EP 11 — Why true prime brokerage doesn't exist in crypto without top-five bank balance sheets | Adam Guren
Adam Guren built Hunting Hill Global Capital from a $10M friends-and-family fund in 2012 to $650M in AUM today, with 90% of risk now in crypto derivatives. Starting as an ETF arbitrage trader at a pro...
31 Okt 202539min
EP 10 — $3.5 billion in bitcoin-backed loans with zero liquidations: The institutional underwriting framework
Two Prime built one of the largest bitcoin-backed lending operations in the US by doing what collapsed lenders didn't: lending exclusively to institutions with provable bitcoin reserves. CEO Alexander...
14 Okt 202555min
EP 9 — Cross-Asset Prime Brokerage: How Hidden Road Bridges Traditional Finance and Digital Assets
Institutional traders need infrastructure that works across both traditional and digital asset markets. Michael Higgins explains how Hidden Road built pension fund-backed prime brokerage that processe...
22 Sep 202556min
EP 8 — MarketVector's Martin Leinweber on Building the Coin 50 Index for Institutions
The absence of primary listing exchanges in crypto creates challenges that most institutional players underestimate until they attempt to build derivative products at scale. Director of Digital Asset ...
17 Jun 202525min
EP 7 — Deribit's Luuk Strijers on the Strategy Behind Their Global Expansion
The institutional crypto derivatives market has quietly evolved into a sophisticated ecosystem demanding infrastructure standards that most platforms simply cannot deliver. Luuk Strijers, CEO of Derib...
6 Jun 202537min
EP 6 — Bitwise’s Matthew Hougan on Converting Bitcoin Volatility Into Income Opportunity
The cryptocurrency landscape has been radically transformed, but Matthew Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, believes markets are still underpricing the implications. In this candid conversat...
9 Mai 202533min
EP 5 — MNNC Group’s Shiliang Tang on Why Digital Asset Trading Firms Need Strategic Consolidation
"Build or buy?” In crypto, that question just got a lot more complicated, explains Shiliang Tang, Advisor to FalconX and Founder & General Partner at MNNC Group, in this episode of Derivatives Decoded...
2 Apr 202536min
EP 4 — Arca’s Jeff Dorman on Why Bank Custody Services Could Transform Digital Assets
From redefining prime brokerage models to navigating the complexities of T+0 settlement, this episode of Derivatives Decoded features Jeff Dorman, Chief Investment Officer at Arca, delivering an insti...
14 Feb 202535min
