Markets

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...

Seeing Opportunity Everywhere in the Market – JJ Kinahan

JJ Kinahan, TD Ameritrade “I don’t care what job you have, I don’t care where you are at, you basically hate 25 percent of what you do. Twenty-five percent of your job you’d probably do for free. It’s fun, it’s great, it’s why you get up in the morning. So, now you...

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...

Next-Generation Product Development – Drew Shields

Drew Shields, Trading Technologies "There will always be someone as smart or smarter than you and you have no control over that. The only thing you have control over is whether you have more drive, more passion than others." As chief technology officer at Trading...

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...

Technology: the Center of the (Financial) World – Rob D’Arco

Rob D'Arco, Rival Systems "It's an exciting time for technology in the trading industry. Never before has technology been so instrumental across all aspects of the financial markets." When Rob D'Arco was tasked with the design of an options trading platform 15 years...

Value Investing: Office Space and Associated Risks – Christian Domin

Christian Domin, GlenStar Properties "When you're first starting out, you want to keep your lease as short-term as possible and mitigate the risk. If there is a regulatory change, a change in your small, three-person partnership, or any other change, you're going to...

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...

Today’s Exchanges: Think Global; Act Global – Andrew Lowenthal

Andrew Lowenthal, CBOE "We are constantly looking for new tools that we can bring into the fold here at CBOE to grow our products and customer base." Andy Lowenthal is part of a rare breed - a "lifer." After finishing college, he took a job with CBOE as a price...

Leo Melamed’s History of Chicago Markets (Part 2)

Leo Melamed Competition is a driving force for innovation. While most of the United States saw New York City as the center of the financial world, pioneers of the fledgling Chicago markets saw the financial world as "us" and "them". The city that started with the...

Leo Melamed’s History of Chicago Markets (Part 1)

Leo Melamed Competition is a driving force for innovation. While most of the United States saw New York City as the center of the financial world, pioneers of the fledgling Chicago markets saw the financial world as "us" and "them". The city that started with the...

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