Digital Asset Report

Shari Noonan - Co-Founder & CEO, Rialto Markets -  On this segment of FINTECH.TV's Digital Asset Report, our seasoned host, Vince Molinari, talks capital markets in the age of a hyperconnected digital economies with our distinguished guest, Shari Noonan, Co-Founder and CEO of Rialto Markets. From her electronic trading background - beginning with digitizing markets in the late 90s - Shari has a deep history with equities markets, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as COO of Trading as ATS' have created a regulated private capital markets framework. From OMS', ECNs, to ATS', these veterans cover the list of acronyms that are most important in the digitally connected New World.  Swaps, Equities, FX & the Evolution of Asset Classes -  Rialto has received approval from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to operate their broker-dealer (BD) and alternative trading system (ATS) under the Fourth Industrial Revolution of Digital Securities in the United States of America as domestic systems connect with global partners.  There are private markets with digital securities now able to trade using the "ecosystems" of ATS networks in the US, and additional nodes worldwide, in approved regulated domiciles; although, this doesn't mean there is liquidity at meaningful volumes for a high-velocity market. The rails and infrastructure are still coming online for mass adoption as reduction in friction is achieved.  These leaders of the Fourth Industrial Revolution are, together, greater than the sum of the whole of the parts. Thereby, catalyzing exponential growth in areas such as decentralized finance (DeFi), digital securities and compliant offerings that are compliant with state, regional and/or local regulators. Visit Rialto Markets on the Web: https://rialtomarkets.com Regulation A+: Railto & KoreConX -  Rialto is working with groups - such as Oscar Jofre's KoreConX, who was recently interviewed by FINTECH.TV - that have connected many of the USA's ATS's in a much-needed ecosystem to facilitate liquidity, price discovery, mark-to-market value pairing, and additional functions that are vital to the private capital markets having sustainable levels of liquidity. https://fintech.tv/digital-securities-2020/ Securing the Future: Rialto & Securrency -  Rialto is working with the best and brightest - such as Securrency, which was recently interviewed on FINTECH.TV; with the Securrency digital securities engine coming online as one of many base protocols in the New World that plugs into Rialto's core business.  https://fintech.tv/dan-doney-ceo-securrency/ DeFi: Pandora's Box to Scaling Exponential Liquidity - As CeFi goes to DeFi, or in plain English - the world evolving from Old World centralized banks to New World options that offer significantly expanded value - each player as Shari discusses above are necessary and needed in order to bring the systems online. In order to facilitate liquidity, leaders of the Fourth Industrial Revolution such as ErisX's Matt Trudeau must get the required elements implemented, adopted, adapted, and approved by regulators that are compliant with Rialto, Securrency, KoreConX, and many others for regulated & compliant private capital markets to one day have the liquidity for current "illiquid" assets.  https://fintech.tv/from-cefi-to-defi/

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

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.

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.

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.

The Cryptocurrency Market Maker for Institutions Max Boonen Founder at B2C2, the leading cryptocurrency market maker. They provide instant execution with the post-trade settlement, multi-currency expertise, flexible trade sizes, streaming prices, and fix connectivity. B2C2 makes simple to trade, connected to more than 20 exchanges commanding between 5 - 20% of the market and provides better pricing for their clients. To learn more about B2C2, go to b2c2.com.

Creating a Faster and Secure Place to Invest on Different Digital Assets - Our host Lawrence Wintermeyer speaks with Luc Falempin, CEO of Tokeny. Tokeny is the fast onboarding solution provider for companies implementing a cost-efficient management system for rapid transfers of private market securities for companies like PWC, Euronext, DLA Piper, and more. Solving the transition for private market stakeholders and bringing the security benefit of blockchain, Tokeny creates a secure and trusted place to issue, transfer, and manage digital securities. Tokeny has completed $375 billion of assets with real estate funds and other types of assets. To learn more about Tokeny visite their website at  https://tokeny.com/

Koine provides a digital infrastructure to financial services specifically custody of digital assets, real-time settlement, fiat and digital with an online access & API connectivity. Attracting institutional investors and fund managers of institutional capital by keeping their NO change requirement in; governance, compliance, framework and fund mandates, and keeping their existent market structure. Koine's key difference are their business and security model, keeping their competitor non-existent. To learn more about Koine visit https://www.koine.com/

R.P. Eddy, CEO of Argo talks with host Vince Molinari about his book, "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes," and his views on COVID-19 and how we move forward. www.ergo.net/covid19 www.ergo.net/the-forum

Alexandre Kech, CEO of Onchain Custodian talks with host Lawrence Wintermeyer about digital asset custody plus global regulation.

Graham Rodford, CEO and Co-founder of Archax talks with Digital Asset Report-London host Lawrence Wintermeyer about the next evolution of digital assets and the InterWork Alliance launch.