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Peter McMurtrie , a partner at West Monroe , stops by the show to discuss the evolution of AI in the insurance industry. Peter says the industry is currently focused on agentic AI and workflow orchestration, and he highlights key challenges such as data quality, governance and workforce readiness. Peter urges firms to avoid getting caught up in "AI Theater" by having a clear business cas...

Ken Hullings , EVP Client Success - Institution Channel at LPL Financial , stops by the show to discuss the state of the financial advisory industry and outline key findings from LPL's Institution Benchmark Report . The report analyzes growth trends across more than 1,000 banks and credit unions on the LPL platform, representing over 7,000 financial representatives. This year's findings...

It's time to end our fantastic week at the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference . And who better to help us bring this incredible week to a close than Nicholas Garrow , the Chief Strategy Officer at Trading Technologies (TT).  Garrow shares his insights on 24/7 trading and discusses the bifurcation of interest in prediction markets between financial and non-fi...

JB Mackenzie , Vice President and General Manager, Futures and Prediction Markets at Robinhood , makes a triumphant return to our FIA Boca lineup. During our conversation at last year's conference, Mackenzie predicted that prediction markets would be a hot topic at this year's Boca. Guess what: JB was right. During this year's chat on the sidelines of the Futures Industry Associatio...

Day 3 at the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference kicks off with a conversation with Gregory Yu , Head of Markets at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) . Yu highlights HKEX's expanded focus on retail participation, noting a 20-25% increase in weekly stock options volume and plans to launch 20 more retail-friendly options. Yu provides an update on...

Prediction markets have been a hot topic at the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference ... and that has been music to the ears of Fateen Sharaby , Head of Index Derivatives at Bloomberg .  Sharaby joins the show to discuss the work Bloomberg is doing to source data for prediction markets. He also explains how Bloomberg is expanding into new products like credit index...

Day Two of our coverage from the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference continues with this conversation with Euronext Chief Diversification Officer Camille Beudin . Beudin shares his insights on some of the key topics at FIA Boca, including 24/7 trading, tokenization, and prediction markets.  Beudin also outlines how Euronext's strategy focuses on three main ob...

Day Two of our coverage from the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference kicks off with this conversation with Meaghan Dugan from Cboe . Dugan expands on Cboe's announcement here in Boca that it is launching a new derivative-based product relevant to prediction markets. Dugan explains how the new event contracts expand on the binary outcome possibilities of &quot...

If you think policy moves by the Trump Administration have throttled the market for renewable energy certificates and other clean energy marlets, you are mistaken. Day Two of our coverage from the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference continues with this conversation with IncubEx CEO Dan Scarbrough , who explains that despite regulatory challenges, environmental com...

After missing last year's FIA Boca, CoinFund President Chris Perkins is back this year and he is pumped up about many of the issues that are hot topics here at the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference .  Perhaps what's most exciting for Perkins is that this year's Boca seems to represent a 'dance party,' whereby TradFi firms appear to be se...

Our coverage from the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference keeps rolling along as we catch up with Bill Gulya , Managing Director and Head of the Americas at SGX Group . This was Gulya's second consecutive year joining the show in Boca, where he shared his insights on numerous topics, including: SGX's goal to round out its multi-asset approach with the ad...

Day One of our coverage from the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference concludes with this conversation with Michael Blaugrund , Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE). Blaugrund outlines ICE's focus on building next-generation infrastructure for trading, clearing, settlement and capital formation. Blaugrund also discusses: T...

To kickoff our week at the Futures Industry Association's Global Cleared Markets Conference , I connected with NinjaTrader Chief Executive Officer Marty Franchi . We covered a lot of ground during our coversation, including: NinjaTrader's efforts to serve retail traders as product offerings continue to expand How prediction markets are shifting the industry agenda What being acquired by...

In what is an annual tradition for this podcast, Futures Industry Association President and CEO Walt Lukken stops by the show to preview what's in store at the annual Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. The agenda in Boca is always packed with fireside chats, speeches and panel discussions featuring some of the most influential leaders in the derivatives industry. Lukken...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the better part of the last year, you know tariffs implemented by the Trump administration have wreaked havoc on global trade. And now that the US Supreme Court declared a large swath of those tariffs illegal, I've invited an expert onto this show to help make sense of this tariff mess. Marc Busch is a professor at Georgetown University’s School of F...

Intercontinental Exchange is launching the Reddit Signals and Sentiment Tool . The tool is designed to offer investors actionable insights about topics and trends that are prominent on Reddit. Considering the rise of Reddit, and the high profile that platform has enjoyed among traders since the pandemic, this collaboration makes perfect sense. Chris Edmonds , the President of Fixed Income and Data...

Regulatory changes and shifting market dynamics are shining a spotlight on repo clearing. Amid all the changes, Yama Darriet , Head of OTC and Repo Expansion at Euronext , stops by the show to discuss the factors that are driving more firms to turn to repo clearing. Darriet also outlines Euronext's Repo Expansion Initiative , which aims to boost market access, liquidity provision and collater...

With rising energy prices making headlines, Amperon Co-Founder and CEO Sean Kelly stops by the show to discuss the strategies utilities, policymakers and traders are employing to tackle market volatility. Kelly highlights the significant demand growth in Texas and notes the impact of PJM's recent auction results. Kelly emphasizes the need for a diverse energy mix, including nuclear, solar, an...

Matt Judge , European Head of Sales for Singapore Exchange (SGX) , helps power our road trip to the International Derivatives Expo (IDX) in London across the finish line. Matt touts SGX's continued effort to boost its emerging market currency offerings by sharing an update on the recent launch of Brazilian Real futures, in partnership with B3. Matt also highlights SGX's success with T+1...

Our road trip to the International Derivatives Expo continues with this conversation with Chris Edmonds , President of Fixed Income and Data Services at Intercontinental Exchange . Chris highlights how markets have handled recent volatility, citing the impact of the Israel-Iran conflict and US tariff policies. Edmonds noted that the industry has managed volatility well, with processing reaching 1....

Fresh off his panel at the International Derivatives Expo in London, Derek Sammann , Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Commodities Markets at CME Group , joins the show to discuss how markets are handling recent volatility events. CME Group has seen record volumes in energy markets and has also seen growth across agricultural and metals, with significant increases in EMEA and APAC region...

Day Two of International Derivatives Expo kicks off with a conversation featuring Chris Rhodes , President of ICE Futures Europe . Fresh off his appearance on the Exchange Leaders panel, Rhodes joins the show to outline how ICE Futures Europe continues to foster innovation amid a landscape of regulatory divergence. Rhodes explains how ICE leverages its global footprint to deliver products that mee...

Alun Green , EVP and Managing Director of Futures and Options at Trading Technologies , joins the show from the International Derivatives Expo in London to discuss the growing importance of integrating technologies like AI and cloud computing as markets adjust to new variables like the boom in energy demand. Green outlines the challenges of 24/7 trading, emphasizing the need for real-time risk man...

Iouri Saroukhanov , the Head of European Derivatives at Cboe Global Markets , checks in from the International Derivatives Expo to provide an update on the the trading landscape for options and other derivatives. Saroukhanov shared some of the highlights from a panel discussion he participated in at IDX about the Future of Options Markets in Europe. To that end, Saroukhanov also outlines some of t...

Charlotte Alliot , the Head of Financial Derivatives at Euronext , joins the show from the sidelines of the International Derivatives Expo in London to discuss trends that are shaping European markets. Alliot highlights Euronext's growth in equity options and explains the cultural differences in European derivatives trading. Alliot outlines Euronext's initiatives to enhance interest in r...