Inside the ICE House

Former U.S. Navy SEAL & SEALFIT Founder Mark Divine joined the podcast to discuss his latest book, Staring Down the Wolf: 7 Leadership Commitments That Forge Elite Teams. Mark is a man on-call to many companies helping their executives hone the skills to overcome tough challenges.  His unique career -- from CPA to SEAL Commander to serial entrepreneur -- taught him to combine military and business training to benefit any team, from the battlefield to the boardroom. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Chris Giancarlo’s voice resonates with experience and authority. He didn’t stand still when his term as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission came to end last year. He’s immersed himself in a wide range of initiatives built on his decades of service in government and FinTech, which he explains in this episode. But he’s also keeping a close eye on his old beat, and doesn’t like what he sees from European regulators tinkering with the complex plumbing of central counterparty clearing that underpins the global markets. “Now,” he says, “is not the time to change the rules on CCP resolution.”                                                      Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

“Exchange Invest” delivers PLY’s pith, developed over decades immersed in markets, around the world each morning, cutting through the clutter in the “parish” of global bourses. Patrick’s take is a must read for exchange industry leaders and back benchers alike. He joined the pod from his perch in Malta to break down the markets’ response to COVID-19, his career arc from auto racing to fintech, and his most recent book, “Victory or Death? Blockchain, Cryptocurrency & the FinTech World.”   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

How have your spending habits changed since the pandemic struck? Fewer in-person dips or swipes of your credit card? More e-commerce? Are these short-term changes temporary, or the beginning of a payments sea change? Margaret Keane, CEO of Synchrony, joins us to explore the future of payments, leading a disparate workforce through difficult times, and how Synchrony is innovating and diversifying to meet the needs of its clients, today and in the future.                                                      Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

How will climate impact the future of the $3.8 trillion municipal bond market? Chris Hartshorn, risQ’s Chief Commercial Officer, joined Josh and ICE Data Services President Lynn Martin to discuss the technology behind ICE Climate Risk, a tool which combines cutting-edge climate science, catastrophe modelling, and geospatial machine learning technology from risQ with ICE’s pricing and reference data to quantitively measure climate risk in financial instruments employed to fund state and local government projects, airports, schools, hospitals and more.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

May 10, 2020 marks the 20th Anniversary of Intercontinental Exchange, the company that Jeff Sprecher and his colleagues transformed from an entrepreneurial startup into what he terms a “massively scalable network and database company” that, two decades on, operating 12 exchanges, 6 clearinghouses, a data services business, and a wide array of trading tools, technologies and platforms built on that stack. As ICE enters its third decade, Jeff shares the vision for what lies ahead.

The tumult in the oil markets is not just the result of a coronavirus-driven collapse in demand, but go to the shifting tectonic plates that hold up the entire global economy. One of the world’s foremost oil experts, Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of IHS Market and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, joined Josh and ICE’s Head of Oil Sales, Jeff Barbuto, for a frank discussion about the changing fundamentals of oil & how COVID-19 will play a role in picking the winners & losers of the battle for energy supremacy.  Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Jim Greenwood, President and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, and the former long-term congressman from Pennsylvania’s 8th District, joined us as part of Intercontinental Exchange’s ongoing series on the latest information and perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic. Jim shared how the 1,000+ biotech companies, academic institutions, state biotech centers, and other organizations that BIO represents are producing the cures, vaccines, and other protocols required to reopen the nation.                                                      Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

The coffee bean is one of the commodities traded on ICE’s futures exchange, where everyone from growers to refiners, to shippers and retailers, buy and sell coffee futures to manage their price risk. Augustine Sedgewick, author of COFFEELAND: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, joined us from his remote outpost to talk about on the history of coffee, the development of the world markets, and the obscure science behind the simple coffee break.                                                        Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Ira Coleman, Chairman of McDermott Will & Emery, joins the podcast to take listeners through the inner workings of closing a deal at one of the world’s leading law firms. He shares insights on the legal issues facing healthcare, why the profession must evolve to meet the needs of the client, and how someone’s Uber rating can make or break their chance to work at the leading edge of law.