Kevin Darby, Blue Trading Systems Don’t over-engineer it. There’s a huge tendency, especially for technical people, to make up complexity. The problems Kevin Darby, managing partner at Blue Trading Systems, encounters as a fintech vendor are very different from...

  Oliver Albers, Nasdaq When I started in this business, data was very, very uncool. Trust me. Data is not uncool any longer. Consider that every minute there are more than 12 million texts sent and more than 4.3 million YouTube videos watched. It is estimated...

  Bob Fitzsimmons, Wedbush Understand the implications, the ramifications of what you do – what it does downstream and what it does upstream. Understand the whole process. What do “Patton,” “The Right Stuff” and “Goodfellas” have in common? They’re all used by...

  Jaclyn Bouchard - S&P Global “By assessing the underlying issues of these three broad categories, a company can get a better understanding of the holistic risks that can affect their bottom line.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity...

  Kevin McPartland, Greenwich Associates “I’m not a particularly good investor. I don’t know if my own portfolio is set up the way it should be. But I can certainly explain to you exactly how an equity trade comes from a pension fund and makes its way all the way...

  Mike Beller, Thesys Technologies “I met some people working on financial technology. They were really cool and interesting people solving hard problems and I wanted to join them. That was how I made my career decision.” In this video from MarketsWiki...

  Maura Cunningham, Rock The Street, Wall Street “How many times have you heard people, particularly girls, say, ‘I hate math’? Have you ever heard people say, ‘I hate English’?” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in New York,...

  Dave Weisberger, ViableMkts “The important thing to understand about crypto is it’s polymorphic… meaning that the same thing can be an investment,… it can be a commodity… or it can be a currency.” Did you know that when bitcoin was trading at its highs in...

  Gary DeWaal - Katten Muchin Rosenman “When the government seizes a boat or a house or a car, they auction it off. When the government seizes illegal narcotics – cocaine, heroin you name it – they don’t auction it off to the American people. So, to me, when they...

  Bruce Morris, Tabb Group “I met this guy on a job interview – he wanted to sell ads for us. I said, ‘Show me what magazine you’re with.’ He said, ‘Well it’s not a magazine, it’s a website.” It’s November of 1994… I said, ‘What’s a website?” and he showed me the...

  Ralf Roth, Quantitative Brokers “Growth … really comes from change. So if you look at when I was in the fixed income business and people were using HP calculators to interpolate their yields – if we’d stuck with that, it would not have driven us forward.” Ralf...

  Bailey Kessing, Trillium “So what type of trouble can crazy, 85-year-old Aunt Zelda – who’s now a honed market manipulator – get into in the crypto world?” Do you have an aunt named Zelda? Do you own cryptocurrency? Ever had an awkward conversation at...