executive management and advisory roles in London, New York, Paris, Brussels, and Frankfurt across the spectrum of financial market infrastructure.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #003 by Patrick L Young with guest Peter Randall who led Chi-X Europe as it upended the European equity marketplace. As funder and CEO Peter created one of the top 5 trading venues in Europe before moving on to Equiduct which he turned into Europe's fastest-growing trading platform in 2012. With a wealth of experience across financial markets, nowadays Peter is President of the blockchain vendor SETL.
Credited with revolutionizing the equity exchange market in Europe through the establishment of Chi-X Europe Ltd, Peter led the company’s growth as founder and CEO, from an unknown multilateral trading facility to become one of the top 5 trading venues in Europe by volumes traded. Subsequently, Peter was appointed CEO of Equiduct, where he restructured the business and turned it into the fastest-growing trading platform in Europe in 2012. Prior to Equiduct and Chi-X, Peter was COO at Instinet Europe Ltd and Executive Director of FIX Protocol Ltd.
Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #002 by Patrick L Young with guest Christopher Messina, a global markets expert who works across the frontiers of AI fintech as CEO of Crowdfill, holds advisory roles in crypto for prime brokers and sits on the board of a major Nickel miner.
Chris brings decades of deep-dive experience across finance and investing to the second IPO Video show.
First Beta IPO-VID Livestream with a wide-ranging discussion of life and markets in the COVID19 era with myself, entrepreneur, fintech pioneer and investor, Patrick L. Young.