Practical Bravery: EVOLVING MARKETS!
An episode of the The Possibility Club podcast, hosted by always possible, titled "Practical Bravery: EVOLVING MARKETS!" was published on January 15, 2024 and runs 38 minutes.
January 15, 2024 ·38m · The Possibility Club
Episode Description
The Possibility Club podcast: Practical Bravery - EVOLVING MARKETS!
How is technology reshaping the landscape of global finance?
What role do ethics play in the evolution of digital communication platforms?
In what ways can resilience and innovation drive progress during crises?
How will emerging technologies like Bitcoin impact the future of trading and energy resources?
What lessons can leaders learn from the transformation of traditional trading floors to encrypted, digital platforms?
So many questions, so little time.
In this episode of The Possibility Club, we delve into the world of global financial services, banking, and fintech with a focus on bravery and ethics.
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Brad Levy via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brad-levy-30667851/
Brad Levy biography at Santander
Symphony
"The industry needs a platform that is secure, ie encrypted, and then highly curated."
"Not everybody can be on Symphony, it's a walled garden but ultimately inside that walled garden people decide who they communicate with. So it's very open inside, but it's encrypted."
Brad Levy via Symphony Leadership page
https://symphony.com/company/leadership/
"Symphony is an enabler of remote work."
"I started with no computers really in an industry and I ended up with a Pentium chip in 1995 that was super-fast, and I just stayed with that."
"Electronic trading in 95 didn't exist, so it was a very physical job, you sat on trading floors, people smoked cigarettes, literally, on trading floors in the 80s and 90s. That really started to fade. Trading floors used to be raucous, and then it started to get more online and fifteen years later in 2010 you go to a trading floor, there's a lot of people but it really is quiet."
Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
"There's a lot more trading and risk activity happening now, it's just more dispersed and diffused."
"I've seen that thirty year arc and it's just been fascinating."
AIM (AOL) software via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_(software)
"To build thing you need capital. Usually you need funding to do anything. Then you need some form of physical energy. I think of finance, tech and energy as these base areas, and then base industries that all other industries need to deal with."
Bitcoin via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
"A bitcoin is code, compute, and cooling. Literally. Write code, run the computer and then cool it. That's why Quebec is big, because it's got a lot of hydro-power and water."
Freedom Tower - One World Trade Center via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center
Markit via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markit
September 11th attacks via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
Sandy (Hurricane Sandy) via Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy
"I've just seen all these things — and communication literally winds up being the thing you need at that moment. Not having your cellphone battery, or being down on text on 9/11."
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This episode was recorded in September 2023
Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible
Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts
For more visit www.alwayspossible.co.uk
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