eXponential Finance

Anjali Young is the Co-Founder of Collab.Land, an automated member management system for tokenized communities. Over 50,000 projects use Collab.Land as their primary tool for community management.

Anjali has a 30+ year history with online communities as a creator, member, and in leadership. She has also worked as a lawyer, adjunct professor, and early tech startup employee.

In addition to her interest in community and web3 onboarding, she has a passion for NFTs and the artists who create them.

Anjali is one of only a handful of web3 leaders to have received recognition from Salesforce, and is listed as one of its Web3 Advisory Board Members.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
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Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
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Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Anton Golub is a crypto serial entrepreneur and ecosystem builder. Anton founded & served as CEO of flovtec, a Swiss market-maker providing liquidity solutions to digital asset exchanges, token issuers & protocols and offering investment products for professional & institutional investors. Anton is also a co-founder of Trust Square AG, a pre-eminent blockchain technology hub located in Zurich's financial district. Previoulsy, Anton co-founded Lykke Corp, a blockchain-powered exchange to trade all assets with zero fees, where he served as a Chief Science Officer.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Dean McClelland is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Tontine Trust, a lifetime income solution. We had the pleasure of hosting Dean before, at our fifteenth Tokyo FinTech Meetup in 2018. This podcast is an edited version of our 182nd meetup. Five years have passed, and the focus has moved from Asia to Europe and now the US, where the launch is expected shortly.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Vishal Dalal is the International CEO at Pismo, a next generation banking and cards technology provider, founded in 2016 in Brazil. Previously a Partner at McKinsey, Vishal has worked in India, Singapore, Australia, and the UK. He discusses with us the origins and culture of Pismo, its positioning in the global next gen core banking market, the competitive advantage of product-focused software engineers in Brazil, and also shares some insights into the markets carrying the most importance for Pismo in the future, in Asia and beyond.

Pismo is a truly cloud-native API platform that helps clients to respond to market changes at lightning speed. Last week, Visa announced the acquisition of Pismo at a unicorn valuation, with the deal expected to close before the end of the year.

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Swaap v2 is a non-custodial RfQ market-making infrastructure. It provides optimal liquidity services with built-in defensive modules – or "safeguards” – allowing for on-chain max drawdown circuit breaker, last look, and other dynamic forms of funds protection. LPs passively benefit from state-of-the-art market-making strategies originating from the stochastic control theory. Liquidity pools automatically compound fees, and are represented as ERC-20 tokens for simpler auditability and composability. The first strategy available will focus on optimizing LPs returns against “HODLing”.

Cyrille Pastour is a Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Swaap Labs, the creators of the Swaap Protocol, and Louis Bertucci is a Research Advisor from the Institut Louis Bachelier. Louis is also the editor of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to DeFi".

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Masa Kikuchi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Secured Finance. Masa is a former head of interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives structuring turned computer scientist, an evangelist of web3 technologies, and a task force member of the trusted web at the cabinet secretariat of Japan.

Secured Finance is on a mission to bring transparency, security, and robustness to the world of finance. With their decentralized finance protocol, they are reimagining traditional financial systems and making institutional-grade products accessible to everyone.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Lisa Nestor is the Chief Strategy Officer at Air TM. Lisa has spent her professional career researching, and then building solutions that economically empower individuals by improving their ability to access and participate in financial markets. At Airtm, Lisa is leveraging her background in digital assets, payments and

Airtm is an e-wallet connected to over 300 bank and e-money systems via a peer-to-peer network and direct bank connections. Users hold their money as dollars or cryptocurrency, and can send and receive funds domestically and internationally. Airtm also offers enterprises facilities to make bulk payments to digital workers in the global economy, paying "taskers" instantly and in a fully compliant way.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also publish a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Benjamin Quinlan is the CEO and Managing Partner of Quinlan & Associates. He is the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and currently chairs the Innovation & Technology Committee at the Australian Chamber of Commerce. In this conversation, we are taking a deep dive into a recently published Quinlan & Associates research report on the APAC Digital Banking Landscape, which illustrates the ongoing evolution of the digital banking sector in APAC, the opportunities and challenges facing digital banks in the region, and how they should be thinking about their path towards profitability.

You can download the report here: https://www.quinlanandassociates.com/apac-digital-bank-landscape/

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also produce a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Sam Ahmed is the Co-Founder and CEO of Smartpay, the first all-in-one payment experience and interest free buy now pay later solution built to solve Japanese

Sam has led blue chip brands across Starbucks (Retail) and Facebook, MasterCard (Technology) in Asia Pacific and Standard Chartered Bank globally driving accelerated revenue growth through Digital, CRM, marketing, communication, product & commercial sales innovation.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also produce a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Sherry Jiang is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bluejay Finance. Previously, Sherry led growth and incentives marketing for Google Pay in India, where the product grew from 13m to more than 120m monthly active users. She started up Bluejay in 2021 to push the envelope even more when it comes to financial inclusion, outside of existing banking rails.

Bluejay helps investors get access to diversified and consistent returns through a decentralised fixed income protocol. It is a stablecoin based platform that allows people to invest in fixed income assets that are backed by real world financing opportunities like private credit.

If you would like to join Bluejay's private credit investor group to get the latest updates on the world of private credit investing and get connected with other like-minded investors, you can apply through the following TypeForm: https://lnkd.in/g7QfAejN

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech. If you have an interesting story to share with our audience, and would like to appear on the podcast, please contact us via [email protected]

We also produce a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, the "Japan FinTech Observer", which we invite you to subscribe to: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7048203270833524736/

You can also find us on....
Home Page: https://tokyofintech.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tokyofintech/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TokyoFinTech
Medium: https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/tokyofintech
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/