Johnson Chen is founder and CEO of Singapore fintech CapBridge Financial and its blockchain-infrastructure subsidiary 1X. CapBridge is enabling corporate bonds, unicorn-company equities, real estate and private-equity funds to be accessed and traded by family offices. Johnson speaks with Jame DiBiasio about building CapBridge's investor base and improving markets through next-gen technology.

Timecodes:

0:00 - Johnson Chen, CapBridge Financial

1:30 - CapBridge's two business lines

2:29 - Providing access to unicorn company equity

3:20 - Fractionalizing private equity funds

4:08 - Asian demand for private equity

5:07 - Real estate

7:15 - Facilitating allocations to alternative investments

8:40 - 1X and DLT (distributed ledger technology)

11:25 - Piloting 1X for equities

12:20 - The problems that DLT/blockchain can solve

13:48 - Creating secondary-market liquidity

15:18 - The challenge of adoption

17:14 - Building CapBridge's investor base

19:22 - Backing by AMTD

21:37 - The ceremonial blade