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Summer Playlist 2023 Episode 2 | Arjun Murti, Former Head of Equity Research on Energy Sector at Goldman Sachs, Partner at Veriten, & Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack Jul 29, 2023

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Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Arjun Murti. Arjun is the Former Head of Equity Research on the Energy Sector at Goldman Sachs, a Partner at Veriten, and the publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely catches up with Arjun midway through the year to get his thoughts on where we are in the energy super vol cycle.

Summer Playlist 2023 Episode 1 | Guy Turner, Founder & CEO, Trove Research Jul 22, 2023

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We kick off our Summer Playlist with Guy Turner, Founder & CEO of Trove Research. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Guy to discuss what’s happening in the voluntary carbon markets and the research that Guy and his team are doing at Trove to help us push past the rhetoric and better understand the reality of how carbon offsets are being used.

Days of Futures Past Episode 10 | Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies Jul 15, 2023

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On the final installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Josh Crumb, Founder & CEO of Abaxx Technologies, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Host David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss his vision for building smarter markets and why the future of smarter markets begins with launching a futures exchange and clearinghouse in Singapore.

Days of Futures Past Episode 9 | Parag Khanna, Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner, FutureMap Jul 08, 2023

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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Parag Khanna into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Parag is Founder & CEO of Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap. He is the author of seven books including Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization and The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century.

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Parag to explore the influence of Asia and the new Asian values on markets, as well as to discuss the markets we’ll need to build an increasingly connected future.

Days of Futures Past Episode 8 | Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters Jul 01, 2023

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We continue our Days of Futures Past series this week with Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andy to explore the history, the crises, and the scandals of the metals markets and the London Metal Exchange (LME). Together, they discuss what lessons we can learn from these histories in order to build better and smarter metals markets for the energy transition.

Days of Futures Past Episode 7 | Adi Imsirovic, Director at Surrey Clean Energy and Former Global Head of Oil Trading at Gazprom Marketing & Trading Jun 24, 2023

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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Adi Imsirovic into the studio. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Adi to discuss the history of the Brent crude oil market and speculate on its future.

Adi Imsirovic is Director at Surrey Clean Energy, Former Global Head of Oil Trading at Gazprom Marketing & Trading, and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. He is the author of Trading and Price Discovery for Crude Oils: Growth and Development of International Oil Markets and the editor of Brent Crude Oil: Genesis and Development of the World’s Most Important Oil Benchmark.

Days of Futures Past Episode 6 | Dan McElduff and Joe Raia, Abaxx Exchange Jun 17, 2023

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We continue our Days of Futures Past series this week with two guests from Abaxx Exchange: Dan McElduff and Joe Raia. Dan is President, Head of Strategy & Development and Joe is Chief Commercial Officer at Abaxx Exchange.

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Dan and Joe to discuss the launch of ClearPort at the NYMEX in 2002, which brought the backing of the clearinghouse to the global OTC markets and today clears transactions from 1,800 listed contracts across multiple asset classes.

Days of Futures Past Episode 5 | Walt Lukken, President & CEO, Futures Industry Association and Former Acting Chairman & Commissioner, CFTC Jun 10, 2023

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On this week’s installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Walt Lukken back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Walt is the President & CEO of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) and Former Acting Chairman & Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Walt to turn back the clocks to Lukken's time at the CFTC. Throughout the episode, they cover the economic globalization of the early 2000s and its role in the growth of the exchange-traded derivatives market, the lasting influence of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), Enron's collapse and its impact on energy market regulation, and Lukken's advice for future policymakers.

Days of Futures Past Episode 4 | Michel Marks, Former Chairman, NYMEX Jun 03, 2023

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We continue our Days of Futures Past series with Michel Marks, the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Michel to discuss the creation of the modern energy futures markets.

Days of Futures Past Episode 3 | Dave Howson and Jos Schmitt, Cboe May 27, 2023

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This week on our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome Dave Howson and Jos Schmitt into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dave Howson is EVP & Global President at Cboe Global Markets and Jos Schmitt is President & CEO of Cboe Canada and SVP & Global Head of Listings for Cboe Global Markets.

SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Dave and Jos to discuss the history of – and lessons from – the Chicago Board Options Exchange as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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