Cion Digital's new Advisor Lending Platform connects wealth professionals and firms with lenders in a more efficient process than was previously available. They also now offer their product suite to a more significant portion of the financial services and retail sectors.
Intain team ran an audit of their platform, a blockchain structured finance ledger, and found $3.75 billion in assets live on the database.
From an anti-money laundering perspective, organizations had significant increases in new customers and transactions over a short period.
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·In this conversation, we are so lucky to tap into the brilliant mind of none other than Sheila Warren who sits on the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum and is a key member in the executive leadership of the Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), in which she oversees strategy across the entire C4IR Network, consisting of centers in 13 countries. Sheila also holds board member and advisory positions at multiple institutions and organizations including The MIT Press (Cryptoeconomic Systems), The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), NGO network TechSoup and she is a Member of The Bretton Woods Committee.
More specifically, we discuss her professional journey from small claims court to NGO Aid to refugees to corporate law to The WEF, touching on rational choice theory, corporate personhood and its correlation to the growth around ESG, new substrates, DAOs and protocols, artificial intelligence, the purpose of The World Economic Forum and its impact on governments and society alike, and just so much more!
In this conversation, we chat with Tim Frost, CEO and Co-Founder of Yield App, a fintech app making DeFi accessible to everyone. Prior to founding Yield, Tim helped build 2 previous digital banks, Wirex and EQIBank. Tim has also helped accelerate early-stage blockchain startups QTUM, NEO, Paxful, Polymath, and many others.
More specifically, we touch on all things crypto banking and debit cards, crypto onramps, juristictions and regulation, defi banking, yield generation mechanisms, and so much more!
Wall Street backed EDX Markets launched two weeks ago making a critical shift in TradFi's approach to crypto. Will this change DeFi?
After about 4 p.m. EST, the algorithmic stable coin TerraUSD collapsed 30% in four hours, while its sister coin dropped 97% in a day.
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·Mike Cagney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Figure, a full stack financial services blockchain company with consumer offerings in market or on the way in lending, banking and more. In late-2019, Figure raised $103 million at a $1.2 billion valuation and continues to grow.
Prior to starting Figure, Mike co-founded and ran SoFi, one of the most successful consumer fintech companies ever.
In this conversation, we discuss Figure’s routes to asset origination and capital markets disruption, Figure’s previously unannounced consumer banking and payments offering, lessons learned building and scaling multiple billion dollar companies and more.
The correlation between stocks and crypto has increased over time as more institutional investors have invested in crypto.
Crypto investment maintains the potential for wealth creation, despite the recent downturn, what will it take to push the market further?