Parag Khanna, Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha and Founder & Managing Partner, FutureMap

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 […]

Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters

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 […]

Dan McElduff and Joe Raia, Abaxx Exchange

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 […]

Michel Marks, Former Chairman, NYMEX

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. Download full transcript → Hosted By

John Lothian, Founder & Publisher of John Lothian News

In the second installment of our Days of Futures Past series, we welcome John Lothian into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. John is Executive Chairman at John J. Lothian & Company and Founder & Publisher of John Lothian News. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with John to discuss the people and times that created the modern […]

Scenes from the FT Live Commodities Global Summit 2023

This week, we present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from last month’s FT Live Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely attended the summit and worked with the Financial Times to record interviews from this gathering of commodity experts, practitioners, and trading houses. The Financial Times’ Natural Resources […]

Ranting on the inadequacies of our systems and riffing on ideas for how to solve them …

SmarterMarkets™ brings together the icons and entrepreneurs of technology, commodities and finance to examine how market systems can be redesigned and improved to address the most important challenges of our time.