Blythe Masters

The idea that commodities, as an asset class, is finished is just fundamentally flawed.

— Blythe Masters

I have a quantitative background, but really, derivatives appealed to me because they require so much creativity.

— Blythe Masters

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

— Blythe Masters

Digital Asset has a talented team and technology that is uniquely positioned to solve challenging settlement issues facing global financial institutions.

— Blythe Masters

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact…

— Blythe Masters

Distributed ledger technology is fashionable. In fact, if you could wear it, you'd put Ralph Lauren out of business, at least in…

— Blythe Masters

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

— Blythe Masters

Unfortunately, tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their own risk exposures properly.

— Blythe Masters

It is noticeable how many times you see a panel at a conference made up of all men or look into the…

— Blythe Masters

The Hyperledger Project is gaining traction on a daily basis, displaying how vital this effort is in advancing distributed ledger technology. Uniting…

— Blythe Masters

A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is…

— Blythe Masters

Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share…

— Blythe Masters

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin,…

— Blythe Masters

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality…

— Blythe Masters

Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of…

— Blythe Masters

In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to…

— Blythe Masters

The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.

— Blythe Masters

We all want a non-fragmented solution, but the utopian version of a single blockchain to rule them all is undesirable and impractical.

— Blythe Masters

Digital Asset has a revolutionary technology platform that eliminates the counterparty risk and lack of transparency that has hindered mainstream adoption of…

— Blythe Masters

I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of…

— Blythe Masters

The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology…

— Blythe Masters

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

— Blythe Masters

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace…

— Blythe Masters

The platforms that are big, global, diversified, and both financial and physically enabled are competitively much better positioned than those which are…

— Blythe Masters

If you exclude your talent base from the benefits of hiring and deploying and making women successful, you're going to do less…

— Blythe Masters

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

— Blythe Masters

With private chains, you can have a completely known universe of transaction processors. That appeals to financial institutions that are wary of…

— Blythe Masters

I spent my whole career thinking about risk, markets, infrastructure, and regulation. I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had…

— Blythe Masters

If you think about any multiparty process where shared information is necessary to the completion of transactions, and the coordination of activity…

— Blythe Masters

I would describe Hyperledger as a tremendous opportunity for collaboration for firms that range from gigantic commercial concerns all the way to…

— Blythe Masters

In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And…

— Blythe Masters

Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous…

— Blythe Masters

I had seen the financial crisis unfold, and I had seen the credit derivatives market get operationally ahead of itself, which resulted…

— Blythe Masters