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Rules for CEOs, Senior Managers, Interns and Bob’s Kids – 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...
The Growing Value of Data – 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...
Lessons from My Crypto Career Risk – Tim McCourt, CME Group
"[In July 2000, my boss] said, 'Tim, tomorrow, you're going to start on the equity derivatives desk at JP Morgan.' I was like, 'Fantastic. I'm super excited.' I go home, no one really has a laptop, I got my first cell phone two...
Avoiding Spoofing Shortfalls – Renato Mariotti, Thompson Coburn
Renato Mariotti prosecuted Michael Coscia for spoofing as a federal prosecutor, ran for Illinois attorney general and can frequently be seen on cable television commenting on current events. So when he talks about spoofing and...
Cognitive Flexibility in Finance – 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...
Discussing “InfoSec” – Mike Phillips, VSEC
"How many small or medium business can survive a $3.5 million hit? When small and medium business get hit, they typically go out of business. When the big ones get hit, know what they do? They change their names." If it is...
How to Spot Financial Fraud – John Hague
"As an auditor, if I start to look at recurring transactions and I ask the question, 'What's the economic purpose for this transaction?' and I don't get the right answer, I keep asking that question." Before Barings Bank went...
Why Fundamentals are Important – Dan Basse, AgResource
“If you want to be a really good trader… understand the cash markets to the best of your ability. Crawl inside of them so you know what’s going on.” After years of market focus shifting away from fundamental analysis, Dan Basse,...
Listen Both Ways Before Crossing! – Bill Weldon, Weldon Resources
"I had this happen to me. I came in in the morning. A wonderful colleague, a great person, says, 'Billy, how are you doing?' 'I'm doing great.' 'Really? Tell your face.'" What is the authentic you? How do you act under pressure?...
How to Take The Wheel and Drive Your Own Career Path – Jessica Darmoni, The Title Connection
"One of the best pieces of advice I could share is get involved with an industry activity." Networking is essential for any career, but after a handshake and an exchange of business cards, what do you do? Do you follow up with...
Transitioning Between Startups and Large Companies – Adam Honoré, CME Group
"One of the things you need to understand about yourself is how you manage your personal finances. A lot of people don't talk about that. But if you want the flexibility to go to a startup, you can't do that with two car...
You Actually Do Understand Crypto – Gary DeWaal, Katten Muchin Rosenman
"The most common mistake people make is not realizing that blockchain technology... is another app. It's another way of doing something - it's another way of communicating information." Gary DeWaal, special counsel for Katten...
The Challenges of Crypto Market Trade Surveillance – 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...
From Corporate Red Tape to Liberated Entrepreneur – 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." ...
How to Survive the Financial Media Markets for 30+ Years – 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...
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