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Podcast

What Markets Are Telling Us Now: A 2026 Conversation with Dave Nadig

ETF.com's Dave Nadig is back on Boxes and Lines for our annual check-in on what's going to actually matters in markets for the year ahead.

Equities trading
ETFs
Market policy
Regulation
Podcast

The Better Halves of Boxes and Lines: A Holiday Special!

In this very special holiday edition of Boxes and Lines, Ronan and JR once again hand over the mics to the people who know them best (and roast them best), their spouses.

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Podcast

Boxes and Lines Light: The 2025 Year-End Recap

From the industry’s sprint toward extended hours to retail’s continued dominance to the ongoing debate around tokenization, Ronan and JR are breaking down the year's top stories.

Retail trading
Regulation
Article

IEX: A Top-Three Displayed Venue and Still First In Performance

A closer look at our displayed trading growth. ‍

Lit trading
Podcast

Breaking the Rules with the Motley Fool's David Gardner

Ronan and JR sit down with David Gardner — co-founder of investor education juggernaut The Motley Fool, host of podcast Rule Breaker Investing, and author of a new book by the same title, Rule Breaker Investing: How to Pick the Best Stocks of the Future and Build Lasting Wealth.

Equities trading
Podcast

Our 2025 Interns Take the Mic

Ronan and JR sit down with members of IEX’s 2025 summer intern class, mostly incoming seniors in engineering, marketing, finance, and cybersecurity, for a conversation that spans Gen Z in the workplace, what they’ve learned at IEX, and their hopes (and hot takes) on the future of work and life. T

Inside IEX
Podcast

Bingo! With T. Rowe Price’s Mett Kinak

Ronan and JR welcome back Mett Kinak, Head of Global Trading at T. Rowe Price, for some real talk covering market fragmentation, private rooms, and more.

Equities trading
Podcast

Boxes and Lines Lite - Welcome to the Pennyverse

From wild one-day volume spikes in penny stocks to distorted exchange market share and rebate incentives, Ronan and JR chat about how a handful of ultra-low-priced names are reshaping the trading landscape, and why it’s not just noise.

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Podcast

Boxes and Lines Lite: Tokenization: Back to the Future Again

Tokenization. You’ve been hearing about it since 2017. So have we. In this short, unfiltered episode of Boxes and Lines, Ronan and JR unpack the hype around tokenizing stocks — what it actually means, what it changes , and what ends up left out of the conversation. They get into the post-trade plumbing, investor protections, regulatory realities, and why, in JR’s words, “Trading on the blockchain doesn’t actually eliminate the need for any of that.”‍‍

Blockchain Technology
Podcast

Boxes and Lines Lite: The 3% Myth (feat. Matt Weinberg & Sam Stevens)

IEX is often labeled a "3% market share" venue, but what does that number really reflect? In this Boxes and Lines Lite, Ronan and JR chat with IEX’s Matt Weinberg (Head of Business Development) and Sam Stevens (Head of Business Analytics) to discuss a clearer way to think about institutional-accessible liquidity. They break down why total market share can be a misleading benchmark for routing, how "Institutional Market Share" better reflects where orders can actually interact, and what firms might be missing by benchmarking to the wrong number.

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Article

What Really Matters in a Data Feed?

Balancing Cost, Coverage, and Performance with IEX.

Market data
Podcast

The IEX Options Episode – With John Palmer and Ivan Brown

Ronan and JR welcome John Palmer and Ivan Brown, who are leading IEX’s charge into the options market. They get into what makes options different from equities, explain the rise of 0DTE (zero-day-to-expiration) contracts, and talk about the unique risks market makers face in a quote-driven ecosystem.

IEX Exchange
Regulation
Retail trading
Equities trading
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