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BREAKING "XBTO is launching a new $80M venture fund with Greg Carson leading this new vehicle as CEO." Philippe Bekhazi Overview On this segment of Digital Asset Report, our host Vince Molinari had the great pleasure to be joined by our accomplished guest, Philippe Bekhazi, Founder and CEO of XBTO.  From his finance background - primarily as a macro trader - he has always been fascinated by technology, having built his first computer at the age of 13. Philippe understood the bitcoin whitepaper, the DLT space, and opportunities earlier than most, thereby, creating XBTO in 2015 as a cutting-edge provider for stablecoins, institutional-grade liquidity, and general global access to cryptofinance.  Right Time, Right Place, Right Execution "Luck and preparation" at the right time are exponentially significant if recognized with follow-thru execution as Philippe did early on with blockchain, bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and the ever-growing need for institutional-grade liquidity. XBTO is a significant player in the blockchain, DLT, and venture capital space that genuinely differentiates the firm - having started primarily as a liquidity provider. They exponentially grew to offer OTC trading, asset management (via a beta fund), venture capital, crypto-mining, and special projects.  Smart Money Investors As providers of liquidity, XBTO looks at not just providing capital. They also look at how they can be the "smart money" entrepreneurs seek out that best fit their start-up/venture. One such example XBTO has invested in early is Deribit - a leading crypto futures exchange/derivatives trading platform; along with XMargin- a bilateral options trading platform with a specific approach that fits the philosophy.  Investing + Philosophy = Success Philippe and the team at XBTO think ten years in the future - knowing that more players will enter the space. This sentiment creates additional opportunity, increasing the velocity of capital, and bridging dislocated gaps that fractionalize value in today's society.  In this spirit of removing friction and delivering prosperity around the world, XBTO has invested and supported several portfolio companies with differentiated offerings in the DLT space. Blockchain is the way to enable the free-flow of value around the world in a trusted, trustless system (cost-effective, fast, transparent, and inclusive). Visit XBTO on the web:  https://www.xbto.com/ Portfolio Companies: https://www.deribit.com/ http://xmargin.io/ https://www.lukka.tech/ https://www.stablehouse.io/ Follow Philippe on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/philippebek

George Taylor, CEO & President of TRU Colors, along with Khalilah Olokunola and Ant Brumm, join TheIMPACT host, Jeff Gitterman, to discuss what happened to George that drove him to create TRU Colors that also can be watched in the recent documentary. Simply, by being aware, we can open up conversations and dialogue to understand why gangs were created, why they continue to be a foundation for low-income socioeconomic communities, and how best to utilize the "banger" skill-set in sales, business development, and general entrepreneurship. Khalilah leads human resources as Executive Vice President, managing compliance and promoting the general culture of TRU Colors while Ant leads community development. Khalilah was arrested, charged and served four-years in prison. Having received multiple certifications and higher-education degrees, her "street education" was what really prepared her for the current role as EVP of HR at TRU Colors. The desire to see change, help those that need a hand from a friend, and bring the level of professionalism that helps drive self-determination, she and her team at TRU Colors apply "real world" out-of-the-box thinking that touches all aspects of society in order to change perception as empathy is achieved. Ant Brumm was hire by Khalilah as a Community Ambassador - described as bold and really wanting to give back. He has completed multiple programs in TRU Colors, born and raised in Newark, New Jersey his mother passed at the young age of two. Having then grown up in foster homes, meeting his "homies" on the street made him feel at home, which then led him to prison. During his tenure behind bars, he learned about TRU Colors and used this time as an opportunity which has led him to his current path as the "feet on the street" bridging gaps, working with his community and engaging directly with gangs crossing "tracks" that others have never crossed. Ant is the perfect example of someone taking responsibility for their own determination by finding his tribe at TRU Colors. As he states, "Everyone deserves to be treated like a human being" which is the ultimate thread as Black Lives Matter protests are on-going in cities throughout America and the world. Lastly, the distinguished group discusses white privilege and how we need to amplify this important discussion for a top-of-mind solution. To learn more about TRU Colors, please visit TRUColors.co

Sir Ronald Cohen - Co-founder of Apax Partners; Chairman Steering Group for Impact Invest; and Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures - joins FINTECH.TV Co-founder and host, Vincent Molinari, to discuss "Ronnie's" journey. Ronnie's adventure began when he left Egypt at the age of 11, fleeing to the United Kingdom and being accepted as a fellow human of life - where he attended Oxford and then continued his studies at Harvard Business School. Receiving the help he did, that made profound differences in his life, illustrated how important it was for Ronnie to give back in the ways he knows best by "innovating, agitating and orchestrating the advance of impact investments and impact economies around the world." In his new book, Sir Ronald Cohen has painted the symbol of capital in the forms of empathy, altruism and Adam Smith's invisible hand as directly implicated in social impact and sustainable investing...the ability to think differently for humanity with love as the anchor. In looking today at ESG, the numbers now exceed $30 trillion. The trends are the trends, says Ronnie, with the numbers speaking for themselves. The preferences of consumers, companies and governments are shifting exponentially with a need for transparency to catalyze the shift to measuring impact as a primary pillar of capitalism. COVID-19 puts everything back to the basics, into perspective and illustrates the lack of transparency to measure and manage impact. Data and technology now make it possible to do this, as referenced by a recent Harvard Business School study Sir Ronald discusses with Vincent Molinari that creates an end-to-end relationship. To learn more about Apax Partners, please visit: https://www.apax.com/contact-us/offices/london/sir-ronald-cohen/ Watch the legend, Sir Ronald Cohen, in action via: https://sirronaldcohen.org/

Our host, Vincent Molinari of FINTECH.TV on this segment of the Digital Asset Report proudly discusses with Moiz Kohari, Co-founder of Manetu (Native American word for "Spirit") - a leading pioneer for the next major sector in digital assets - self-sovereign identity; with its end-to-end Consumer Privacy Management platform. Moiz previously held senior roles at the London Stock Exchange Group, State Street Bank, Novel, and others along with his co-founder, David Harris, who was the CEO of the Chicago Board Options Exchange for over ten years. They have a profound understanding of regulatory, compliance, rules, and how we are evolving in this digital transformation around the globe. Manetu is a robust rights management, identity management and requests platform that provides transparency of the data to the owner, in real-time among other capabilities. Simply, they help enterprises discover, map the data, pull and aggregate the data and, therefore, manage the data along with an "identity master" that confirms a data subject is true. They are using some of the most secure, advanced, and next-generation primitives in order to give the people what they want...control over your data with 84% responding to this effect. By reducing the average request load of 15 hours down to minutes, Manetu utilizes both on and off-chain technologies with background such as hyperledger. Transaction and notarization is the primary blockchain uses with many security principles built from the ground-up in order to make sure the platform was truly scalable. To learn more about Manetu, please visit them on the web here: https://www.manetu.com/ Connect with Moiz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moizkohari/

Demystifying Exponential Changes - Matt Trudeau, Chief Product & Strategy Officer at ErisX, joins FINTECH.TV host, Vince Molinari, on Digital Asset Report. With investments from Consensys, Fidelity, Nasdaq, Ameritrade, New York Digital Investment Group, Pantera Capital, and other powerhouses, the platform is upgrading the digital asset trading experience for institutions and individuals.  "The only thing new under the sun is the history that you don't know." - Matt Tradeau, ErisX Matt's past centralized limit order-book business (CeFi) has taught him and his team a myriad of essential lessons that decentralized finance (DeFi) must adapt, incorporate, and safeguard to scale the future at the speed of exponential advancements.  As people participate in new markets, cryptocurrency regulation, transparency, and compliance play essential roles to ensure that operators of markets are competent, properly managing risk, and conflict of interest(s). Book recommendations from Matt for newbies in the regulated market - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator The Coffee Trader Watch the full video to learn more about ErisX Centralized Order Book, 24/7 Trading Structure, and Ether Futures.

Bonnie Lyn De Bartok, Founder & CEO at S-Factor, joins our host, Jeff Gitterman, on TheIMPACT to discuss the importance of sustainability, vis-a-vis the "S", in ESG/SDG as she uses her 25+ years of experience to measure "saving the world" beyond "one project at a time." Specifically, Bonnie understood the need to focus on capital formation, access to funding and the framework of how social management integrates empirically into investment business cases. Today, S-Factor has evolved into a subject matter firm for artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and deep technology to understand behaviors, outcomes and financial correlations, thereof. The team at S-Factor tackles problems such as a community impact for mining projects, measuring jobs creation and how government programs can enhance or not through a real net-benefit standards of measurement. Understanding what happens when anchor businesses for micro economies have profound impact on the future of communities, macro implications and how to position sustainability as a primary pillar for investments. The impact on humanity is directly influenced through sustainable investment strategies, tactical implementations and empirical measurement of qualitative, quantitative and potent indicators as exponential change occurs. As global capital is invested locally around the world, the lens of sustainability is important for balancing investment funding and growing industries - especially mining, oil, gas, and similar businesses that are indirectly exposed. Measuring social impact is general across industries, businesses and communities with local considerations that include ethics, employee population, supply chain, and additional factors. Bonnie has seen an increase in demand for the data sets her firm produces at S-Factor, along with companies that have incorporated "S" into their investment strategies, asset allocation and overall exposure doing the best as we battle through COVID to a post-COVID world calibrated for humanity in the New World. In the many discussions on-going, from mission driven to reduction of carbon output, the "S" as a Layer 1 lens is quickly being adopted as the net bottom-line financial impacts have become clear from investors to those within communities, end-to-end. To learn more thesfactor.co

The Institutional Digital Asset Trading Exchange holds one of the most prominent institutional venture capital from the GCC (Mubadala Ventures) as one of their seed investors. On the first Digital Asset Report from Abu Dhabi, our host Rachel Pether speaks with Basil Al Askari, CEO & Co-founder of MidChains. "Back in the earliest 2017, we (the Founders of MidChains) understood the true potential impact of Blockchain technology, especially in the capital market space that leads us to pursue building up infrastructure that could be regulated in Abu Dhabi." MidChains vision is to be a one-stop multi-asset market venue for all investors. Watch the video to learn more about their newest investor (MIAX), global developments, how they were affected with COVID-19, and the future of MidChains in 6 - 12 months. Would you like to know more about our future interviews before they are released? Sign-up to our weekly schedule.

Are you an asset manager, investment consultant, nonprofit, or individual who would like to invest in long-term financial, environmental, and social success? On this segment of TheIMPACT, our host Jeffrey Gitterman, talks with Jim Roach, AIF®, Senior Vice President Retirement Strategies at Natixis, Sarah Bratton Hughes, Head of Sustainability in North America at Schroders and Georges Dyer, Co-founder & Executive Director at Intentional Endowments Network (IEN). IEN is a peer learning network of colleges, universities, and other mission-driven institutional investors working together to achieve a thriving and sustainable economy. Watch the full video to learn about retirement plans, sustainable investing, adoption of ESG funds, COVID-19 effects, and endowment funds. To learn more about IEN, please visit intentionalendowments.org

On today’s segment of the Digital Asset Report, our host, Lawrence Wintermeyer, uncovers the greatest value opportunity for humanity with Ami Ben-David & Anthony Woolley of Ownera. ALERT: Digitizing private capital markets globally upgrades fundraising, secondary trading, trust and transparency for small to medium businesses that need new forms up help in a post-COVID world. Please join our host, Lawrence Wintermeyer, Anthony Wooley, Director and Strategic Advisor at Ownera and Ami Ben-David, Co-founder & CEO at Ownera to learn about the open-standards that are now available with institutional stakeholders, financial institutions and retail investors to access capital markets with digital capabilities as adoption occurs, protocols are matured and depth of liquidity is exponentially made available through decentralized finance tools. From AML/KYC standards to atomic swaps for liquid markets to underwriting nodes run by trillion-dollar financial institutions, Ami Ben-David founded Ownera to remove friction as “it’s time to move to the digital age.” The steering group that has organically grown to foster this global private markets network now consists of the largest fund managers, finance groups, investment banks, and exchanges around the world. The non-standardized documents, issuance, trading and marking assets to the market has been the friction of the past that Ownera and its partners are building the digital bridge to the future for the long-term. Portability of value, compliance for regulators that is levels above the “Dark Ages” of today, and access to capital for entrepreneurs, business owners and risk-takers provides unrealized opportunities for humanity to measure the impact of this paradigm shift.

On this segment of Millennials Matter, our host, Georgia Fairweather, covers the sustainable pearl farming enterprise founded and operated by Justin Hunter, CEO of J. Hunter Pearls, based in Fiji. Pearls are initially based on the extraction as it is a luxury industry - economic mining. Pearl farming is a unique practice as it is 100% sustainable with environmental protections connected with the "blue economy." Justin's sustainable pearl farming business engages with local communities rather than commoditizing the industry and what it produces. Island economies have a paradigm-shifting opportunity for sustainable companies that utilize technology, blockchain, AI, and similar infrastructure tools. Consumers of today want more...such as responsible stakeholders that reinvest and aligned with their values in ways that are measured, tracked, and impacted measured. Justin shares some of his past challenges, how they "weathered the storm," and were able to get back up on the front lines to address marine conversation issues through capitalism with consciousness ideals. To learn more about their work with the United Nations, island nations, and how his company is addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by resetting the way the economy works, watch the 15-minute interview here: https://fintech.tv/invest-in-the-oceans-with-pearls/

Lakshmi Pratury, Founder and CEO of INK, explains how technology can bring the world together for a real, tangible, measurable, and impactful world that is exponentially improved as compared to what we could only imagine even a decade ago. Our host, Vince Molinari and INK Founder, Lakshmi Pratury, cover everything from story telling to data connectivity (the "pipeline") and how Moore's Law has enabled this incredible opportunity to break down barriers. People from different disciplines have the opportunity now to come together - Indian proverb style - matriarchal and patriarchal with half woman, half man. Under precepts such as these for our foundational theories of SDGs into reality that is achieved, anything is possible. In order to accomplish real, exponential change, women have a unique opportunity to exert their stored power that has been ready to unleash for far, far too long. Most exciting, the convergence of Lakshmi and Kunal Sood's conference under the NOVUS brand is the practice of women and men coming together - for humanity. Getting down to the bottom of what "really, really matters" that has been accelerated during COVID-19. Everyone is thrilled about this upcoming event together on July 20th and 21st.