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I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Implications
Motivated
Significant
Innovate
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The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.
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Finished
Asset
Commodities
Fundamentally
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Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.
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Data
Sensitive
Private
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I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.
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Believe
Credit
Tools
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I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.
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Derivatives
Appealed
Quantitative
Require
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The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.
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Financial
Our Time
Time Change World
Blockchain
Challenge
Change Time World
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The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Financial Markets
Innovation
Markets
Natural Process
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You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.
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Philosophical
Abide
Divide
Insist
Regulations
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We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.
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Undesirable
Utopian
Version
Blockchain
Impractical
Solution
Rule
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Distributed ledger technology is fashionable. In fact, if you could wear it, you'd put Ralph Lauren out of business, at least in my case.
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Lauren
Distributed
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
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It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
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Add
Invention
Marketplace
Real Value
Amazing Feeling
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Unfortunately, tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their own risk exposures properly.
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Manage
Tools
Unfortunately
Properly
Systemic
Transfer
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The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.
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Borrowed
Credit
Derivative
Evolved
Markets
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Digital Asset has a talented team and technology that is uniquely positioned to solve challenging settlement issues facing global financial institutions.
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Digital
Settlement
Asset
Talented
Facing
Uniquely
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The platforms that are big, global, diversified, and both financial and physically enabled are competitively much better positioned than those which are not.
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Platforms
Physically
Diversified
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With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeals to financial institutions that are wary of the bitcoin blockchain.
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Appeals
Bitcoin
Chains
Institutions
Blockchain
Transaction
Wary
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Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology.
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Technology
Adoption
Digital
Mainstream
Revolutionary
Risk
Transparency
Asset
Lack
Platform
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If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less well than businesses that do a better job on that front.
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Deploying
Hiring
Base
Better Job
Exclude
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Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.
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Infrastructure
Retention
Blockchain
Database
Distributed
Enable
Entities
Sciences
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It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the audience and see very few women, whether it is an event focused on technology or business.
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Technology
Audience
Focused
Business Men Women
Men Business Women
Conference
Event
Few Women
Business Women Men
How Many Times
Noticeable
Panel
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If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity and the exchange of value, that's where blockchain technology can be put to good use.
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Activity
Completion
Coordination
Information
Transactions
Blockchain
Exchange
Necessary
Shared
Value
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A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart.
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Credit
Default
Simplest
Counterpart
Derivative
Insurance
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Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.
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Enormous
Financial
Financial Services
Infrastructure
Blockchain
Database
Entities
Generational
Services
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In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk.
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Barriers
Categories
Credit
Derivatives
Enormous
Levels
Pricing
Profit
Rating
Seniority
Associated
Classes
Exploit
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Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of cryptographic technology. The possibilities for reducing cost and risk in settlement are enormous.
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Adoption
Digital
Enormous
Mainstream
Reducing
Revolutionary
Settlement
Transparency
Asset
Platform
Possibilities
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The Hyperledger Project is gaining traction on a daily basis, displaying how vital this effort is in advancing distributed ledger technology. Uniting the industry to drive this initiative forward is paramount to the success of distributed ledger technology.
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Advancing
Initiative
Paramount
Uniting
Daily Basis
Displaying
Gaining
Vital
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I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Capability
Credit
Derivatives
Financial Crisis
Distributed
Resulted
Systemic
Unfold
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I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Credit
Derivatives
Management
Risk Management
Bank
Foremost
Initially
Most Important Thing
Purposes
Served
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In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
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Cash
End Of The World
Financial Services
Time World Your
Account
Advantages
Comparative
Fraction
Measured
Processes
Services
Speeds
Stock
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When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.
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Bitcoin
Dumb
Intimidating
Database
Explain
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Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.
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Active
Exposure
Limitation
Tiny
Commodities
Represent
Fraction
Prices
Underlying
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I would describe Hyperledger as a tremendous opportunity for collaboration for firms that range from gigantic commercial concerns all the way to the smallest, newest startups. It's a community of great intellectual depth and great commercial breadth, and as such, I think the opportunity to be part of that is a unique and enriching experience.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Breadth
Collaboration
Depth
Enriching
Range
Smallest
Experience Great Opportunity
Tremendous
Commercial
Concerns
Gigantic
Newest
Startups
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I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted in systemic risk counterparty exposures. I began to believe that distributed ledgers had the capability to tackle that problem.
Blythe Masters / Executive
Capability
Credit
Derivatives
Financial Crisis
Infrastructure
Regulation
Distributed
Markets
Resulted
Systemic
Unfold
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