Inside the ICE House

Butch Cassidy, a.k.a. Robert Leroy Parker, lived during a transitional period for America as westward expansion, industrialization, and corporate interests converged. At the twilight of the Old West sits Cassidy -- the subject of Charles Leerhsen’s new book -- whose perennial target, the Overland Limited operated by the Union Pacific Railroad, made for an ultimately fleeting assault on the march of progress. Leerhsen skillfully separates the fascinating facts of real life from the legend of the silver screen.

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What will happen as parts of the country slowly reopen while others shut? It is impossible to know. What is clear to Jon Maier, Global X’s Chief Investment Officer, is the economy has been permanently transformed, with innovative business models and sectors distilling years of growth into months. Jon joined the podcast to kick off the second half of an unprecedented market year, breaking down the impact of COVID-19 on some of the sectors covered by his firm’s “Beyond Ordinary ETFs.” 

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NYSE Executive Floor Governor and IMC Designated Market Maker Jay Woods brings his three decades of experience and technical analysis to the podcast this week. We cover the state of the market and how trading has evolved from open outcry to embracing the technology that beckoned no-fee trading and platforms like Robinhood. Jay brings us in the NYSE building for the recent closing and reopening of the Trading Floor, how the DMM role has evolved, and the impact of the democratization of trading access.

Three leading tech CEO’s convened to discuss “The Future of Work,” a conversation recorded live as part of the NYSE’s inaugural Digital Leaders Series. Stewart Butterfield, Jennifer Tejada, and Aaron Levie shared with Betty Liu how their companies are navigating the new normal of the coronavirus pandemic. The NYSE-listed companies -- Box, PagerDuty, and Slack -- have adapted to a fully remote environment, prepared for a future decentralized workplace, and are looking to use the disruption of traditional work to build a more inclusive workforce moving forward.

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Former U.S. Navy SEAL & SEALFIT Founder Mark Divine joined the podcast to discuss his latest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams. Mark is a man on-call to many companies helping their executives hone the skills to overcome tough challenges.  His unique career -- from CPA to SEAL Commander to serial entrepreneur -- taught him to combine military and business training to benefit any team, from the battlefield to the boardroom.

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Chris Giancarlo’s voice resonates with experience and authority. He didn’t stand still when his term as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission came to end last year. He’s immersed himself in a wide range of initiatives built on his decades of service in government and FinTech, which he explains in this episode. But he’s also keeping a close eye on his old beat, and doesn’t like what he sees from European regulators tinkering with the complex plumbing of central counterparty clearing that underpins the global markets. “Now,” he says, “is not the time to change the rules on CCP resolution.”

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“Exchange Invest” delivers PLY’s pith, developed over decades immersed in markets, around the world each morning, cutting through the clutter in the “parish” of global bourses. Patrick’s take is a must read for exchange industry leaders and back benchers alike. He joined the pod from his perch in Malta to break down the markets’ response to COVID-19, his career arc from auto racing to fintech, and his most recent book, “Victory or Death? Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & the FinTech World.”

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How have your spending habits changed since the pandemic struck? Fewer in-person dips or swipes of your credit card? More e-commerce? Are these short-term changes temporary, or the beginning of a payments sea change? Margaret Keane, CEO of Synchrony, joins us to explore the future of payments, leading a disparate workforce through difficult times, and how Synchrony is innovating and diversifying to meet the needs of its clients, today and in the future.

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How will climate impact the future of the $3.8 trillion municipal bond market? Chris Hartshorn, risQ’s Chief Commercial Officer, joined Josh and ICE Data Services President Lynn Martin to discuss the technology behind ICE Climate Risk, a tool which combines cutting-edge climate science, catastrophe modelling, and geospatial machine learning technology from risQ with ICE’s pricing and reference data to quantitively measure climate risk in financial instruments employed to fund state and local government projects, airports, schools, hospitals and more.  

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May 10, 2020 marks the 20th Anniversary of Intercontinental Exchange, the company that Jeff Sprecher and his colleagues transformed from an entrepreneurial startup into what he terms a “massively scalable network and database company” that, two decades on, operating 12 exchanges, 6 clearinghouses, a data services business, and a wide array of trading tools, technologies and platforms built on that stack. As ICE enters its third decade, Jeff shares the vision for what lies ahead.