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Episodes

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  Global Upheaval in Energy Markets Episode 2 | Doomberg, Publishers of the “Doomberg” Substack 31.10.2026 44m

  This week on Global Upheaval in Energy Markets, we welcome back Doomberg, the team behind the “Doomberg” Substack, one of the most widely read finance newsletters.   David Greely sits down with Doomberg to discuss why the epicenter of the current energy crisis is diesel and LNG rather than crude oil; why they believe we've been in World War III since 2014; what it means for geopolitics and energy markets; and why many parts of the world are not prepared for what could come next.   This interview was recorded on October 21, 2026.  
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  Global Upheaval in Energy Markets Episode 1 | Helima Croft, Managing Director & Head of Global Commodity Strategy & MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets 24.10.2026 31m

  We kick off our new Global Upheaval in Energy Markets series this week with Helima Croft. Helima is Managing Director and the Head of Global Commodity Strategy and MENA Research at RBC Capital Markets.   David Greely sits down with Helima to discuss what could come next in the conflict in the Middle East; whether the energy system's shock absorbers have been exhausted; and how the geopolitical foundations of the energy markets may be changing in a way where there's no going back.  
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  Special Episode | SmarterMarkets Update: The State of AI with Dr. Tricia Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Advanced AI Society 17.10.2026 49m

  This week, we present SmarterMarkets Update: The State of AI. At SmarterMarkets, we've realized that AI, like life, moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. So we'll be bringing you periodic updates on the state of AI interspersed with our regular podcast series.   For our first update, our guest is Dr. Tricia Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Advanced AI Society. David Greely sits down with Tricia to discuss how we can rebuild trust in the machine-to-machine age of AI; the role of open verification and proof of control; why the AI world should stop writing off what the crypto world built, and in particular, why the crypto ethos of ‘don't trust, verify’ is critical now for AI safety and adoption.  
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  Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 3 | Peter Zaman, Partner, HFW Singapore 10.10.2026 45m

  This week on Catching Up On Climate, we welcome Peter Zaman, Partner at HFW Singapore, back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. David Greely sits down with Peter to catch up on how the energy supply disruptions emanating from the conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Russia are changing the geopolitics of the energy transition, and what it means for progress toward net-zero goals.
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  Special Episode | Scenes from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2026 03.10.2026 50m

  We present a special episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the IETA North America Climate Summit 2026. SmarterMarkets™ returned to the IETA North America Climate Summit to catch up with market practitioners on the challenges and opportunities in the development of the carbon markets. This year’s conference focused on the “New Carbon Order: Innovation, Investment, and Interoperability.” In partnership with IETA, we caught up with a cross section of participants about what they and their organizations have been working on, where they see progress, and what we need to be doing next. Some common themes included the ongoing integration of compliance and voluntary markets, the role of AI and digital technology in carbon markets, and the need for standardization and harmonization across the growing network of country and regional emissions schemes. We’ve compiled a selection of those 7 interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. Our guests, in order of appearance, are: Guy Turner – Managing Director, MSCI Carbon Markets   Sandeep Roy Choudhury – Co-Founder & Director, VNV   Alex Saer – CEO, Cercarbono   Alexia Kelly – Managing Director of Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative, High Tide Foundation   Mandy Rambharos – CEO, Verra + Candace Vinke – Chief Program Development and Innovation Officer, Verra   Benoît Clément – VCM+ Fellow, Financial Infrastructure for Carbon Markets (FICM), Verified Carbon Market Collaborative (VCM+)   Thomas McMahon – Co-Founder, Abaxx Technologies  
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  Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 2 | Mandy Rambharos & Candace Vinke from Verra, Live from IETA’s North America Climate Summit 26.09.2026 32m

  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.
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  Catching Up On Climate 2026 Episode 1 | Dirk Forrister, President & CEO, International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) 19.09.2026 32m

  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.
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  Special 300th Episode | Robert Friedland, Executive Co-Chairman of Ivanhoe Mines & Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of I-Pulse 12.09.2026 1h 14m

  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.
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 8 | Ben Hunt, Author of Epsilon Theory & President/Co-Founder of Perscient 05.09.2026 38m

  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.
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  Special Episode | SmarterMarkets™ Encore: Ideas Worth Repeating with Frances Haugen, Advocate for Accountability and Transparency in Social Media & Author of “The Power of One” 29.08.2026 46m

  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.  
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 7 | Russell Robertson, Chief Business Development Officer, Abaxx Exchange and Clearinghouse 22.08.2026 33m

  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.  
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 6 | Sunil Kashyap, Managing Director at FinMet Pte Ltd., Singapore 15.08.2026 33m

  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.  
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 5 | Josh Qiao, CEO, Yongan International Financial SG 08.08.2026 24m

  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.
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 4 | Mark Lewis, Partner and Managing Director, Climate Finance Partners LLC 01.08.2026 49m

  Our Summer Playlist rolls on this week with Mark Lewis, Partner and Managing Director at Climate Finance Partners LLC. David Greely sits down with Mark to discuss the recently released European Commission's EU ETS review proposals and what they'll mean for the outlook for the EU ETS and other carbon markets.
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 3 | Arjun Murti, Partner at Veriten & Publisher of “Super-Spiked” on Substack 25.07.2026 39m

  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.
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 2 | Joe Raia, Thomas McMahon, & Russell Robertson from the Abaxx Team 18.07.2026 46m

  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.  
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  Summer Playlist 2026 Episode 1 | Samantha Dart, Co-Head of Global Commodities Research, Goldman Sachs 11.07.2026 40m

  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.
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  How to Raise Your Agent Episode 8 | Matthew Cheung, CEO, ipushpull 04.07.2026 44m

  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.
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  How to Raise Your Agent Episode 7 | Tom Redman, "The Data Doc" & President, Data Quality Solutions 27.06.2026 39m

  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.
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  How to Raise Your Agent Episode 6 | Joyce Shen, Managing Partner at Together Expedition & AI Professor at UC Berkeley 20.06.2026 43m

  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.