Patrick Boyle On Finance
Patrick Boyle
This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investment banker. To contact Patrick visit http://onfinance.org Find Patrick on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance DISCLAIMER:This podcast is not affiliated with any financial institution. The information provided is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Those seeking investment advice should seek out a registered professional in their home jurisdiction and confirm their credentials on your national regulator's website. Patrick Boyle is not responsible for any investment actions taken by viewers and his content should not be used as a basis for investment or other financial decisions.
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Jan 8, 2023 • 18min
2022 The Year in Review
Send us a textFrom Elon Musks Purchase of Twitter to the arrest and extradition of Sam Bankman-Fried, 2022 was an eventful year in the world of finance. In Today's podcast let's look at the major financial news events of the year to see if there is anything we can learn or laugh about. Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvCPatreon Page: https...
Dec 19, 2022 • 19min
The $100 Million Influencer Pump & Dump Scheme.
Send us a textFederal prosecutors and the SEC earlier this week charged seven Influencers with using Twitter, Discord and YouTube to commit securities fraud that netted them more than $100 million.An eighth influencer was charged with aiding and abetting the alleged scheme in the SEC’s civil complaint and with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in the Department of Justice’s criminal case.Each of the defendants had well over 100,000 Twitter followers as of this month, they ran a podcast ca...
Dec 15, 2022 • 27min
The Case Against Sam Bankman-Fried
Send us a textSam Bankman-Fried has been arrested, accused of engineering “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history.”In a Department of Justice indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Bankman-Fried has been charged with eight counts including conspiracy to commit wire fraud on customers and lenders, money laundering and violations of campaign finance laws. Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, faces years in prison if convicted.The charges point to a long-running sc...
Dec 10, 2022 • 22min
Why We Trust Fraudsters!
Send us a textFrom Enron to Wirecard to Theranos and FTX, elaborate investment scams can remain undetected long after the warning signs appear. What are investors missing?Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvCPatreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://...
Dec 6, 2022 • 16min
Blackstone’s Investors Want Their Money Back!
Send us a textStephen Schwarzman and Jonathan Gray of Blackstone have built the best fundraising machine on Wall Street, but now, the billionaire pair are in an unfamiliar position — having to return cash to clients who are asking for their money back.Blackstone’s stock price fell last week after it limited withdrawals from its $125bn real estate investment fund BREIT, after a surge of redemption requests.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivativ...
Dec 1, 2022 • 18min
Sam Bankman Fried Explains the Losses at FTX.
Send us a textSam Bankman Fried did two interviews with Tiffany Fong to explain what happened at FTX and where the customers money went. The first interview went out on the YouTube channel Coffeezilla yesterday.The Full Sam Bankman Fried Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP54LZB3WRw&t=1sCoffeezilla Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rL35_WV3lE&t=85sPatrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: ...
Nov 24, 2022 • 17min
The Institutional Investors Who Lost With FTX
Send us a textSince its launch in 2019, FTX has raised $1.8bn and was most recently valued at $32bn. Among its shareholders are some of the world’s most-respected hedge fund managers and Venture Capitalists. Now with FTX having filed for bankruptcy, their investments look to be a complete wipeout. Investors including Sequoia, SoftBank and Paradigm, which was co-founded by former Sequoia partner Matt Huang, have marked their holdings in the company to zero, vaporising hundreds of millions...
Nov 19, 2022 • 17min
FTX: Worse Than Enron!
Send us a textThe new chief executive of FTX, an insolvency professional who oversaw the liquidation of Enron, has said that the bankruptcy of the crypto group is the worst case of corporate failure he has seen in more than 40 years.John Ray III, who was appointed to run the FTX bankruptcy, said in a US court filing that he had never seen “such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information”.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading ...
Nov 12, 2022 • 26min
FTX Bankruptcy Explained!
Send us a textFTX, the cryptocurrency exchange recently valued at $32 billion dollars, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US.The filing in Delaware federal court on Friday included the main FTX international exchange, FTX US a US crypto marketplace, Sam Bankman-Fried’s proprietary trading group Alameda Research and about 130 affiliated companies.In today's video we discuss what went wrong at FTX, and discuss the influencers who pitched FTX to their audiences.Patrick's Books:Statistics...
Nov 8, 2022 • 37min
The Myth of The Robber Barons.
Send us a textThe term robber baron is frequently used to describe men like Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, along with other powerful 19th-century American industrialists. These men came from nowhere and made fortunes building out Americas industrial infrastructure. In their pursuit of wealth, they put railroads in place, provided energy to American homes and manufactured the steel that built American cities. Many of the 19th Century American industr...
