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Setting Course 2026 Episode 1 | Rob Dannenberg, Former Senior Official, CIA

This week, we kick off our new series Setting Course 2026 by welcoming Former Senior CIA Official Rob Dannenberg back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Rob to discuss the inflection point being created by the Russian war in Ukraine, the capture by the United States of Venezuelan President Maduro, and the potential implications of this widening of the range of acceptable behavior by great powers as we move into 2026.

Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review | Part 2

We begin the new year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

 

This week, we’re continuing to revisit the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define 2025. 

 

It was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.

 

We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part Two of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

 

Our guests in order of appearance:

 

Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies

SM229 – 5.3.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

 

Steve Lowe – Strategic Advisor for Precious Metals, Abaxx and Former Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Base and Precious Metals, Scotiabank 

SM231 – 5.17.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

 

Sunil Kashyap – Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore

SM224 – 3.29.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

 

Wade Brennan – CEO & Co-Founder, Kilo Capital

SM225 – 4.5.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

 

Thom McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies

SM235 – 6.14.2025 – Gold for the 21st Century

 

Albert Cheng – CEO, Singapore Bullion Market Association (SBMA)

SM240 – 7.19.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

 

Ian Forester – Head of Product, Abaxx Technologies

SM254 – 10.25.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Riley Hughes – Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic

SM258 – 11.22.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Carrie Jaquith – Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies

SM257 – 11.15.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Leah Wald – Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies

SM261 – 12.13.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Walt Lukken – President & CEO, FIA

SM262 – 12.20.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Josh Crumb – Founder & CEO, Abaxx Technologies

SM253 – 10.18.2025 – Re-engineering Tokenization

 

Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review | Part 1

We close out the year on SmarterMarkets™ with Part One of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

 

2025 has been a big year full of big months here at Abaxx and at SmarterMarkets™, and we’re closing out 2025 by revisiting the conversations with our guests that helped us understand and articulate the themes that would come to define the year. 

 

2025 was the year in which we discovered that this was not the energy transition that we were expecting; and the year in which a new geopolitical reality emerged and old geopolitical concerns resurfaced. It was the year featuring a tale of two carbon markets and the need for new weather markets to manage the risks posed by reliance on renewable power. And 2025 was the year in which there was both a new gold rush and a rush into tokenization.

 

We hope you’ll sit back, relax, and enjoy Part One of our Holiday Special 2025: The Year in Review.

 

Our guests in order of appearance:

 

Andy Home – Senior Metals Columnist, Thomson Reuters

SM213 – 1.18.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals

 

Andrea Hotter – Special Correspondent, Fastmarkets

SM214 – 1.25.2025 – The State of Play in Battery Metals

 

Peter Zaman – Partner, HFW Singapore

SM218 – 2.22.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025

 

Nobuo Tanaka – Executive Director Emeritus, International Energy Agency (IEA)

SM246 – 8.30.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

 

Helima Croft – Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets

SM245 – 8.23.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

 

Dave Ernsberger & Mark Eramo – Co-Presidents, S&P Global Commodity Insights

SM251 – 10.4.2025 – Catching Up On Climate

 

Rene Velasquez – Managing Partner, Valitera

SM219 – 3.1.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025

 

Mark Lewis – Partner & Managing Director, Climate Finance Partners LLC and Former Head of Research, Andurand Capital

SM216 – 2.8.2025 – Carbon Frontiers 2025

 

Hannah Hauman – Global Head of Carbon Trading, Trafigura

SM250 – 9.27.2025 – Catching Up On Climate

 

Theresa Kammel & Pierre Buisson – Originator & Senior Structurer, Weather & Agro Zurich, Munich Re

SM241 – 7.26.2025 – Summer Playlist 2025

 

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 10 | Walt Lukken, President & CEO, FIA

We close out our Re-engineering Tokenization series this week with Walt Lukken, President & CEO of the FIA and Former Acting Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. David Greely sits down with Walt to discuss the state of the conversation on tokenization in the cleared derivatives industry – and what the next steps are towards bringing tokenized assets into the mainstream.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 9 | Leah Wald, Digital Title Lead, Abaxx Technologies

This week on Re-engineering Tokenization, we welcome Leah Wald, Digital Title Lead at Abaxx Technologies, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Leah to discuss her experiences and insights from a career working at the intersection of DeFi and traditional finance – and how she's working with Abaxx to re-engineer tokenization through the introduction of Abaxx Private Digital Title.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 8 | Christopher Jensen, Portfolio Manager & Director of Digital Asset Research, Franklin Templeton

Re-engineering Tokenization continues this week with Christopher Jensen, Portfolio Manager & Director of Digital Asset Research at Franklin Templeton. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Christopher to discuss his experience tokenizing money market shares with their BENJI token – and the challenges and opportunities that he sees for both the builders and the investors in tokenization for real-world and digitally native assets.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 7 | Julian Kwan, CEO, IXS and InvestaX

This holiday weekend on our Re-engineering Tokenization series, we welcome Julian Kwan, CEO at IXS and InvestaX, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Julian to discuss his experience in tokenizing real-world assets, finding the business models that work, how the space has evolved, and how after eight years, it's only getting started.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 6 | Riley Hughes, Co-Founder & CEO, Trinsic

We continue our Re-engineering Tokenization series this week with Riley Hughes, Co-Founder & CEO at Trinsic. David Greely sits down with Riley to discuss how digital IDs are being used today; the need for a visa-like network for identity in order to move digital IDs more into the mainstream; and the opportunities that a wallet full of digital IDs and attestations will create for a future of more secure, private, and trusted digital interactions.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 5 | Carrie Jaquith, Global Head of Digital Product, Abaxx Technologies

Re-engineering Tokenization continues this week with Carrie Jaquith, Global Head of Digital Product at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Carrie to discuss what makes new technology adoptable by large institutions, the importance of it being interoperable and auditable, and why we should be thinking of augmenting existing PDF-based processes rather than replacing them as we re-engineer tokenization.

Re-engineering Tokenization Episode 4 | Peter Zaman, Partner, HFW Singapore

This week on Re-engineering Tokenization, we welcome Peter Zaman, Partner at HFW Singapore, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Peter to discuss the tokenization and fractionalization of commodities and real-world assets – and the law and customs that facilitate commodity trading by allowing for the transfer of ownership without the transfer of possession.