In this episode, Jay speaks with Navin Gupta, Managing Director for South East Asia and MENA at Ripple, a blockchain technology that enables global financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers to move, manage and tokenize value. Navin discusses the unnecessary friction in bank transactions today, how the lack of blockchain education is impeding mainstream adoption, and how Ripple is educating users, regulators and financial institutions. He also shares how Ripple is using the XRP ledger as a bridge for transactions and increasing global access to blockchain.

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About Guest

Navin Gupta is the Managing Director, for South Asia and MENA at Ripple. Navin has over two decades of extensive experience in global transaction banking, payments and cash management, and strategy planning. He has previously worked as Vice President for Citigroup, Head of Growth Strategy for HSBC Asia, Amazon, and Nokia. He is a former board member of the National Payments Corporation of India and currently sits on the Board of Maitrayana Charity Foundation, New Delhi, India. He was also a chief architect of HSBC’s global initiative on Working Capital and Liquidity Management and in 2008 was recognized as one of "The 50 Most Promising Young Leaders" in Asia-Pac by The Asian Banker. 

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• How the lack of education is impeding mainstream adoption

Timestamps

0:35 Jay’s intro

2:06 Navin’s background

7:10 Understanding bank transactions

13:33 Use case: payroll

16:52 Human behavior

18:12 Educating financial institutions

23:10 Eliminating friction in payment systems

26:40 Who is Ripple for

31:54 Regulation and adoption

38:21 Roadmap to educating regulators

44:05 Advice for entering Web3

47:20 Contact Navin and Ripple

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