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Mar 2025
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Special Episode | Scenes from FIA Boca 2...

Abaxx Technologies Inc.
About this episode

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from FIA’s BOCA50 – the International Futures Industry Conference.

SmarterMarkets™ returned to FIA Boca to be a part of BOCA50, the 50th anniversary of the International Futures Industry Conference. We partnered with the FIA to interview a wide-range of futures industry participants.

We asked them how long they’ve been coming to Boca, how the conference has evolved, and what keeps them coming back. We also asked them to share with us the big topics and issues they were at Boca this year to discuss with others and what new derivatives products and financial technology they were most excited about. 

We’ve compiled a selection of those 9 interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.

Our guests in order of appearance in this episode are:

Walt Lukken, President & CEO, FIA

Alun Green, EVP, Managing Director, Futures & Options, Trading Technologies

Stuart Connolly, CEO, CloudMargin

Thomas Texier, Head of Clearing, Marex

Travis Schwab, CEO, Eventus

Ryan Moroney, CEO, CQG

Anthony Crudele, SVP, NinjaTrader

Alan Guarino, Vice Chairman, Korn Ferry

Joe Raia, Chief Commercial Officer, Abaxx Exchange & Clearinghouse

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