Nasdaq's TotalMarkets

Our third podcast features former Nasdaq Chairman and CEO Bob Greifeld, who has recently published Market Mover, Lessons from a Decade of Change at Nasdaq, a memoir covering his time at the helm of the world’s most innovative exchange. They discuss some of the pivotal moments in Bob’s career, how the past decades of change have shaped the markets, and how Bob views the markets today.

James Angel is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He specializes in the market structure and regulation of global financial markets, and he has visited over 70 financial exchanges around the world. Last year he published Retail Investors Get a Sweet Deal: The Cost of a SIP of Stock Market Data, a paper that explained the value of market data to Main Street investors. He and Nasdaq Chief Economist Phil Mackintosh discuss the state of market structure and regulation, the Access Fee Pilot, market data, and how markets could be better.

Nasdaq Chief Economist Phil Macktintosh is joined by Justin Schack, Managing Director, Rosenblatt Securities. They discuss current U.S. equity market structure and how it arrived at its current state, and what can be done to make things better. They also discuss Nasdaq’s TotalMarkets agenda for improving market structure and proposals such as clarifying “Professional” and “Non-Professional” data user definitions, the possible suspension of Unlisted Trading Privileges, and other proposals. 

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