Inside the ICE House

Roger Ibbotson, Chairman and CIO of Zebra Capital Management, visits to talk how his research into behavioral finance reveals the stock market has hot and cold securities. He believes that identifying those cool stocks will provides better returns over the long-term. His firm has partnered with the NYSE to create the NYSE Zebra Edge Index to employ his strategy and help people plan a financial fut...

Vince Birley, CEO of Vident Financial, cofounded Vident to implement his Principled Reasoning Investment Philosophy. He has put that theory to work developing rules-based smart indexes to create an investment method to account for a company’s values in its valuation.   To support Hanna’s Homes, the Ethiopian orphanage mentioned in the episode purchase Hanna’s Coffee here: .http://aromaridge.com/co...

Jessica Lappin, President of the Alliance for Downtown New York, just released a report hot off the presses envisioning how to revitalize the Stock Exchange District, the historic birthplace of the global capitalism. Since 9/11, when security priorities closed the streets, the crossroads lost some of its soul, but the future is bright if Lappin can build on the support she’s galvanized to revitali...

Tim Byun, the Chief Regulatory Officer of OKCOIN, stepped Inside the ICE House to offer his thoughts on where crypto is headed and forecast the regulatory and compliance hurdles arising as the market grows. Today, there are nearly 200 cryptocoin exchanges located around the world and over 4,500 types of cryptocoin. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are seeing a dramatic hike: over $2 billion in new IC...

LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, has been called “the world’s most important number.” Tim Bowler, President of ICE Benchmark Administration, is responsible for managing ICE LIBOR, along with a slew of other benchmarks including ICE Swap Rate, and the London Bullion Market Association Gold and Silver Prices. Widely used across the globe, LIBOR’s rates underpin between $200-$300 trillion of...

Smartsheet’s CFO Jennifer Ceran and SVP of Product Gene Farrell, visited the ICE House just minutes after the company started trading on the NYSE to share their IPO journey and what it takes for a company to transition into the public markets. Built on a rock solid culture, Smartsheet has deployed a cloud-based platform that encourages the same type of innovative collaboration for its clients thro...

Michael Schlein, President and CEO of Accion, visits the ICE House to discussing how fintech, microlending, and seed investment is opening up access to capital and lifting millions across the globe out of poverty.  Accion’s mission for the last fifty years has been to give people the financial tools they need to improve their lives and Michael sees fintech as the pathway to an inclusive financial...

Dr. Adam Back, the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream and the inventor of hashcash, visits the ICE House to discuss his career and the future of the block chain and financial cryptography. Over the last year, we've seen steep run-ups in the price of cryptocurrencies, often followed by precipitous falls. In spite of this extreme volatility, the crypto markets continues to grow and some estimate it c...

John Doerr, the legendary Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist, has penned what he calls his “love letter to the future.” It’s called “Measure What Matters” and chronicles how everyone from Bill Gates and Bono to the entrepreneurs of a new pizza startup can accelerate their ambitions through “OKRs” or “Objectives and Key Results.” John weaves the stories from his fabled career into practical mentori...

Cervantes once said, “Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water,” and few speak the truth about oil with as much life experience as Ed Morse, Global Head of Commodities Research at Citigroup. With over 45 years of experience in energy markets and international affairs, Ed joins the ICE House to bring us on a journey of how oil moves markets. The price of crude oil and the fundamentals tha...

Mark Penn, author of Microtrends Squared, The New Small Forces Driving the Big Disruptions Today, joins the podcast to breakdown the trends that are driving the modern world.  Microtrends and countertrends often make up only one percent of the American public, but create massive social movements capable of changing the commercial, political and social landscapes.  Inside the ICE House: https://www...

Entrepreneurs have a vision for the future. They have the ability to create a movement that radically changes business models and consumer behavior. In this episode, we invite the NYSE’s Jose Cobos back into the ICE House with Tyler Sloat, CFO of our newest tech listing, Zuora, a company that is driving the subscription economy. Coming off a rigorous road show and a successful IPO, Tyler discusses...

Navigating the evolution from being a private company to a public one is never easy. Tech companies from Silicon Valley have their own set of challenges. A trusted guide through the minefield is Jose Cobos, the NYSE’s West Coast-based Head of Technology Capital Markets. A former Navy SEAL and investment banker, Jose leads the Exchange’s efforts to help the next generation of innovators raise capit...

More than one out of every five dollars under professional management in the United States is now being invested according to a sustainable, responsible, and impact investing or SRI strategy. Our guest today, Richard Cea, is leading UBS’s first foray in the U.S. ETF market with a couple ETFs aimed at SRI investors with the launch of InsightShares Patriotic Employers ETF and InsightShares LGBT Empl...

Big Show visited earlier this week to ring the Opening Bell and sat down Inside the ICE House to talk about his efforts to return to the ring in time for WrestleMania 34. Now a Giant with Abs, we talk about the lifestyle changes he made to make sure he will entertain us for years to come. From [19:30-27:30] Show talks about his reaction to Bill Simmon’s documentary ‘Andre the Giant’ by HBO Sports,...

There were a lot of eyes watching as the New York Stock Exchange listed Spotify, the eagerly anticipated introduction of the music platform to the public markets, using a new mechanism called the NYSE Direct Floor Listing. Here with us today on the ICE House is the NYSE’s Global Head of Listings John Tuttle, to break down the Spotify’s direct listing experience and how it all came together.   Insi...

In the early 2000s, Intercontinental Exchange Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher introduced electrification and transparency to the trading of energy commodities. In quick succession, he took on the futures, credit, and equities markets, building ICE from a little known exchange that he paid a dollar for to a global Fortune 500 Company. He joins the podcast to talk about how he did it, and the future...

Tonight at Citi Field in Queens, it’s Opening Day of the 2018 Season, the 57th for the New York Mets against the St. Louis Cardinals. Building a major league team, season after season, bears striking similarities to trading stocks on the floor of the NYSE, a mix of analytics and human judgement to make the right moves at the right time. The team’s architect, Sandy Alderson comes Inside the ICE Hou...

A true conversation around the water cooler. Doug Brown, founder & CEO of AquaVenture Holding (NYSE: WAAS), joins the podcast on World Water Day to geek out on all things H2O, from crises facing California, Cape Town and Flint, to new purification technologies that could render the five gallon jug obsolete and allow us to reuse all of the water that flows through our tap. For more information: wor...

John Lothian, one of the legendary chroniclers of the futures markets as founder and chairman of John Lothian News, joins the podcast from the International Futures Industry Conference to talk the business of futures and commodities.  He describes his newest project, CryptoMarketsWiki , that he announced at FIA Boca. John also reflects on the evolution of trading from open outcry to the blockchain...

Michael Casey, co-author of The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, joins ICE Founder, Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher for a conversation recorded at the International Futures Industry Conference. A former Wall Street Journal journalist covering global economics and finance, Casey’s written five books and is now a special advisor at the MIT Media Lab, where he works on appli...

Walt Lukken, CEO of the Futures Industry Association, joins the podcast to talk about the future of futures, cryptocurrency, and blockchain from the annual International Futures Industry Conference. FIA brings financial leaders and innovators together to exchange ideas to craft the global derivatives marketplace that underpins the world’s financial activity. Walt also discusses his experience guid...

Bruce Bond, Co-founder and CEO of Innovator Capital Management, first made his mark in the early 2000s with PowerShares and now he is back in the game. One of the genuine pioneers of the ETF industry joins the podcast to explain why he thinks that “there is so much more that can be done” in ETFs and how he is going to do it. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Jon Steinberg, Founder and CEO of Cheddar, Inc., founded a media company with its anchor studio on the NYSE Trading Floor just two years ago to reach a new generation of business and technology savvy viewers. Now a Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for two years running, Jon explains how he has broken the classic media mold to reach millions of viewers and what the future is for digital conte...