186: Sudhu Arumugam Advancing Crypto EcosystemPost Two Decades of Institutional Trading

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 7:37 a.m.

b'Joining me on this episode is Sudhu Arumugam, the co-founder and Chief Risk Officer of cryptocurrency futures exchange CoinFLEX.\\nThough prior to this, Sudhu spent near 20-years in various trading roles for banks and hedge funds\\u2014mostly transacting in options on indices and single stocks, exotic derivatives and fixed income.\\nWe start things off by talking about Sudhu\\u2019s early days and experience in London\\u2019s LIFFE trading pit, meeting and trading with DRW founder Don Wilson\\u2014who he identified as a \\u201cforce to be reckoned with.\\u201d Sudhu also speaks about heading a small institutional trading team within Merrill Lynch and shares insight to its OTC dealings.\\nThen in the later part, we speak more about crypto and the efforts of CoinFLEX to become a market leading exchange.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'