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Future of Finance Interviews
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GLEIF takes on the blockchain interoperability conundrum
There are two main obstacles to the scaling of the markets in digital assets and one of them is the lack of interoperability between blockchain networks and between blockchain networks and traditional financial markets. The default answer, hallowed by history in multiple industries, is standards. By enabling different networks to exchange data, they multiply the overall volume of counterparties and transactions.
Sep 2


Digital depositary receipts mark fresh advance for tokenised financial assets
In 2026 Kalyp Technologies celebrates the tenth anniversary of its foundation as a provider of blockchain infrastructure to the regulated capital markets. It is an ambition that has required patience as well as more obvious resources, since securing the regulatory endorsement on which institutional engagement depends is a lengthy process. But now the company has built an open financial market infrastructure of its own, the Digital Securities Depositary Corporation (DSDC), and
Sep 2


Programmable Payments integrated with Current Accounts
A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network. A Future of Finance interview with Quant...
Jun 23


Positioning client experience at the heart of innovation strategy
A Future of Finance interview with Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge. Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge,...
Jun 9


Combining tokenisation and securitisation to simplify private market access
A Future of Finance interview with Milo Guastamacchia, Founder and CEO or Yooro. Technology-driven securitisation platform Yooro aims to...
May 15


Exploring convergence opportunities across private and public ecosystems
A Future of Finance interview with Richard Brown, Chief Technology and Product Officer at R3. R3 celebrates its tenth anniversary this...
May 1


Operationalising CDM to drive post-trade automation for collateralised transactions
A Future of Finance interview with Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal & Product Officer at Tokenovate. Tokenovate delivers post-trade...
Mar 19


California Tokenisation Pioneer uses AI and Interoperability to Scale Real-World Asset Transformation
A Future of Finance interview with Sanjeev Birari, Co-Founder and CBO of Zoniqx. Zoniqx, the California based pioneer of tokenisation...
Feb 12


Making tokenisation happen at scale
How the obstacles to scalable tokenisation are being cleared, with special guests Andreas Ruflin of BX Digital and Benedikt Schuppli of...
Oct 21, 2024


The secrets of the unusually successful Provenance Blockchain
A Future of Finance Interview with Anthony Moro, Chief Executive Officer, and Ira Miller, Vice President, Engineering, at Provenance...
Aug 23, 2024


Apex is writing the guide to servicing the tokenised funds of the future
A Future of Finance Interview with Apex Group founder and CEO Peter Hughes and Head of Digital Assets Bruce Jackson. The Apex Group has...
Jun 18, 2024


Nadine Chakar on the future of tokenisation
A Future of Finance Interview with Nadine Chakar, Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Assets at DTCC With the acquisition in...
Jun 4, 2024


In the primary debt capital markets NowCM has found a formula for success that eluded others
A Future of Finance interview with Robert Koller, Founder and CEO at NowCM, and Jochen Metzger, Global Head of Markets at NowCM. The...
May 21, 2024


If you want great criticisms of Bitcoin, follow the Bitcoin bear
A Future of Finance interview with Jürgen Schaaf, Advisor of Market Infrastructure and Payments at the European Central Bank After...
May 20, 2024


How TCS succeeds in places where the present constraints the future
A Future of Finance interview with Vivek Ramgopal, President of Banking, Financial Services, and Insurances Products & Platforms at Tata...
May 17, 2024


If banks want things to change, says the RLN, things will have to stay as they are
A Future of Finance interview with Tony Mclaughlin, Emerging Payments and Business Development at Citi The Regulated Liability Network...
May 1, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – Are the commercial opportunities in digital assets compelling enough to overcome the fear of disruption?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant. Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings...
Apr 16, 2024


Digital Asset has built the tools to tokenise assets and is now encouraging network effects
A Future of Finance interview with Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, and Eric Saraniecki, co-founder and head of strategic...
Apr 9, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – How can blockchain-based token networks achieve full inter-operability?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and...
Apr 8, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can be done now to overcome the absence of digital money on blockchain networks?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant. Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings...
Apr 3, 2024


How to make the digital asset markets grow – What can governments do to encourage the growth of digital asset markets?
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant Tokenised assets markets, though rich in the promise of cost savings and...
Mar 28, 2024


Tokenbridge believes the funds industry will tokenise from the periphery not the centre
A Future of Finance interview with Stephen Ashurst, CEO of Tokenbridge Tokenbridge is a software company which has embraced a tokenised...
Mar 15, 2024


A European blockchain-based funds marketplace that is delivering on its promises
A Future of Finance Interview with Christophe Lepitre, CEO at IZNES and Valérie Gilles, CCO at IZNES IZNES is a marketplace that enables...
Mar 15, 2024


The clue is not in the name: AsiaNext is thinking globally not regionally
A Future of Finance interview with Neil Thomas, Chief Commercial Officer of AsiaNext. AsiaNext, a 24/7, Singapore-based...
Feb 7, 2024


21X: The European token exchange with a reassuringly German personality
A Future of Finance interview with Max Heinzle, CEO of 21X 21X is a Frankfurt-headquartered token issuance, trading and settlement...
Jan 24, 2024


The Swiss token exchange creating a market for small company shares
A Future of Finance interview with Nicola Plain, CEO of Aktionariat. Success in tokenising equity is unusual. Most issues of tokens are...
Dec 21, 2023


What We Know and Do Not Know About CBDCs (So Far)
A Future of Finance interview with Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at R3. A year and a half may have elapsed since the last central bank...
Dec 18, 2023


The exchange with an insatiable appetite to disrupt
A Future of Finance interview with Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis Exchange Competition in equities trading in developed markets is now so...
Nov 21, 2023


Nasdaq explains how CSDs and CCPs can evolve their technology and embrace tokenisation
A Future of Finance interview with Gerard Smith, vice president and head of product-digital assets, at Nasdaq (Marketplace Technology). ...
Oct 5, 2023


The first priority in data is to manage the compliance risk
A Future of Finance interview with Peter Gargone, CEO of n-Tier Financial Services. Data is now at the heart of every efficiency...
Sep 20, 2023


UNTITLED GEN aims to become the Aladdin of the digital art market
A Future of Finance interview with Clemens Wessendorff and Simon Zimmerman, the co-founders of UNTITLED GEN. In the minds of many, the...
Aug 8, 2023


The mint that manufactures notes and coins in digital form
A Future of Finance interview with Jonathan Dharmapalan, CEO of eCurrency. 130 central banks around the world are now exploring the...
Jul 13, 2023


InvestaX founder agrees that tokenisation is synonymous with institutional DeFi
A Future of Finance interview with Alice Chen, Co-founder, COO and General Counsel at InvestaX. InvestaX is a tokenisation platform for...
Jun 23, 2023


FundGuard offers asset managers a new way to fix their rising cost problems
Future of Finance interview with John Lehner, President at FundGuard. The asset management industry has grown fat on a quarter-century...
Jun 8, 2023


Montis is scripting more than one possible future for CSDs
A Future of Finance interview with Martin Watkins, CEO at Montis Group. The existence of Montis, which is building an infrastructure to...
May 30, 2023


SDX is betting on openness to accelerate the adoption of tokenised assets
A Future of Finance interview with Alex Kech, Head of Digital Securities at SDX SDX, the exchange for digital assets built and operated...
May 24, 2023


Stablecoins are not the destination but a stepping stone on the journey towards programmable money
A Future of Finance interview with Gilbert Verdian, CEO of Quant It is easy to fall into the trap of treating monetary innovations such...
May 24, 2023


D7 is an invisible bridge between digital assets and traditional securities markets
A Future of Finance interview with Michael Crezelius, Head of the Issuer CSD at Clearstream, and Thilo Derenbach, Head of...
Mar 16, 2023


A thousand dApps will bloom on the solid foundations of CBDCs
A Future of Finance interview with Ricardo Correia, Head of Digital Currencies at R3. The decision by regulators to bring bank-issued...
Feb 6, 2023


360X is turning the idea of tokenising the fine arts into reality
A Future of Finance interview with Fabian Schaum, Co-founder and CIO at 360x. Tokenisation may be making limited headway in the...
Jan 18, 2023


Bosonic reinvents the operational infrastructure for digital asset traders
A Future of Finance interview with Rosario Ingargiola, Founder and CEO of Bosonic. The summer of 2022 marked the end of the age of...
Jan 12, 2023


SDX says SMEs are the key to the growth of digital asset markets
A Future of Finance interview with Massimo Butti, Head of Equities at SDX. Four years have elapsed since the Swiss stock exchange (SIX)...
Jan 5, 2023


Vertalo reinvents transfer agency for the age of digital assets
A Future of Finance interview with Dave Hendricks, CEO and Founder of Vertalo. Digital asset enthusiasts are finding that neither issuers...
Dec 20, 2022


STOmaker promises to cut the cost of a security token issue by 90 per cent
A Future of Finance interview with Evangelos Lianos, Co-founder of STOmaker. One major frustration for digital asset markets enthusiasts...
Nov 21, 2022


Regulation plus digital identity is the key to the future of blockchain-based financial markets
A Future of Finance interview with Joseph Weinberg, co-founder of the Shyft Network. The slow and steady convergence of blockchain-based...
Oct 21, 2022


SupraOracles is conquering the compromises imposed by the Blockchain Trilemma
A Future of Finance interview with Heslin Kim, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder of SupraOracles. The future of blockchain now hinges...
Sep 1, 2022


Data provides the prices that drive activity in tokenised asset markets
A Future of Finance interview with Pat LaVecchia, CEO of Oasis Pro and Patrick O'Meara, Chairman and CEO of Inveniam Capital Partners....
Aug 31, 2022


SDX services non-custodial Ethereum staking service is live
A Future of Finance interview with Alex Smith, Crypto Product Lead at SDX. SDX, the digital arm of the Swiss stock exchange, has launched...
Aug 30, 2022


Blockchain technology is not enough to build a global digital debt market
A Future of Finance interview with Daniel Kilenberger, CTO at FQX and Benedikt Schuppli, CEO at FQX FQX is a blockchain-based issuance...
Aug 26, 2022


The blockchain protocol that has put digital identity at the heart of its strategy
A Future of Finance interview with Kare Kjelstrom, CTO at Concordium. Concordium is a Layer 1, Proof-of-Stake blockchain with its own...
Aug 25, 2022
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