DigFin VOX

Richard Turrin is a Shanghai-based consultant and author. He speaks with Jame DiBiasio about his latest book, "Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution", why digital currencies matter, and the relevance of China's fintech experience for the rest of the world.

TImecodes:

0:00 - Richard Turrin, "Cashless"

01:08 - What makes central-bank digital currencies (CBDCs) useful

4:11 - CBDCs versus our existing payments infrastructure

5:41 - Use cases, benefits of digital currencies

9:47 - Financial services in a world of digital currencies

12:00 - Governments and programmable money

15:07 - Cryptocurrency (eg Bitcoin) versus CBDCs

16:39 - Role of commercial banks

19:00 - Disrupting credit card companies and payments fintech companies

22:16 - The role of CBDCs in tokenizing assets

25:00 - Cybersecurity of digital cash

Ian Gillard is senior executive vice president at Bangkok Bank as well as a member of the board at blockchain vendor R3. He speaks with Jame DiBiasio about Bangkok Bank's digitization strategy as Thailand goes cashless.

Timecodes:

0:00 - Ian Gillard, Bangkok Bank

1:10 - About Bangkok Bank

2:39 - Bangkok Bank's first digital products

3:09 - The bank goes mobile

3:18 - Corporate versus consumer banking digitization

4:30 - How well do you really know your consumers?

7:13 - Gaining customer insight, the learning process

8:06 - Where tech can take banking

9:09 - Fintechs as competitors and as partners

10:56 - Prospects for virtual banks in Thailand

13:30 - Thailand is going cashless, and Bank of Thailand's work

17:41 - Retail CBDCs / digital currency, and tokenization

19:45 - Developing blockchain-based trade finance

Nicki Ramsay, founder of Singapore payments fintech CardUp, talks about making the leap into lending, drivers behind credit-card fintech, and challenges to the business.

Regulator MAS is driving the financial-services industry to embrace sustainability – and that means a huge need for data, policy, and digital transformation, says Sopnendu Mohanty, MAS's chief fintech officer.

Sandy Peng, partner at Fission Capital, speaks with Jame about her investment strategy for blockchain tokens and companies.

Can Crypto.com go from 10m users to 100m users? That's the goal of CEO Kris Marszalek. He speaks with Jame at DigFinVOX about what it takes. Hint: regulation!

Payments fintech Wise must navigate a complicated network of regulators, competitors, and partners to grow cross-border payments in Asia Pacific, says Venkatesh Saha.

Charles D'Haussy discusses his new book, "Block Kong", profiling 21 of Hong Kong's leading blockchain entrepreneurs.

Why do banks still find digital transformation so hard – and can the process be improved? Navin Suri, co-founder of Percipient, a Singapore-based AI fintech, discusses transformation post-COVID, the new problems banks are facing with data, and what can help the process of bank/fintech collaboration.

Michael Shaulov is founder of New York-based Fireblocks, a startup building infrastructure for crypto. Michael brings two decades of cyber-security and fintech experience to the world of digital assets. He talks about how security is evolving in crypto, his work on the Diem stablecoin, how to make digital assets greener, and how he will use the proceeds from Fireblocks's latest $133m Series C funding round.