Where Finance Finds Its Future

Oct 21 2024 163 ep. 56 mins 12
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The New Face of Finance, Where Finance Finds Its Future. Future of Finance has one overriding goal. It is to host meetings (at the moment virtual meetings) that bring together long established members of the financial services industry (banks, brokers, asset managers, insurers, financial market infrastructures) with entrepreneurs (challenger banks, technology companies and FinTechs) and market authorities (central banks, regulators and policymakers) to explore how the financial services industry can grow faster by being more open, more innovative and more trustworthy. If you would like to get in touch about featuring on a podcast, please email [email protected]
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A Future of Finance Fire Chat 'How the obstacles to scalable tokenisation are being cleared', with special guests Andreas Rufflin of BX Digital and Benedikt Schuppli of Obligate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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