The Daly Post Podcast Rob Daly

The Daly Post sits down with Ron Quaranta, executive director of the trade-advocacy group Wall Street Bitcoin Alliance, and discusses the major issues facing institutional investors who want to add exposure to the cryptocurrency.

In this episode Rob interviews author and former Turquoise chief executive Eli Lederman on his first novel, High Finance. Set in a fictitious investment bank, the story follows 10 days in the life of exotics derivatives trader Jerry Klein on the eve of the 2008 credit crisis as Klein becomes one of the firm's newest minted managing directors. How much truth can be told in fiction? Listen to the podcast to find out.

Most new hedge funds rather spend time readying their trading strategies for production than setting up their IT infrastructure. With the continued growth of hosted IT offerings, rolling out the necessary infrastructure has never been faster. In this episode, Rob discusses this trend with Chris Grandi, a founder and managing director at Abacus Group LLC, and how hedge funds can avoid common pitfalls in implementing these deployments.

Formed just prior to the May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Technology Advisory Committee is tasked to keep the CFTC up to speed on the latest technologies affecting the markets it regulates. In this episode, Rob speaks with Progress CTO John Bates about his experience as a committee member.

Can one of the most regulated industries leverage the benefits of social media? In this episode Rob poses this question, and more, to High Frequency Trading Review’s Mike O’Hara, Let’s Talk FX’s Jon Vollemaere and MoneyScience’s Jacob Bettany who share their personal experiences running their respective social media sites for high frequency traders, forex traders as well as quants and academics.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) expects financial services firms to regulatory reporting using legal entity identifiers (LEIs) in mid-July. Likewise, the European Financial Stability Board (FSB) hopes to receive the necessary blessing from the G20 for its efforts in June. To discuss industry preparedness, The Daly Post Podcast sits down with Graeme Austin, founder and CEO of FS Benchmarks, a consultancy that specializes in research and operations benchmarking. Austin is also the CEO of International Securities Association for Trade Communications Europe (ISI TC Europe).