Blythe Masters Quotes

United Kingdom, Entrepreneur
March 22, 1969

Blythe Masters (born 22 March 1969) is a former executive at JPMorgan Chase. She is currently the CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, a financial technology firm developing distributed ledger technology for wholesale financial services. Masters is widely credited as the creator of the credit default swap as a financial instrument. She is also Chairman of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project, member of the International Advisory Board of Santander Group, and Advisory Board Member of the US Chamber of Digital Commerce.

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

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

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- Creativity

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

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

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

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- Single
I think the most important thing to understand about credit derivatives and their use at JPMorgan is they served a number of different purposes. First and foremost, they were a tool which initially was seen as being useful in managing the bank's own risk management challenges.

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- Different
- Important
- Risk
I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

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- Motivated
Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.

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