Financial Services

Kevin Warsh and the Future Direction for Rates

Jul. 28, 2026

Guests: Gennadiy Goldberg, Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, TD Securities and Scott Smith, Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Specialty Sales, TD Securities

Host: Jaret Seiberg, Managing Director, Washington Research Group - Financial Services Policy Analyst, TD Cowen

TD Cowen financial policy analyst Jaret Seiberg hosts TD Cowen's Two Cents Podcast, which this month features a conversation with Gennadiy Goldberg, the head of rates strategy at TD Securities. We revisit our conversation from earlier this year on the new Federal Reserve chair and evaluate Kevin Warsh's first few weeks on the job. We consider what the move could mean for interest rates going forward. In addition, TD Cowen specialty salesperson Scott Smith gives an assessment of bank earnings season.

This podcast was originally recorded on July 14, 2026

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Gennadiy Goldberg
Gennadiy Goldberg
Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, TD Securities

Biography

Gennadiy is Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, providing market commentary on interest rates and the U.S. economy and focusing on Treasuries, swaps, TIPS, and supranational and agency debt. He also focuses on US fiscal dynamics, monetary policy functioning issues, and front-end markets. Gennadiy was ranked top five in the Federal Agency Debt Strategy category in the Institutional Investor’s All-America Fixed Income Research team surveys between 2017 and 2021.

Scott Smith
Scott Smith
Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Specialty Sales, TD Securities

Biography

Scott Smith is a Managing Director and Head of Financial Services Specialty Sales at TD Securities in New York. He has over 30 years of institutional sales experience, having led FIG Specialty Sales at Credit Suisse and BofA for 17 years. Scott has also worked in financials specialty sales at JPM and at Lehman Brothers. He began his career in equity research at Lehman Brothers covering the business services sector with a focus on payments companies. Scott graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Psychology.

Jaret Seiberg
Jaret Seiberg
Managing Director, Washington Research Group - Financial Services Policy Analyst, TD Cowen

Biography

Jaret Seiberg is the financial services and housing policy analyst for TD Cowen Washington Research Group, which was recently named #1 in the Institutional Investor Washington Strategy category. The team has been consistently ranked among the top macro policy teams for the past decade. Before joining TD Cowen in August 2016, he served in similar roles at Guggenheim Securities, MF Global, Concept Capital and Stanford Financial Group. He began following financial policy in the early 1990s as a journalist covering efforts in Congress to complete the last of the laws from the savings and loan crisis. He tracked the merger wave of the 1990s and Glass-Steagall repeal in 1999 as the deputy Washington bureau chief for American Banker and as the Washington bureau chief for The Daily Deal. His bailiwick at TD Cowen includes issues related to commercial banks, housing, payments, investment banking, M&A, taxes, the CFPB, crypto currency, cannabis and Capitol Hill.

Mr. Seiberg has a BA from The American University and an MBA from the University of Maryland at College Park. He speaks regularly at industry events, is often quoted in the media, and appears on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.

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