Financial Markets iNSiGHTS

In this show, podcast host Helen Disney is in conversation with Richard Mundell, Chief Product Officer at TRG Screen, to discuss what the film The Matrix has in common with market data subscription management? Two seemingly very different topics that Richard helps us to unpack.

In this episode, our podcast host George Aliferis meets Alan Vear, Director of Brickendon Consulting, to discuss the $200 or $300 trillion question of the transition to IBOR.

In this episode Helen Disney is in conversation with Shyam Duraiswami, Chief Strategy Officer at the deep tech company QPQ. They discuss the challenges of scaling blockchains, why the Ethereum network is struggling to cope with the explosion in demand for DeFi, NFT and gaming and what is being done to address the challenges of creating bigger siloes and lack of interoperability between blockchain...

In this episode, we speak to Jannah Patchay, an Originating Member of the Digital Pound Foundation about why the UK might need a digital pound, what is a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and what are its benefits - as well as its possible risks - for us as consumers and citizens.

In episode 8, podcast host Jannah Patchay speaks to Peter Lawrey, CEO of Chronicle Software,  about the IKEA effect - a fascinating phenomenon whereby consumers place a (sometimes disproportionately) higher value on things that they have either made themselves, or to which they have contributed towards making. They’ll be discussing how this relates to trading technology and asking how the IKEA eff...

We are all swimming in data but what are the biggest challenges companies face when they try to implement or upgrade their data processes? What are the problems with scaling existing business information systems and why does so much useful data get wasted?  In Episode 7, as part of our special series on data insights, Helen Disney speaks to 3Forge CEO Robert Cooke about the challenges of getting a...

In episode 6, the first in our new series on financial markets data insights, podcast guest host Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull, and guest speaker Mark Woolfenden, Managing Director of Euromoney Trade Data, discuss how to leapfrog your legacy technology systems when it comes to market reference data and explain why data and workflow need to go hand in hand in order to give firms an edge in capit...

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are undoubtedly a hot topic. Not a week goes by without news from at least one central bank of their latest plans for tests, pilots, and live trials. In the UK, Rishi Sunak's announcement on 19th April this year of a joint HMT-Bank of England taskforce to "coordinate exploratory work on a potential central bank digital currency", has led to a range of reacti...

The first half of 2021 has seen an explosion of interest around non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as everyone from musicians and artists to sports celebrities have piled in. Attention-grabbing headlines pop up on almost a weekly basis. We’ve seen the world’s first tokenised digital house (on Mars, no less, and sold for USD500,000), the Kings of Leon have released a new album as a collection of NFTs, and...

SPACs or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies have been around for many years but recently they have started garnering major attention as well-known investors leading SPACs have been raising record amounts of money. Some analysts worry the SPAC boom is one of multiple signs of a market bubble. So why exactly have SPACs become such a hot trend and will this boom within a boom really benefit invest...

In January 2021, a videogames company few people had ever heard of made history for one of the largest share price increases in stock market history. Apart from making headlines around the world, the GameStop story - and how it played out - has thrown up some key questions about the future of financial markets infrastructure. How did it happen and why? Episode 2, brought to you by The Realization...

In Episode 1 of the Financial Markets Insights podcast brought to you from The Realization Group, podcast host Helen Disney interviews special guest and financial services innovation expert, Michael Cooper about the rise of the TechFins.