Traders Horizon

This week’s guest is Arsalan Syed, a graduate in economics from the University of Texas at Austin, currently working as an analyst at S&P global Platts. There, together with the carbon team, he is building their low carbon oil price offerings. Before joining the carbon crew, Arsalan was part of the North American gas team, with a primary focus on developing Mexico and Brazil. Prior to all that, our guest worked on the development of the world’ first Hydrogen assessment.

We discussed, amongst other topics, The rise of carbon licenses, correlations between those and traditionally traded commodities, new market mechanisms to extract value from low emissions, the complexities of Hydrogen and how Texas is embracing the energy transition.

Traders Horizon is a podcast produced by ActivTrades and presented by Ricardo Evangelista. We invite guests with fascinating views to share and remarkable stories to tell. Our conversations cover a range of topics, including the financial markets, economics, geopolitics, entrepreneurship, and more; always looking for insightful trading ideas.

This week’s guest is Johann Wiebe, an experienced metals analyst who after 10 years at Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv and CRU, decided to take the plunge, founding Wiebe Commodity Consulting, a consultancy firm specialized in the fields of metals, energy transition and ESG. Our guest also runs The Hydrogen Standard, the go-to portal for all news updates related to the Hydrogen value chain and how it fits into the wider energy transition.

We discussed, amongst other topics, the takeaways from the latest COP gathering in Glasgow, greenwashing, reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 and the role of hydrogen in the transition. 

Traders Horizon is a podcast produced by ActivTrades and presented by Ricardo Evangelista. We invite guests with fascinating views to share and remarkable stories to tell. Our conversations cover a range of topics, including the financial markets, economics, geopolitics, entrepreneurship, and more; always looking for insightful trading ideas.

This week’s guest is Afonso Eça, a finance and digital transformation expert. Our guest co-founded Raize and oversaw its growth to become a leading online lender for SMEs and one of the largest investment communities in the Iberian Peninsula. He is also a professor at Nova School of Business, where he lectures and coordinates graduate level and executive education courses in finance. Before founding Raize, Afonso worked as a derivatives trader and portfolio manager in the hedge fund industry.

Traders Horizon is a podcast produced by ActivTrades and presented by Ricardo Evangelista. We invite guests with fascinating views to share and remarkable stories to tell. Our conversations cover a range of topics, including the financial markets, economics, geopolitics, entrepreneurship, and more; always looking for insightful trading ideas.

This week’s guest is Simone Mascagni, the COO and co-founder of Al.Ta Cuccina. Despite his youth our guest’s life has so far been eventfull. Born and raised in Italy, Simone graduated from central Saint Martin’s in London, having then worked as an advertiser creative for Anomaly, before his entrepreneurship saw him founding Wobu, Beelief and Al.ta Cuccina. In between all this, Simone Represented Italy in the Cannes Creativity Festival in 2013 and was named as one of the world’s 20 best young ads creative, in 2015,

Traders Horizon is a podcast produced by ActivTrades and presented by Ricardo Evangelista. We invite guests with fascinating views to share and remarkable stories to tell. Our conversations cover a range of topics, including the financial markets, economics, geopolitics, entrepreneurship, and more; always looking for insightful trading ideas.