Blythe Masters Concepts

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words

. Together, the Tapscotts have achieved this comprehensively and in doing so have captured the excitement, the potential, and the importance of this topic to everyone.” —Blythe Masters, CEO, Digital Asset Holdings “This is a book with the predictive quality of Orwell’s 1984 and the vision of Elon Musk. Read it or

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McKay, President and Chief Executive Officer, RBC Janna McManus, Global PR Director, BitFury Mickey McManus, Maya Institute Jesse McWaters, Financial Innovation Specialist, World Economic Forum Blythe Masters, CEO, Digital Asset Holdings Alistair Mitchell, Managing Partner, Generation Ventures Carlos Moreira, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, WISeKey Tom Mornini, Founder and Customer Advocate, Subledger Ethan

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space. He told us, “In five to ten years, the financial system may be unrecognizable . . . and I want to be part of the change.”6 Blythe Masters, formerly chief financial officer and head of Global Commodities at JP Morgan’s investment bank, launched a blockchain-focused technology start-up to transform the

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up in a big way,”17 said Austin Hill of Blockstream. He was speaking of the financial industry’s deep interest in blockchain technologies. Consider Blythe Masters, one of the most powerful people on Wall Street. She built JPMorgan’s derivatives and commodities desk into a global juggernaut and pioneered the derivatives

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regulatory point of view.”32 These permissioned blockchains, or private chains, appeal to traditional financial institutions wary of bitcoin and everything associated with it. While Blythe Masters is the CEO of a start-up, her keen interest represents broader involvement of traditional financial actors in this sector. This embrace of new technology

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, teller, janitor, and, yes, plumber. Suresh now knows the plumbing of banking. Many Wall Street veterans don’t see a battle between old and new. Blythe Masters believes there are “at least as many ways for banks to improve the efficiency and operations of Wall Street as there are opportunities for disruption

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men. In technology and engineering, males still outnumber females by a wide margin. However, high-profile women are founding and managing companies in the space: Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings; Cindy McAdam, president of Xapo; Melanie Shapiro, CEO of Case Wallet; Joyce Kim, executive director of Stellar Development Foundation; Elizabeth

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the Chamber for Digital Commerce, a trade-based association in Washington, D.C. Within a year, CDC has attracted a high-profile board (e.g., Blythe Masters, James Newsome, George Gilder). The movement needed “boots on the ground in Washington to open a dialogue with government,” she said. With her background in

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’t regulate software.”26 So regulations will be one of several important components. Blockchain is not like the Internet because money is different from information. Blythe Masters, consummate Wall-Street-insider-turned-blockchain-pioneer, expressed her concern: “Newcomers are simply able to do things that regulated institutions are not able to do

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_201501.pdf. 15. https://lightning.network/. 16. Interview with Chris Larsen, July 27, 2015. 17. Interview with Austin Hill, July 22, 2015. 18. Interview with Blythe Masters, July 27, 2015. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. Ibid. 22. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21007/nasdaq-selects-bitcoin-startup-chain-run-pilot-private-market-arm/. 23

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, 2015. 24. July 2015 by Greenwich Associates; www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-22/the-blockchain-revolution-gets-endorsement-in-wall-street-survey. 25. Blythe Masters, from Exponential Finance keynote presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ6WR2R1MnM. 26. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/21007/nasdaq-selects-bitcoin-startup-chain-run-pilot-private-market

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/07/on-public-and-private-blockchains/. 30. Interview with Chris Larsen, July 27, 2015. 31. Interview with Adam Ludwin, August 26, 2015. 32. Interview with Blythe Masters, July 27, 2015. 33. Interview with Eric Piscini, July 13, 2015. 34. Interview with Derek White, July 13, 2015. 35. Ibid. 36. Later, Bank of

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Pair, June 11, 2015. 49. Alex Tapscott has consulted to Vogogo Inc. 50. Interview with Suresh Ramamurthi, September 28, 2015. 51. E-mail correspondence with Blythe Masters, December 14, 2015. 52. Interview with Tom Mornini, July 20, 2015. 53. These ideas were originally explored in The Naked Corporation by Don Tapscott and

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, July 2, 2015. 25. Interview with Perianne Boring at Money 2020, October 26, 2015. 26. Interview with Joichi Ito, August 24, 2015. 27. Interview with Blythe Masters, July 29, 2015. 28. For a full list of all the major victories Lawsky achieved while superintendent of NYDFS, please visit www.dfs.ny.gov

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

by Gillian Tett · 11 May 2009 · 311pp · 99,699 words

stubborn stance when fighting for something he believed to be right. “Krishna is like my conscience!” Demchak liked to joke. A particularly notable hire was Blythe Masters, a young British woman. She was a pretty blonde with a slim frame and porcelain face, who spoke with a so-called BBC accent. She

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derivatives, we all knew there was a real need, a problem that had to be solved. So we all looked for ways to do that.” Blythe Masters fervently hunted for a way to make credit derivatives work, and eventually she spotted an opportunity at Exxon. In 1993, after Exxon was threatened with

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, or Varikooty. Masters herself sometimes worried about the risks of being in the spotlight. But nobody could deny that she was a highly effective marketer. “Blythe Masters still looks more like a J.P. Morgan intern (which she was ten years ago) than the head of the credit derivatives marketing team,” one

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tennis courts. Before the event, some of the J.P. Morgan team had worried whether they could attract enough clients to fill the grand space. Blythe Masters was determined, however, to bring in a good crowd. Soon after joining Demchak’s team, she had persuaded the group to start pooling details about

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now more innovative than banks.” Those members of the old team who stayed at the bank maintained a brave face. One of the loyalists was Blythe Masters, who was given control of credit policy after Demchak left. Another was Bill Winters, who continued to quietly run his trading empire in London. Tony

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banker was not doing his or her job. However, the top managers at J.P. Morgan found that the reports often provided useful comparative intelligence. Blythe Masters had particular reason to pay attention to what Oliver Wyman said. By that stage, Masters had moved a long way from the credit derivatives team

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’ vacation homes in Tuscany, the Hamptons, and other choice retreats. When Andrew Feldstein and Bill Demchak created a project to raise funds for Darfur refugees, Blythe Masters, Bill Winters, and many others rallied round with donations and support. Like any family, the group was also driven by petty rivalries, yet they almost

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inability of banks to think about the public good. A block away from BlueMountain’s offices, at JPMorgan Chase’s headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, Blythe Masters was embroiled in her own fights. She was no longer directly involved in the world of structured credit or derivatives, but instead running the commodities

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Peltz, Michael, “Congress’s Lame Assault on Derivatives,” Institutional Investor (December 1, 1994). Three: The Dream Team “Funnily enough,” she told a reporter: Fredrickson, Tom, “Blythe Masters, 34,” Crain’s New York Business (January 26, 2004). Moreover, the credit derivatives concept did not seem: For details of why Freund experimented with the

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Derivatives. “The pace of change in the way banks manage credit risk”: Asarnow, Elliot, The Journal of Lending and Credit Risk Management (September 1998), 13. “Blythe Masters still looks more like a J.P. Morgan intern”: The Journal of Lending and Credit Risk Management, 8. But they were also uneasy: For a

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Core: How a Staid Swiss Bank Let Ambitions Lead It into Folly,” Financial Times (April 21, 2008). “In the world I operate in”: Interview with Blythe Masters, February 2007, on womenworking2000.com. No author cited. http://www.womenworking2000.com/feature/index.php?id=94. Ten: Tremors In October 2006, Bill King, the

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, “View from the Top—Andrew Feldstein, Chief Executive of BlueMountain Capital,” Financial Times (December 19, 2008). One British newspaper dubbed her the woman: Teather, David, “Blythe Masters: The Woman Who Built Financial ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction,’” The Guardian (September 20, 2008). Angry postings on the internet: see http://www.blogher.com/blame

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-game-global-financial-collapse-fingers-are-pointing-one-woman-blythe-masters#comments; http://zionistgoldreport.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/scam-artist-blythe-masters-speaks. When she addressed a meeting of SIFMA in New York in late 2008: Masters, Blythe, opening comments; “Through the

Sabotage: The Financial System's Nasty Business

by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan · 28 Jan 2020 · 218pp · 62,889 words

financial industry, with the European Union actively encouraging the creation of the European capital market, with ‘high quality and liquid’ securitization deemed its main driver. BLYTHE MASTERS AND THE CDS18 Shortly after the revolutions launched by Milken and Ranieri, another visionary in another legendary institution would come across another opportunity

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. Blythe Masters and her team at J. P. Morgan would create and finesse a product which would spur the credit boom of 2002–7 and, employed as

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was ingenious and simple: why not insure the bank against those risks and pass them on to the insurer, thus freeing capital for other investment? Blythe Masters and her team at J. P. Morgan set off to seek such an insurer, and soon found one. American Insurance Group (AIG) was happy to

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the fall of their main insurer and a system-wide application of the security as tool of sabotage? Even in the wake of the crisis Blythe Masters would continue to defend her innovation, admitting nonetheless that ‘tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their

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transforms an economy, but ‘the carrying out of new combinations’ that works as the key driver of economic change.29 Michael Milken, Lewie Ranieri and Blythe Masters became celebrities in the world of finance and beyond. Their names feature in financial bestsellers and popular culture. But rarely is it the individual financier

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase

by Duff McDonald · 5 Oct 2009 · 419pp · 130,627 words

leather hat under glass. Beneath it, a clock was counting down to zero, with only 150 days remaining—a gift from the JPMorgan Chase executive Blythe Masters. “That’s going to be hard to chew,” he laughs. Dimon stepped down from the board of Yum! Brands when he became president of JPMorgan

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management team—hiring a trading standout, Matt Zames, from Credit Suisse; putting Carlos Hernandez in charge of equities; and moving the J.P. Morgan veteran Blythe Masters from the position of chief financial officer to overseeing commodities trading. They removed a number of management layers to enhance decision making and also revamped

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multibillion-dollar credit line with the bank in anticipation of having to pay substantial fines for the Exxon Valdez’s oil spill—Winters’s colleague Blythe Masters had found another investor willing to insure the debt for the bank in exchange for an annual fee. In the process, J.P. Morgan was

I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

by John Lanchester · 14 Dec 2009 · 322pp · 77,341 words

of it in reserve, just sitting there, instead of going out into the markets and making more money. At which thought, a lightbulb went on. Blythe Masters, one of the Boca Raton swaps team, came up with the idea of selling the credit line to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

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were being engineered down to a safe level. The other banks must be seeing some way of doing it which they couldn’t work out. Blythe Masters, the woman in charge of the Exxon Valdez deal and of selling the very first BISTRO bonds, and thus one of the creators of the

All the Devils Are Here

by Bethany McLean · 19 Oct 2010 · 543pp · 157,991 words

. President of ISDA from 1988 to 1992. Till Guldimann Executive who led the development of Value at Risk modeling and shared VaR with other banks. Blythe Masters Derivatives saleswoman who put together J.P. Morgan’s first credit default swap in 1994. Sir Dennis Weatherstone Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1994

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to be placed in reserve. The woman who came up with the idea of using a credit default swap to deal with this situation was Blythe Masters. Though she was not the head of the derivatives group, she was a key member of the team, a superb saleswoman who in later years

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the possibility of a company’s default, even if they had no economic interest in the company. In the late 1990s, the bank—again, with Blythe Masters leading the way—found a way to create a credit product that investors loved. It did so by ingeniously combining credit derivatives with securitization. Instead

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and a graduate of Brooklyn College, Cassano had learned the business by starting at the bottom and working his way up. It was Cassano who Blythe Masters first approached about getting involved in BISTRO, and it was Cassano who became the deal’s champion internally. The fees would likely be small—because

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar · 19 Oct 2017 · 416pp · 106,532 words

in North America in the fall of 2015 when two prominent financial magazines catalyzed awareness of the concept. First, Bloomberg Markets published an article titled “Blythe Masters Tells Banks the Blockchain Changes Everything: The banker who helped give the world credit-default swaps wants to upend finance again—this time with the

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.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarterlybulletin/2014/qb14q3digitalcurrenciesbitcoin1.pdf. 12. http://insidebitcoins.com/new-york/2015. 13. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-09-01/blythe-masters-tells-banks-the-blockchain-changes-everything. 14. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21677198-technology-behind-bitcoin-could-transform-how-economy-works-trust-machine. 15

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Feb 2018 · 348pp · 97,277 words

Foundation, it brings together the likes of IBM, Cisco, Intel, and Digital Asset Holdings, a digital ledger startup led by former J.P. Morgan powerhouse Blythe Masters. One mark of the business world’s enthusiasm is seen in the trajectory of media company CoinDesk’s Consensus conference, the marquee annual event for

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prompt a cascade of risk-averting actions that evolve into a self-perpetuating process of wanton wealth destruction. This systemic risk problem is what drew Blythe Masters, one of the key figures behind blockchain innovation on Wall Street, into digital ledger technology; she joined Digital Asset Holdings, a blockchain service provider for

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It

by Steven Brill · 28 May 2018 · 519pp · 155,332 words

soon be a way for wary buyers of mortgage-backed securities to pass off their own risk completely. The financial engineering hero this time was Blythe Masters, a twenty-five-year-old, Cambridge-educated banker in JPMorgan’s London office. In 1994, Masters invented the credit default swap, or CDS.* A CDS

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have much incentive to worry about the loans they were making, because they were going to sell the mortgages in giant tranches to those investors. Blythe Masters then made it so that the MBS investors didn’t have to care either; they could buy her credit default swaps, which were sold by

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some exceptions, the world does not divide that simply into black and white. Joe Flom, his raider-clients, the stock buyback engineers, Lew Ranieri and Blythe Masters, even Angelo Mozilo, didn’t set out to do harm, let alone create a crash that cost America $20 trillion in lost gross domestic product

SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World

by Sandra Navidi · 24 Jan 2017 · 831pp · 98,409 words

lower compensation for the same type, amount, and success of work.36 At the time of the book’s completion the lawsuit was still ongoing. Blythe Masters, one of Wall Street’s top female executives, ended her twenty-seven-year career at JPMorgan after the bank reported the sale of the global