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SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including climate change and the energy transition.
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Saturday Oct 05, 2024
Saturday Oct 05, 2024
We continue Markets in Transition this week with Helima Croft, Managing Director & Global Head of Commodity Strategy at RBC Capital Markets. David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East as well as the U.S. presidential elections – and what each may mean for global energy markets.

Saturday Sep 28, 2024
Saturday Sep 28, 2024
Our Markets in Transition series continues this week with Andy Home, Senior Metals Columnist at Thomson Reuters. David Greely sits down with Andy to discuss the many transitions happening in the metals markets today, as well as the big issues that the metals industry needs to be talking about if we're to meet these challenges as we head into London Metals Week.

Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
This week on Markets in Transition, we welcome Dirk Forrister back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Dirk is President & CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss the transitions happening in the carbon markets – from analog to digital, voluntary to compliance, and OECD to global – as we head into IETA's North America Climate Summit 2024 this week in New York City.

Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Markets in Transition Episode 2 | He Yiyong, Founder & CEO, LNG Easy
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
We continue our Markets in Transition series this week with He Yiyong, Founder & CEO of LNG Easy. David Greely sits down with He Yiyong to discuss how rising LNG supplies are spurring the development of retail LNG markets in China and developing countries – and how the pricing system for LNG needs to be adapted to meet the needs of these retail LNG markets.

Saturday Sep 07, 2024
Saturday Sep 07, 2024
This week, we kick off our new series, Markets in Transition.
The energy transition is changing global markets in natural gas, carbon, and battery metals. In our new series, we’ll be discussing what these changes mean for our markets — and what smarter markets and market infrastructure we need to build to meet the needs of the energy transition.
We begin our Markets in Transition series with Andrea Aranguren, CEO & President of Minehub Technologies. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Andrea to discuss the transition from email and Excel to digital supply chains – and what it means for companies and markets.

Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Summer Playlist 2024 Episode 8 | Ted Merz, Founder, Principals Media
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
Saturday Aug 31, 2024
We close out our Summer Playlist this week with Ted Merz, Founder of Principles Media. David Greely sits down with Ted to discuss the growing imperative for business leaders to tell their story – and how technology is changing the nature of how we write our stories and what our readers value in them.

Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Summer Playlist 2024 Episode 7 | Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO, PrivacyCode.AI
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Saturday Aug 24, 2024
Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Michelle Finneran Dennedy, CEO of PrivacyCode.AI. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss privacy in the age of data as a highly valuable commodity – and the focus we need to be putting on data supply chains and the data industry in the wake of the National Public Data breach.

Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Saturday Aug 17, 2024
Our Summer Playlist continues this week with Hannah Hauman, Global Head of Carbon Trading at Trafigura. David Greely sits down with Hannah to discuss how seemingly separate EU regulations on corporate green claims and reporting are coming together to create a new definition of net zero and a new approach to driving corporate climate action.

Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Summer Playlist 2024 Episode 5 | Edwin Dorsey, Author of “The Bear Cave” on Substack
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
Saturday Aug 10, 2024
This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Edwin Dorsey, author of “The Bear Cave” on Substack, into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Edwin to discuss his work and views on the short side of the stock market – and its role in making markets smarter by finding the serious problems that others may not see yet.

Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Summer Playlist 2024 Episode 4 | Peter Zaman, Partner, HFW Singapore
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
We continue our Summer Playlist this week with Peter Zaman. Peter is a Partner at HFW in Singapore and has been practicing law in climate finance and environmental markets since 2004. David Greely sits down with Peter to talk about the state of play in carbon markets. They discuss what the SBTi statements this week, the uncertainties facing CORSIA participants, and the EU's new methane regulation tell us about how the disputes over the right approach to addressing carbon emissions are having practical consequences on our ability to make meaningful progress – and what we need to be doing next.