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On this week’s installment of our Summer Playlist, we welcome Russell Robertson back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Russell is Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse in Singapore.

 

David Greely sits down with Russell to discuss his perspective on India's evolving role in the gold and silver markets and its growing importance to the global commodities derivatives industry. They also talk about the developing new network of markets and trading corridors stretching from India to the Middle East, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore – and the opportunities it creates.

 

We continue our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Sunil Kashyap back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Sunil is Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore.

 

David Greely sits down with Sunil to discuss the surge of new developments and new initiatives being announced in Asia's gold and silver markets including the growth in trading activity of Abaxx Exchange’s gold and silver futures markets in Singapore, the Hong Kong Exchange reviving its gold futures market in Hong Kong, and Singapore pursuing an OTC gold clearing initiative to create a Loco Singapore market.

 

This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Josh Qiao into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Josh is CEO of Yongan International Financial SG. David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss how Yongan is providing access to China’s futures and options markets for international traders, why it chose to become a clearing member of Abaxx Exchange, and the opportunities this creates in the commodities futures markets.

Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Mark Lewis, Partner and Managing Director at Climate Finance Partners LLC. David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the recently released European Commission's EU ETS review proposals and what they'll mean for the outlook for the EU ETS and other carbon markets.

This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Arjun Murti back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss the lessons learned from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the risk of a super spike should the conflict continue, and the key themes he'll be following in the second half of 2026.

On the second installment of our Summer Playlist this week, we welcome Thomas McMahon, Joe Raia, and Russell Robertson into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Thomas is Co-Founder of Abaxx Technologies; Joe and Russell are Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse.

 

David Greely sits down with them in Singapore to discuss their experiences in building new commodities futures markets from first trades to commercial adoption over the past five decades – and the opportunities they see ahead.

 

We kick off our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Samantha Dart back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Samantha is Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs. David Greely sits down with Samantha to discuss the state of the energy markets given the ongoing conflict in Iran, the risks posed by the weather this summer and next winter, and how the increasing demand for electricity is shaping power markets, metals demand, and inflation.

This week, we close out our How to Raise Your Agent series with Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull. David Greely sits down with Matthew to discuss how chat won the interface war in financial services, how AI is unlocking a trove of chat data for enterprise use, and why governance will be the key to who wins in a world of messaging and AI agents.

This week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Tom Redman into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Tom is "The Data Doc" and President of Data Quality Solutions. David Greely sits down with Tom to discuss how, in his view, AI is data, how much of our data is not fit for purpose, and how the solution begins with keeping the focus on the customer – and getting people and their AI agents to see themselves as part of a system in which they are both the data creators and customers.

We continue our How to Raise Your Agent series this week with Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition and AI Professor at UC Berkeley. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Joyce to discuss how AI is rewiring work, what we can learn from past tech transformations, and what's different this time from the perspective of a business practitioner, tech investor, and educator.