Inside the ICE House

Nearly 40% of US workers, from Uber drivers to skilled freelancers, now make up the gig economy. David Ossip, Chairman & CEO of Ceridian HCM Holding, is on a mission to make work life better for his employees and clients. Coming off a successful IPO in April, David returned to the Exchange to discuss how Ceridian’s cloud based platform, Dayforce, allows companies to optimize human capital and employees find work to fit their life.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Roger Ibbotson, Chairman and CIO of Zebra Capital Management, visits to talk how his research into behavioral finance reveals the stock market has hot and cold securities. He believes that identifying those cool stocks will provides better returns over the long-term. His firm has partnered with the NYSE to create the NYSE Zebra Edge Index to employ his strategy and help people plan a financial future to not outlive their money.

Vince Birley, CEO of Vident Financial, cofounded Vident to implement his Principled Reasoning Investment Philosophy. He has put that theory to work developing rules-based smart indexes to create an investment method to account for a company’s values in its valuation.   To support Hanna’s Homes, the Ethiopian orphanage mentioned in the episode purchase Hanna’s Coffee here: .http://aromaridge.com/coffee-for-a-cause/hannas-blend-coffee/   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Jessica Lappin, President of the Alliance for Downtown New York, just released a report hot off the presses envisioning how to revitalize the Stock Exchange District, the historic birthplace of the global capitalism. Since 9/11, when security priorities closed the streets, the crossroads lost some of its soul, but the future is bright if Lappin can build on the support she’s galvanized to revitalize the area.   Find out more at: https://www.downtownny.com/stockexchangedistrictstudy Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Tim Byun, the Chief Regulatory Officer of OKCOIN, stepped Inside the ICE House to offer his thoughts on where crypto is headed and forecast the regulatory and compliance hurdles arising as the market grows. Today, there are nearly 200 cryptocoin exchanges located around the world and over 4,500 types of cryptocoin. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are seeing a dramatic hike: over $2 billion in new ICOs, in March 2018, compared to just $19.5 million in March 2017, according to CoinDesk. Tim Byun helps us understand where the trends are headed. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, has been called “the world’s most important number.” Tim Bowler, President of ICE Benchmark Administration, is responsible for managing ICE LIBOR, along with a slew of other benchmarks including ICE Swap Rate, and the London Bullion Market Association Gold and Silver Prices. Widely used across the globe, LIBOR’s rates underpin between $200-$300 trillion of financial products and serve as a gauge of market expectation regarding central bank interest rates. How LIBOR will evolve in the months ahead is a focus of daily headlines these days, and Tim tells us why. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Smartsheet’s CFO Jennifer Ceran and SVP of Product Gene Farrell, visited the ICE House just minutes after the company started trading on the NYSE to share their IPO journey and what it takes for a company to transition into the public markets. Built on a rock solid culture, Smartsheet has deployed a cloud-based platform that encourages the same type of innovative collaboration for its clients through planning and project management workflows.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Michael Schlein, President and CEO of Accion, visits the ICE House to discussing how fintech, microlending, and seed investment is opening up access to capital and lifting millions across the globe out of poverty.  Accion’s mission for the last fifty years has been to give people the financial tools they need to improve their lives and Michael sees fintech as the pathway to an inclusive financial system of the future.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Dr. Adam Back, the co-founder and CEO of Blockstream and the inventor of hashcash, visits the ICE House to discuss his career and the future of the block chain and financial cryptography. Over the last year, we've seen steep run-ups in the price of cryptocurrencies, often followed by precipitous falls. In spite of this extreme volatility, the crypto markets continues to grow and some estimate it could reach a valuation as high as $1 trillion in 2018.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house