Alexander Osipovich

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528 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2017 last heard Feb 2025

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Bitcoin Futures: Why Some Big Banks Aren't on Board · 8 Dec 2017 podcast

I mean, everybody's trying to figure out how do you classify this thing? voice-verified

How do you trade it? voice-verified

What's the appropriate kind of box to put it in? voice-verified

And I think what we're seeing right now is this process of putting it into the commodity box so you can have a commodity futures contract on it, trade it the same way you can trade oil or gold or things like that. voice-verified

Well, periodically, exchanges roll out new products or they will have kind of different kinds of contracts and things they offer, and they have to get essentially banks on board to act as the brokers for them or the clearing firms, if you want to use the technical term. voice-verified

And there have been issues where a certain kind of exotic derivative contract goes out there and the exchange tries to get some banks on board. voice-verified

And this normally happens behind the scenes. voice-verified

It doesn't get a lot of attention. voice-verified

The different thing this time is that Bitcoin is – voice-verified

getting massive amounts of attention, a huge amount of investor interest from journalists like myself, from traders, et cetera. voice-verified

So all this is happening in the public eye. voice-verified

I don't think there's ever been a new futures product launch that's been so heavily scrutinized. voice-verified

Yeah, it's a classic dilemma for the banks. voice-verified

Essentially, there's a kind of a hot new market out there. voice-verified

Their customers are definitely interested in it. voice-verified

You would be interested in a market that rose as fast as Bitcoin did. voice-verified

And they're trying to figure out, like, how do we go and offer this while also being, you know, running a business responsibly and not getting, you know, into this at the wrong time and getting caught up into a mania. voice-verified

Well, that's a great question. voice-verified

I think that the jury is still out there. voice-verified

I mean, as you know, some Wall Street bank CEOs like Jamie Dimon have been kind of critical of Bitcoin. voice-verified

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