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Abaxx Technologies Inc.

SmarterMarkets™ brings you the entrepreneurs, icons, and executives of commodities, capital markets, and technology to rant on the inadequacies of our systems and riff on ideas for how to improve them. Our weekly episodes explore how technology can be leveraged to redesign and improve markets to meet society’s biggest challenges, including the energy transformation and the transition to an AI-augmented economy.

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  • #302
    Saturday · 32 min

    Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 2 | Mandy Rambharos & Candace Vinke from Verra, Live from IETA’s North America Climate Summit

    This week on Catching Up On Climate, we welcome Mandy Rambharos and Candace Vinke into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Mandy is CEO at Verra and Candace is Chief Program Development and Innovation Officer at Verra. David Greely sat down with them at IETA’s North America Climate Summit 2026 this week in New York City to discuss Verra’s newest carbon standard, the Scope 3 Standard (S3S) Program – and what it means for carbon markets.

  • #301
    September 19 · 32 min

    Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 1 | Dirk Forrister, President & CEO, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)

    This week, we kick off Catching Up On Climate 2026 with Dirk Forrister, President & CEO of IETA. David Greely sits down with Dirk to discuss what he and IETA have been focused on this past year – and what he sees as some of the most important things happening in climate and carbon markets ahead of IETA's North America Climate Summit next week in New York City.

  • #300
    September 12 · 1 hr 14 min

    Special 300th Episode | Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse

    This week we celebrate our 300th episode with Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines and Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse. David Greely sits down with Robert to discuss the world’s ever growing hunger for metals and what the mining and tech industries, governments, and markets are doing – and need to be doing – in a week when LME copper prices hit a new record high.

  • #299
    September 5 · 38 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 8 | Ben Hunt, Author of Epsilon Theory & President/Co-Founder of Perscient

    We close out our Summer Playlist this week with Ben Hunt, author of Epsilon Theory & President/Co-Founder of Perscient. David Greely sits down with Ben to discuss the insights in his recent Semantic Manifesto. They talk about how AI and LLMs have given us the tools and computing power to map and track the structures of the stories that we tell ourselves in markets – and to explore the invisible, but very real world of stories and semantics.

  • #298
    August 29 · 46 min

    Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Frances Haugen, Advocate for Accountability and Transparency in Social Media & Author of “The Power of One”

    This week, we present SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating. We’re bringing back an older Summer Playlist episode from 2023 with Frances Haugen. Frances is an advocate for accountability and transparency in social media and the author of the memoir, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. This past week, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, agreed to an $18 billion dollars settlement with several U.S. states and territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harm children. They agreed to make a number of changes to its platform and algorithms, including time limits and the ability to choose a feed that is not driven by an algorithm. In this episode, David Greely sat down with Frances to discuss the algorithms designed to capture our and our children's attention, their flaws, and how we can incentivize change and build better social networks. We thought it was timely to give this another listen.

  • #297
    August 22 · 33 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 7 | Russell Robertson, Chief Business Development Officer, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse

    On this week’s installment of our Summer Playlist, we welcome Russell Robertson back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Russell is Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse in Singapore. David Greely sits down with Russell to discuss his perspective on India's evolving role in the gold and silver markets and its growing importance to the global commodities derivatives industry. They also talk about the developing new network of markets and trading corridors stretching from India to the Middle East, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Singapore – and the opportunities it creates.

  • #296
    August 15 · 33 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 6 | Sunil Kashyap, Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore

    We continue our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Sunil Kashyap back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Sunil is Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore. David Greely sits down with Sunil to discuss the surge of new developments and new initiatives being announced in Asia's gold and silver markets including the growth in trading activity of Abaxx Exchange’s gold and silver futures markets in Singapore, the Hong Kong Exchange reviving its gold futures market in Hong Kong, and Singapore pursuing an OTC gold clearing initiative to create a Loco Singapore market.

  • #295
    August 8 · 24 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 5 | Josh Qiao, CEO, Yongan International Financial SG

    This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Josh Qiao into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Josh is CEO of Yongan International Financial SG. David Greely sits down with Josh to discuss how Yongan is providing access to China’s futures and options markets for international traders, why it chose to become a clearing member of Abaxx Exchange, and the opportunities this creates in the commodities futures markets.

  • #293
    July 25 · 39 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 3 | Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten & Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack

    This week on our Summer Playlist, we welcome Arjun Murti back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Arjun is Partner at Veriten and Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack. David Greely sits down with Arjun to discuss the lessons learned from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the risk of a super spike should the conflict continue, and the key themes he'll be following in the second half of 2026.

  • #292
    July 18 · 46 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 2 | Joe Raia, Thomas McMahon, & Russell Robertson from the Abaxx Team

    On the second installment of our Summer Playlist this week, we welcome Thomas McMahon, Joe Raia, and Russell Robertson into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Thomas is Co-Founder of Abaxx Technologies; Joe and Russell are Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Business Development Officer at Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse. David Greely sits down with them in Singapore to discuss their experiences in building new commodities futures markets from first trades to commercial adoption over the past five decades – and the opportunities they see ahead.

  • #291
    July 11 · 40 min

    Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 1 | Samantha Dart, Co-Head of Global Commodities Research, Goldman Sachs

    We kick off our Summer Playlist this week by welcoming Samantha Dart back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Samantha is Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs. David Greely sits down with Samantha to discuss the state of the energy markets given the ongoing conflict in Iran, the risks posed by the weather this summer and next winter, and how the increasing demand for electricity is shaping power markets, metals demand, and inflation.

  • #290
    July 4 · 44 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 8 | Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull

    This week, we close out our How to Raise Your Agent series with Matthew Cheung, CEO of ipushpull. David Greely sits down with Matthew to discuss how chat won the interface war in financial services, how AI is unlocking a trove of chat data for enterprise use, and why governance will be the key to who wins in a world of messaging and AI agents.

  • #289
    June 27 · 39 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 7 | Tom Redman, "The Data Doc" & President, Data Quality Solutions

    This week on How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Tom Redman into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Tom is "The Data Doc" and President of Data Quality Solutions. David Greely sits down with Tom to discuss how, in his view, AI is data, how much of our data is not fit for purpose, and how the solution begins with keeping the focus on the customer – and getting people and their AI agents to see themselves as part of a system in which they are both the data creators and customers.

  • #288
    June 20 · 43 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 6 | Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition & AI Professor at UC Berkeley

    We continue our How to Raise Your Agent series this week with Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition and AI Professor at UC Berkeley. SmarterMarkets™ host David Greely sits down with Joyce to discuss how AI is rewiring work, what we can learn from past tech transformations, and what's different this time from the perspective of a business practitioner, tech investor, and educator.

  • #287
    June 13 · 53 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 5 | Daniel Solove, Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School

    On this week’s installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Daniel Solove into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Daniel is the Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property & Technology Law at George Washington University Law School. David Greely sits down with Daniel to discuss how AI isn't so much opening up new problems in privacy, but exposing and amplifying the old ones – and how we need to change our legal approach to privacy to solve these problems and take us out of the digital fishbowl we find ourselves in.

  • #285
    May 30 · 40 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 3 | Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO, The AI Lab

    We continue our series How to Raise Your Agent with Ryan Kurt, Founder & CEO of The AI Lab. David Greely sits down with Ryan to discuss how AI and AI agents are transforming our companies and our economy. They talk about the big questions that business leaders should be asking right now and what the companies that are successfully navigating this moment are doing differently.

  • #284
    May 23 · 32 min

    Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO, The Silver Institute

    This week, we present SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating. We’re bringing back an episode that we brought you last May with Michael DiRienzo, President & CEO at The Silver Institute. During the conversation, David Greely and Michael discuss the outlook for silver, its role in the energy transition, and the role it can and should play in investor portfolios and in our financial system in the 21st century. Those topics are as relevant now as they were last year. One update: last year, we discussed that at the time, silver appeared undervalued as it took 100 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold. Of course, silver prices have climbed over the past year. Now it only takes roughly 60 ounces of silver to buy 1 ounce of gold in the physically deliverable gold and silver futures markets now trading on Abaxx Exchange in Singapore.

  • #283
    May 16 · 46 min

    How to Raise Your Agent Episode 2 | Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Chief Data Strategy Officer, Abaxx Technologies

    On our second installment of How to Raise Your Agent, we welcome Michelle Finneran Dennedy back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Michelle is Chief Data Strategy Officer at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Michelle to discuss what business leaders and managers will need to do to adapt to a world where their teams include both people and agents – and how they should be thinking about integrating agents into their teams, including how to raise and govern them.

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