Our guest is Kalin Nicolov , Head of Digital Currency at SICPA , the 100 year old global provider of security inks as well as secure identification, traceability and authentication solutions to many industries and companies, including central banks for banknotes. Kalin has 25+ years experience in managing transformation and innovation, with focus on complex systems like identity, currency and supply chains. In this episode we discuss what the future of money will look like, including the battle ...
May 28, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Our guest is Lory Kehoe , Director of Digital Assets & Blockchain at BNY Mellon . Lory is an outcome focused, data-driven, hands-on experienced executive with over seven years global blockchain and digital assets experience and has delivered production blockchain implementations for global financial institutions, as well as many pilots, prototypes and PoCs. He is a seasoned published thought leader on blockchain and fintech in The Financial Times, Forbes and across Irish media. He played an ...
May 21, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Our guest is Peter Hofmann , CEO of Custodigit , a company backed by SIX Digital Exchange, Swisscom and Sygnum offering an investor-grade custody solution targeting regulated financial institutions. Previously, Peter worked in different senior positions in the financial services industry for companies like Cap Gemini, KPMG, IBM, PostFinance and several startups before. Peter has a long-lasting experience that bridges financial services, technology and innovation. METACO TALKS - Live conversation...
May 07, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our guest is Benjamin Duve, Head of Digital Assets and Custody at Commerzbank. He runs the highly successful Custody and DMA product, with its client service focused model and great reception in the market. Being involved in many securities related proof-of-concepts and live trades dating back to 2017 he is a thought leader and sought after panelist in the field. He represents the bank in various industry working groups.
May 04, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Our guest is Katharina Gehra, CEO & Co-Founder of Immutable Insight. Katharina is one of the leading personalities on the German and European blockchain scene. Previously, she has been CEO at Interritus Limited, a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group and worked at Commerzbank. She’s been named as Top 40 under 40 for three times in a row. Her podcast Block52 is one of the most prestigious blockchain podcasts and has more than 85,000 listeners. Among other topics, we discussed: - What...
Apr 23, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our guest is Alexander Lipton , Co-founder and Chief Information Officer at Sila (an innovative fintech company working on making money programmable), Visiting Professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Connection Science Fellow at MIT. In addition, Alexander is an Advisory Board Member at numerous Fintech companies worldwide. In 2021, Alex was awarded the Buy-side Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. He published ten books and more than a hundred scientific pape...
Apr 19, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Our guest is Alexander Bechtel – Head of DLT and Digital Asset Strategy at Deutsche Bank (Corporate Bank). Alex visited Stanford University as a student researcher and worked as an external consultant at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Since June 2019, he is the host of the German-speaking podcast “Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll“. For this episode, among others, we discussed: tokenization as a main driver for banks to adopt crypto; cryptocurrencies in the context of monetary policies; u...
Mar 19, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Our guest is Ben Robinson – co-founder of aperture.co, a strategy consultancy helping banks and fintech companies launch digital era business models. After working for Exane BNP Paribas as part of an award-winning tech research team, Ben joined Temenos, a market-leader in banking software. At Temenos, Ben was Chief Strategy Officer, and ran the Temenos MarketPlace, its platform for connecting banks and fintech scale-ups. Among other topics, we discussed: why traditional industry analysis and sof...
Mar 05, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our guest is Mike McGlone – Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, specializing in the broad investible commodity markets. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a head of US research at ETF Securities. Prior to ETF Securities, Mike headed the commodity business at S&P Indices. His previous roles included head of futures research at ABN Amro and VP research, analyst, trader, sales at Aubrey G. Lanston / IBJ Futures. Among other topics, we will discuss: why bitcoin is an investibl...
Feb 19, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Our guest for this METACO TALKS episode is Francisco Fernandez , founder of Avaloq and member of its Board of Directors. Francisco is a visionary entrepreneur who’s dedicated his career to the finance sector IT. He sees his goal as disrupting familiar business models, reshaping the relationships between banks and their clients and making financial institutions more efficient, secure and transparent. - Achieving entrepreneurial success - Avaloq's role in enabling FIs to capitalize on the crypto o...
Feb 05, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our guest is Thomas Nägele . He advises international finance, technology and industrial enterprises operating in the fields of Blockchain/DLT, telecommunications and internet, as well as public institutions. As a Liechtenstein Attorney and being also a software developer, he focusses on Internet/IT law, as well as civil and corporate law. He was a member of the Blockchain Act workgroup (Trusted Technology Law). Among other topics, we discussed: Legal Framework for Cryptocurrencies Digitalizatio...
Jan 22, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Our guest is Michel Rauchs , Research Affiliate at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. Michel is a researcher and consultant focused on digital assets, distributed consensus systems (a.k.a. blockchain or DLT), and monetary/financial systems. His work and occasional commentary on blockchain-related topics have been featured media outlets such as the BBC, The Times, CNN, The Independent, DER SPIEGEL, NPR, Reuters, and others. Among other topics, in this episode we discuss: Economic effects o...
Jan 08, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our guest, Sal Ternullo co-leads KPMG's Crypto and Digital Asset service offering across strategy, product and service innovation, technology design and development, risk, security & compliance. Sal works with regulated financial institutions across technologies including cloud, crypto and blockchain. In this episode we discuss, among others, about: Crypto and Digital assets strategy in 2021 Trends in innovation efforts made by Tier 1 financial institutions, nationally chartered banks, and c...
Dec 11, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our first episode of METACO TALKS featured one of the top German economists, Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner - Head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and also a co-founder of the German Blockchain Association, the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), and the Multichain Asset Managers Association. The event was hosted by Seamus Donoghue, VP of Business Development at METACO - the foundation for digital assets Subscrib...
Nov 27, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 1
