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Jeremy Maletz

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

But the bread and butter remains market making.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

And we try to use that to kind of make a market or bring a market to any asset class we're looking at.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So if you have a market where you have an insane amount of people that are all trying to trade all the time, you might be able to make it work without a market maker.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

But what a market maker is really doing is it's helping to bridge the gap between the different people who are trying to trade.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So Joe, you might want to trade now and Tracy might want to trade in an hour.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

But that doesn't help you if she's not there now.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So we're basically saying, hey, we're going to be there when you want to trade.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

And then we're gonna wait and when Tracy wants to trade, we'll take the other side of it.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So we're basically a function that matches the buyers to the sellers across time and also across size.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So it really depends on the way that you do it.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

There's a lot of small independent groups or just individual people who are able to be out there.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

And they make markets.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

And their goal is to try to balance it.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

And they have to think a lot about capital.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

We are very fortunate that capital isn't generally a constraint for us.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

So that's one of the things that it's an advantage for us.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

But it's also something we can bring to the market.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

provide much, much larger size on things.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

It's why we're well suited to bootstrap a market and to do institutional type size because we're not constrained by capital in that way.

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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

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