Inside the ICE House

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...

Nancy Mellard, Executive VP and General Counsel for CBIZ’s Benefits & Insurance Services Division, joins the podcast to shares her lessons learned and future goals as National Leader of CBIZ’s Women Advantage and the importance of companies to become change agents. In 2007, the Chairman of CBIZ charged Nancy with starting CBIZ Women’s Advantage, a program to recruit, retain and develop female tale...

Carl Quintanilla, anchor of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, sits down Inside the ICE House to recount his week at the PyongChang Olympics, the debut of new Fed Chair Jay Powell, and Comcast’s aggressive bid for Sky Sports. Marking the sixth anniversary of broadcasting his show from Post 9 at the New York Stock Exchange, Carl traces the arc of his career, tells tales the last five Olympics he’s covere...

Kenny Polcari, Managing Director for O’Neill Securities, ventures Inside the ICE House to give listeners a behind-the-scenes look at how the capital markets function from his unique perch on the NYSE Trading Floor. Over four decades, Kenny has had a front row seat for the transformation of the NYSE, from paper slips to today’s hi-speed trading, and a life’s worth of memorable moments both high and...

Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 Dow Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing (RCR), steps Inside the ICE House to break down his recent triumph at the Daytona 500 and the next chapter for the storied legacy #3, written 20 years after Dale Earnhardt won the Great American Race in the same ride. Host Josh King and Austin talk about the business of NASCAR and its unique link between fans, sponsors, and...

Joe Plumeri, former Chairman and CEO of Willis Group and currently Vice Chairman of First Data Corp. (NYSE:FDC), and the bestselling author of The Power of Being Yourself, got his start at a small Wall Street brokerage that grew into what is today Citigroup, beginning a career in financial services now well into its fifth decade. Now, Joe is facing what may be his biggest challenge as Executive Ch...

You can catch Tom Farley, president of the New York Stock Exchange, nearly every day standing aside a CEO whose shares are about to go public on the NYSE as “The Opening Bell” rings in another day of trading. In this premiere episode of the ICE House podcast, Tom reflects on what happens on the famous floor between the opening and closing bells, how the volatility in the markets stocks up to histo...