Stablecoins – Episode 1: Seamus Donoghue, METACO Business Development VP, and Kalin Nicolov, SICPA Head of Digital Currency Initiatives, explain what are stablecoins, its applications, and notable examples, in this new episode of #METACO Talks.

For this METACO TALKS episode, we were joined by Kelly Chia, Deputy Head of Research Asia, Bank Julius Baer, covering digital assets, macro strategy, ESG and thematic investing.

Prior to joining Bank Julius Baer in 2011, Kelly worked for Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.

Graduating as an engineer from Nanyang Technological University, he first worked at a General Electric joint venture designing complex repairs for aircraft engines. Mr. Chia then transited into business development with the Singapore government and finally made the leap to be a sell-side analyst for OCBC Bank and Standard Chartered more than a decade ago.

Topics covered
– Crypto winter and industry seasonality
– Utility vs. yield
– Institutional approach: demand and supply of services

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice.

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METACO TALKS
Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity.

This show is hosted by METACO – the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem.

For this episode of METACO TALKS, we were joined by Nitin Gaur, Managing Director at State Street Digital, a division of State Street Bank focusing on digital assets and technologies including cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currency, blockchain, and tokenization. Nitin leads the digital asset and technology design, with aspirations to transition part of the company’s financial market infrastructure and its clients to the new digital economy.

In a previous role, Nitin, served as the founder and director of IBM Digital Asset Labs — committed to devising industry standards, use cases and working toward making blockchain for enterprise a reality. In parallel, Nitin also served as chief technology officer of IBM World Wire — a cross-border payment solution utilizing digital assets. Nitin also founded IBM Blockchain Labs and led the effort in establishing blockchain practice for the enterprise.

In this episode, we discussed, among others:
– The current state and pre-requisites to tokenization
– Overcoming the regulatory and compliance issues in the recent market events
– The current state of the market, its (un)structure and the history of the promise of crypto

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice.

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Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity.

This show is hosted by METACO – the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem.

Our guest for this METACO TALKS episode is Laurent Marochini, Head of Innovation at Société Générale Securities Services (SGSS), based in Luxembourg. Since 2018, Laurent is Blockchain Leader for the Group and founder of the Innovation Lab #LePlateauLUX

Laurent is highly involved in the Fintech ecosystem. He is Co-Chairman of the ALFI (Association Luxembourgeoise des fonds investissements) Working Group Blockchain & Crypto Currencies and Member of the Fintech & Digital Executive Committee, President of the taskforce Blockchain and Crypto at the LHoFT (Luxembourg House of Financial Technology), as well as Vice Chairman at ABBL (Association Banques et Banquiers Luxembourgeois) for the Fintech and Innovation Committee.

Prior to joining SGSS, Laurent has held various management positions in the banking sector in particular in BNP Paribas Securities Services and Credit Suisse Private Banking.

In this episode, we discussed, among others:
[00:02:03] Ecosystems as barometers for innovation;
[00:10:43] Blockchain: the innovator’s dilemma;
[00:14:59] Société Générale’s successes in institutional digital asset management so far;
[00:24:29] Tokenization, stablecoins and how should large organizations grasp with these innovations.

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice.

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METACO TALKS
Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity.

This show is hosted by METACO – the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem.