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The State of Today’s Markets: Issues and Opportunities – Larry Tabb
Larry Tabb - TABB Group “This industry is a meritocracy. If you can do a better job than the next guy, then you'll get rewarded more than the next guy. That’s a good thing. In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in New York, Larry Tabb,...
Everyone Can’t Be the Best – Duncan Niederauer
Duncan Niederauer - Former NYSE Euronext CEO If you had to name one thing that is most highly correlated with successful people, what would it be? Frankly, a few years ago, I didn’t have a great answer for it. So, the more I thought about it, I came to the conclusion...
Mathematical Statistics and Data Science at KTH: What Are We Working On and Why? – Pierre Nyquisk
Pierre Nyquist, Visiting Assistant Professor, KTH “If we think about the quantitative side, I probably don’t have to convince you that probability theory and mathematical statistics are both fundamental in this area. You cannot really do quantitative finance without...
From Sports To Business In An International Arena – Veronica Augsustsson
Veronica Augustsson - Cinnober “The financial ecosystem is created by business people and it will be changed by technology. It is with technology that we will make a safer world, a better world, a more efficient world that we can trust even more.” Veronica Augustsson,...
Attention To Detail: High Performance Requires Hard Work – Rolf Andersson
Rolf Andersson, Goldman Sachs “I can’t stress enough the importance of being really good at software in one form or another, whether it’s managing, running projects or sponsoring projects.” Rolf Andersson of Goldman Sachs is a software architect, and he says that...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blockchain But Were Afraid to Ask – Johan Toll
Johan Toll, Nasdaq “Instead of having the financial economy we see today with a lot of intermediaries, local custodians and global banks, this could all be replaced by a peer-to-peer community. It’s a massive revolution that probably will happen to our financial...
The Origin and Global Leader of Transaction Technology – Peter Fredriksson
Peter Fredriksson, Baymarkets “The market has moved from transaction to a lot of other parts of the transaction chain – to pre-trade, post-trade, clearing and post-clearing.” Peter Fredriksson, CEO of Baymarkets, says OM, the company that eventually became Nasdaq OMX,...
Exchanges: Drivers and Beneficiaries of Change – Adena Friedman
Adena Friedman, Nasdaq "Today, exchanges are, at their core, technology companies as well as marketplaces." Adena Friedman loves working with interns. After all, she began her career as an intern at Nasdaq a number of years ago. Now, she serves as the exchange group's...
Futures Industry AI and Machine Learning – Tayloe Draughon
Tayloe Draughon, Neurensic "As you seek worlds of opportunity, look for areas in which there are problems, because if somebody is having problems, there are going to be opportunities." Recent advancements in technology have led to a monstrous spike in trades and trade...
The Implied Job Descriptions in Finance – Peter Nabicht
Peter Nabicht, 12Sided Technology "Markets are an ultra-complex socio-technical system. That is a thing; Google it. There are three examples regularly given of such systems - huge cities, the space shuttle program, and financial markets. That's how complex and...
The New Normal and the Five Tips – Walt Lukken
Walt Lukken, FIA "We're in a very exciting industry. Fundamentally, the demand for risk management in our financial markets to service the real economy is not going to disappear. It may change on the margins and people are going to leave the business, but it is going...
The Crystal Ball – Ed Boyle
Ed Boyle, BOX Options Exchange "The successful firms in this industry looked at the history, saw the change coming, and reacted by getting ahead of it." Ed Boyle believes that everyone has access to a crystal ball. The trick, however, is to make sure it is tuned to...
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