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Three leading tech CEO’s convened to discuss “The Future of Work,” a conversation recorded live as part of the NYSE’s inaugural Digital Leaders Series. Stewart Butterfield, Jennifer Tejada, and Aaron Levie shared with Betty Liu how their companies are navigating the new normal of the coronavirus pandemic. The NYSE-listed companies -- Box, PagerDuty, and Slack -- have adapted to a fully remote envi...

Former U.S. Navy SEAL & SEALFIT Founder Mark Divine joined the podcast to discuss his latest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams. Mark is a man on-call to many companies helping their executives hone the skills to overcome tough challenges.  His unique career -- from CPA to SEAL Commander to serial entrepreneur -- taught him to combine military and business...

Chris Giancarlo’s voice resonates with experience and authority. He didn’t stand still when his term as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission came to end last year. He’s immersed himself in a wide range of initiatives built on his decades of service in government and FinTech, which he explains in this episode. But he’s also keeping a close eye on his old beat, and doesn’t like...

“Exchange Invest” delivers PLY’s pith, developed over decades immersed in markets, around the world each morning, cutting through the clutter in the “parish” of global bourses. Patrick’s take is a must read for exchange industry leaders and back benchers alike. He joined the pod from his perch in Malta to break down the markets’ response to COVID-19, his career arc from auto racing to fintech, and...

How have your spending habits changed since the pandemic struck? Fewer in-person dips or swipes of your credit card? More e-commerce? Are these short-term changes temporary, or the beginning of a payments sea change? Margaret Keane, CEO of Synchrony, joins us to explore the future of payments, leading a disparate workforce through difficult times, and how Synchrony is innovating and diversifying t...

How will climate impact the future of the $3.8 trillion municipal bond market? Chris Hartshorn, risQ’s Chief Commercial Officer, joined Josh and ICE Data Services President Lynn Martin to discuss the technology behind ICE Climate Risk, a tool which combines cutting-edge climate science, catastrophe modelling, and geospatial machine learning technology from risQ with ICE’s pricing and reference dat...

May 10, 2020 marks the 20th Anniversary of Intercontinental Exchange, the company that Jeff Sprecher and his colleagues transformed from an entrepreneurial startup into what he terms a “massively scalable network and database company” that, two decades on, operating 12 exchanges, 6 clearinghouses, a data services business, and a wide array of trading tools, technologies and platforms built on that...

The tumult in the oil markets is not just the result of a coronavirus-driven collapse in demand, but go to the shifting tectonic plates that hold up the entire global economy. One of the world’s foremost oil experts, Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of IHS Market and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, joined Josh and ICE’s Head of Oil Sales, Jeff Barbuto, for a frank discussion about the changing fundamen...

Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and the former long-term congressman from Pennsylvania’s 8th District, joined us as part of Intercontinental Exchange’s ongoing series on the latest information and perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic. Jim shared how the 1,000+ biotech companies, academic institutions, state biotech centers, and other organizations...

The coffee bean is one of the commodities traded on ICE’s futures exchange, where everyone from growers to refiners, to shippers and retailers, buy and sell coffee futures to manage their price risk. Augustine Sedgewick, author of COFFEELAND: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, joined us from his remote outpost to talk about on the history of coffee, the development of the w...

Ira Coleman, Chairman of McDermott Will & Emery, joins the podcast to take listeners through the inner workings of closing a deal at one of the world’s leading law firms. He shares insights on the legal issues facing healthcare, why the profession must evolve to meet the needs of the client, and how someone’s Uber rating can make or break their chance to work at the leading edge of law.

The economic rigor mortis from COVID-19 has reduced the global demand for oil by more than 30%. The result has oil producers and refiners scrambling to find tanks to store their products and sent the price of a barrel plunging in some of the largest single day drops in history. Mike Wittner, ICE’s Head of Oil Market Research, joined the podcast to discuss how companies and investors are managing t...

Professor John Barry, author of “THE GREAT INFLUENZA: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” joined us from New Orleans to outline the importance of innovation, honesty, and trust in navigating a pandemic. After publishing his watershed book, John helped develop an earlier playbook for mitigating pandemics, and shared his insights on the pandemic a century ago, and how Covid-19 might res...

Kevin O’Leary, Chairman of O’Shares Investments & Shark Tank investor, is socially distancing, but isn’t pulling his punches. He shares a bird’s eye view from his South Beach Condo on how the world changed in real time; the companies and countries best positioned to survive and thrive; and why his life will never go back to the old normal. He also breaks down the market fundamentals and strategies...

With markets cresting following three consecutive days of gains, NYSE President Stacey Cunningham sat down for a virtual fireside chat with Marie-Josée Kravis and members of the Economic Club of New York. With the Trading Floor temporarily closed, they discussed how, even in a fully electronic environment, the New York Stock Exchange market model helps public companies, traders, and investors navi...

In our first ever remote podcast, NYSE Group Chief Operating Officer Michael Blaugrund Skyped in from his secure remote location to break down the decision to temporarily close the NYSE Trading Floor and the impact that the COVID-19 Pandemic will have on the markets and trading. Michael explains that, long before social distancing, the Exchange has been preparing for this sort of emergency conting...

Leading cybersecurity experts recently convened at the New York Stock Exchange to learn from each other about good digital hygiene. The conference, part of the Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV) Cyber: Prepare, Prevent, Mitigate, Restore series, was hosted by the Travelers Institute’s President Joan Woodward. Joan told us how Travelers Institute is educating the government and public on cybercrime pro...

Coronavirus, the 2020 election cycle, and volatility be damned, Jim Cramer knows there is always a Bull Market somewhere. He launched CNBC’s Mad Money 15 years ago this week, with the mission to “come out every night to help level the playing field, so you can try to have a fighting chance against the big boys, the fat-cat hedge fund managers who think they own the market.” He sat down to reflect...

Of the thousands of firms listed on the NYSE, only 26 can have a single letter ticker symbol, and Jacobs (NYSE: J) has one of them. The new ticker symbol and new name (it was formerly Jacobs Engineering Group) reflects the firm’s transformation under its Chair & CEO, Steve Demetriou. He was a recent guest of Betty Liu on Slice, part of ICE’s Insights Platform, to discuss how Jacobs reimagined its...

Get the robot in here, STAT! Surgery is going digital by leveraging artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and big data to bring cutting edge care to patients across the globe. David Fischel is CEO of Stereotaxis (NYSEAMERICAN:STXS), one of the companies leading this sea change. He dropped by the NYSE to talk about the company’s advancements, including bringing Genesis, a new robotic magnetic navi...

You may be shocked that, even in our digital age, 90% of businesses still rely on paper checks. Rene Lacerte started Bill.com to disrupt that by unchaining data from the filing cabinet. Bill.com’s cloud-based software allows businesses, regardless of their technical savvy, to automate the back office and focus on serving their customers. He joined the podcast on the day of Bill.com’s IPO to explai...

Adam Higginbotham last year published the New York Time Best Seller, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster, now available in paperback. Based on over a decade of work, Adam’s writing reveals what it was like to be in the Reactor 4 Control Room and life in Pripyat on April 26, 1986. The conversation explores why the truth was so hard to find, the cause of...

The rebellious Italian Sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) helped shape the futurism movement and today’s guest, Aryeh Bourkoff, is nothing if not a futurist. The Founder and CEO of LionTree runs an independent investment bank focused on the digital economy and creative industries. Last week, we turned our NYSE Library over to Aryeh, also the host of KindredCast, to tape an episode with our own...

This show was first released on KindredCast’s own feed, but, thanks to our friends at KindredMedia, we’re re-releasing it to share with our listeners. As part of a special two-episode arc, LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff interviewed our own Stacey Cunningham. You’ve heard her on our show before, but never quite like this, now nearly two years on the job. Tune in next week as we turn the microphones ar...

About 30% of natural gas in the U.S. passes through pipelines owned by Williams, which is undergoing a transformation under President & CEO Alan Armstrong, who was appointed to the top job in 2011. Alan was a recent guest of Betty Liu on Slice, part of ICE’s Insights Platform, where she he talked to him about the role of technology in the energy sector and what it takes to lead an evolving company...