Alessandro Cocco is vice president of the Financial Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Speaking at our MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity virtual event in July 2020, Cocco said the word that connects climate change and finance is “risk.”
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Bevon Joseph: Closing the Opportunity Gap – MarketsWiki Education World of Opportunity
Bevon Joseph, along with his wife Elois, founded the Greenwood Project to expose high achieving students of color on Chicago’s south and west sides to career opportunities in the financial industry.
Loh Boon Chye: Singapore Exchange Expands as Asia Market Grows
Since FIA Boca didn’t take place this March, John Lothian News posed our questions to Loh Boon Chye, the CEO of SGX, from afar, and he responded in this video shot in mid-March.
Chris Hehmeyer – Bitcoin, Bakkt and Beyond
Hehmeyer Trading and Investments shut down its CTA and CPO and IB business at the end of the year, along with its Hehmeyer Cryptocurrency Index Fund. The market maker is now focused on cryptocurrencies, bitcoin in particular. Chris Hehmeyer told John Lothian News that...
Jim Downs: Connamara – and the Markets – a Year Later
Connamara’s CEO Jim Downs discusses what’s new at the company since we spoke with him at FIA Expo last year. It turns out it’s a lot.
Walt Lukken: FIA Moves Forward After Boca Cancellation
After FIA Boca 2020 was cancelled because of the Coronavirus, JLN found some alternative ways to put together the video interviews we had scheduled. In this one, with Walt Lukken, we spoke via phone with Walt and the FIA taped their side of the interview in his...
Eileen Flaherty’s Perilous Road to Success
Eileen T. Flaherty is a longtime legal and compliance professional who is currently managing director of The Global Capital Group Ltd., a legal and regulatory consulting firm. She is also the author of a forthcoming novel entitled The Perilous Step.
A Renaissance in clearing – John Davidson of the OCC
John Davidson, chief executive officer of the OCC, discussed how the clearer is revamping its entire system, replacing its legacy clearing technology with the new Renaissance initiative, which will operate in the public cloud.
The transition to data solutions and commercial hedging tools: CQG’s Ryan Moroney
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES At FIA Expo 2019, CQG President Ryan Moroney spoke with JLN about CQG's evolution from a products-based company to a "solutions-based" company 40 years in, and how its values- and ethics-based culture...
Swaps proficiency requirements and other initiatives: the NFA’s Tom Sexton
JLN FIA EXPO 2019 INDUSTRY LEADER SERIES The National Futures Association (NFA)'s swaps proficiency requirements will be implemented in January 2020. Tom Sexton, NFA's president and CEO, spoke with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about the work that went...
Bringing Efficiency to the Raw Materials Markets: MaterialsXchange’s Mike Wisnefski
Mike Wisnefski, the CEO and co-founder of MaterialsXchange, spoke to John Lothian News at FIA Expo 2019 about bringing transparency and efficiency to the raw materials markets.
Risk Management, Analytics and Parallel Processing: Tom Watson of Hanweck
Tom Watson, head of sales at Hanweck, sat down with JLN at FIA Expo to talk about Hanweck’s branching out into international markets and margin analytics and how GPU-based computing is changing the industry landscape.
Metadata, AI, and monitoring global risks: Predata’s Hazem Dawani
At FIA Expo 2019, Predata CEO Hazem Dawani explained metadata and how his company uses it to monitor the economic, social and security risks of more than 180 countries. Metadata allows the company to alert customers as to patterns and anomalous behavior early on that later lead to major events or shifts in online interests.
Exchanges Powered By the Cloud: Connamara Systems’ Jim Downs at FIA Expo 2019
Jim Downs, founder and CEO of Connamara Systems, talked with JLN at FIA Expo 2019 about how the cloud can help minimize the impact of technology on the ability for entrepreneurs to start new exchanges.
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