Ahmed Al-Balaghi, CEO and Co-Founder of Biconomy, a multi-chain relayer network that simplifies the Web3 experience. As a developer platform, Biconomy empowers blockchain developers to enable a simplified transaction and onboarding experience for their Web3 project and is striving to bring simplicity to DeFi.
Waseem Mamlouk is a serial entrepreneur with a background in IT, law, and finance. He is the Vice President of Capital Markets for Nimbus DeFi. Nimbus is a DAO-governed dApp ecosystem providing a range of income-generating streams based on IPOs, lending, crypto and more,
Don Guo is the CEO of Broctagon Fintech Group, which specializes in prime liquidity provision, brokerage technology solutions and enterprise blockchain development.
In this Q&A, Guo talks about the evolution of China’s public posturing on cryptocurrencies. He examines China’s own potential cryptocurrency and whether he envisions this as a rival or replacement to the US dollar.
Lewis Fellas is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Bletchley Asset Management and a member of Caspian’s board of strategic advisors.
In his advisory role, Fellas works closely with Caspian CEO and Co-Founder Robert Dykes and the board on finding ways to give institutional firms greater access to the digital asset class.
Thomas Kim is CEO of trueDigital, a global provider of institutional-grade financial infrastructure and products.
Headquartered in New York, trueDigital is building the next generation digital asset ecosystem that reduces risk and provides capital optimization. This full-service ecosystem is comprised of a regulated digital asset marketplace,
YT Kim is the Founder of Yosemite X, a technology company which developed a public blockchain platform that is based on fiat currency.
Yosemite X recently launched its blockchain credit card that allows merchants to bypass middlemen processing fees.
In an encouraging report for blockchain technology, financial giant HSBC reports that it has slashed the costs of settling foreign exchange trades on its proprietary blockchain system.
Speaking to Reuters, HSBC said its forex costs on between 3,500 and 5,000 trades per day on its FX Everywhere system have dropped significantly.
Phil Zamani is the CEO of the board at Blocko, the Samsung-backed operating system for enterprises.
Zamani is an open-source veteran that has led leading open-source enterprise-IT firms like Red Hat for over twenty years. He has directed teams at Deutsche Telekom,
Sebastian Serrano is the founder of Ripio, a cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer credit network. In this interview, he talks about the challenges of growing a business in Latin America, the importance of financial education, and about the first credits and mortgages in cryptocurrencies.
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Perhaps no industry is as plagued with counterfeit merchandise as the fashion industry. Walk down the street in any major city and knock-offs of Kate Spade bags and haute couture are arrayed, offering big discounts for the undiscerning. It costs the fashion and accessories industries many millions of dollars each year while denting consumer confidence.
