eXponential Finance

HomeDAO is the foundation of a network of technology entrepreneurs who live and build together. They have five hacker houses in Oxford and equip founders with all the resources necessary to make visions become reality.

Our conversation with Josh Lavorini, HomeDAO Co-Founder, and outdoteth, HomeDAO members traverses a wide range of topics:

- Introduction to HomeDAO

- Winning the ETHGlobal Hackathon (again)

- Is HomeDAO actually a DAO?

- Sample HomeDAO Projects

- HomeDAO as a mechanism to allocate scarce, highly skilled resources

- The role of ChatGPT & co-pilots at the top end of the software engineering universe

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]

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Ben Gleisner is the Founder and Global CEO at CoGo. Previously in a government role, Ben led the team that created Treasury's Living Standards Framework, and represented Treasury on New Zealand Government's International Climate Change negotiating team. Earlier this year, Ben was recognized as the Most Impactful Entrepreneur at the Pacific Basin Economic Council.

Cogo is a carbon footprint management product that helps individuals and businesses to measure, understand and reduce their impact on the climate. Cogo does this through partnerships with some of the world's largest banks to integrate leading carbon-tracking functionality into their banking apps.

Cogo uses best-in-class models to provide accurate ways to measure carbon emissions specific to local markets and cutting edge behavioural science techniques to nudge customers to make more sustainable choices.

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
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Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/tokyofintech/

Padmini Gupta is an award-winning banker and a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow, who is now re-imagining financial services for 250 million migrant workers worldwide, and the billion people who depend on them through Rise, and now Xare. 

At the heart of finance is a big secret, that all financial products were built for income earners, but only 1/3rd of the world works and they support the 2/3rds with financial products.

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]

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Dr. Sahin is a fully qualified German Lawyer with more than 15 years work experiences, financial regulatory and corporate legal affairs in Ireland, Germany and Japan with high knowledge in Japanese Law and its legal framework and business. He is currently seconded to KPMG Japan.

Dr. Sahin has earned his PhD in comparative law by analyzing Japanese insurance law, identifying influences and contrasting it with other jurisdictions. By working internationally, he has also developed a nuanced appreciation of the Japanese insurance market. Our discussion covers the origins of Japanese insurance law, and comparative analysis for starting up an insurance company, launching new products, and distributing said products in Japan vis-a-vis the EU.

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]

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Betterdata won the Silver Medal at the Tokyo Financial Awards 2022 (hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government) in the Financial Innovation category!

Betterdata is a Singapore-based startup that applies Generative AI to create synthetic data that is privacy-preserving. This can be used to simulate ‘what-if’ situations for analysis, remove biases from datasets and enable open access to data with 100% compliance. In light of ever-increasing data privacy-regulations, the technology allows for a fast and cost-efficient handling of sensitive data, allowing Betterdata's clients to focus on business outcomes.

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]

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Charles d’Haussy is the CEO of the dydx Foundation, an independent not-for-profit foundation created to promote dYdX, the most powerful decentralized cryptocurrency exchange protocol.Previously, Charles was Global Head of Business Development at ConsenSys, a leading blockchain engineering company and the Head of Fintech with the Hong Kong government.

In our conversation, naturally, we cover the state of the dydx development from Version 3 to Version 4, the implications of moving from a Layer 2 implementation with Starkware to its own blockchain based on the Cosmos SDK, and why Charles has chosen dydx when he made a career change last year. We quickly move on towards forms of centralized and decentralized finance, and a hybrid form that Charles sees emerging. He is also optimistic with regards to Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), which he sees as the right human organization form at scale for the algorithm and digital age. Our host is a little skeptical given current fragmentation trends in globalization, but in the end it is the optimists who innovate and change the world, right?

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]

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Jonas Thürig is the Head of Tenity, a FinTech Incubator and Accelerator, in Singapore. Tenity has the mission to unite tech startups with big business to shape the future in banking and insurance. Previously Jonas worked at the Embassy of Switzerland in China as the Deputy Head of the Science, Technology, Education and Innovation Section. He also founded his own startup, and worked for the Swiss Stock Exchange.

Our conversation will cover Singapore, the broader ASEAN context, and some comparisons to China. From the Tenity Singapore Incubation Batch 4 that finished at the end of 2022, Jonas highlights Rocket Capital and TEORRA. Doconomy is also mentioned as one of the Tenity investments when we talk about ESG. 

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]

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Nicholas Wilde is the Managing Director APAC at Thought Machine. In his role, Nick works with banks and fintech firms to help them implement a built-for-purpose modern core – Vault - at the heart of their business. Vault, built by former Google engineers, helps organizations to solve some of the hardest problems in banking, discard the shackles of their legacy systems and reimagine their business for tomorrow.

At the Singapore FinTech Festival 2022, Nick was recognized as one of the Top Ten FinTech Leaders in Singapore. In this conversation, he shares with us his perspective on banking across the region, how incumbents vs challengers are positioned, and what drives the adoption of modern, cloud-based banking stacks, whether from a technical or business perspective. One path to implementation for incumbents is the roll up of "orphan cores" into a platform like Vault, consolidating various product-specific legacy systems that become hard to maintain onto a single core. With Standard Chartered as one of his clients, Nick also shares examples how Mox in Hong Kong has launched incrementally.

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]

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Rob Leslie is one of Ireland’s most well-known technology entrepreneurs. He is the Founder and CEO at Sedicii, and a Co-Founder and President of Nillion. Rob started working on zero knowledge proofs in 2011, and founded Sedicii in 2013, with the aim of creating the world's first distributed, public utility to facilitate the storage and processing of all kinds of data without the need to expose or share it, thereby protecting the privacy and confidentiality of the data. A true pioneer.

Nillion allows nodes in a decentralized network to work in a unique, non-blockchain, way. While Nillion represents a revolutionary leap from a predecessor technology known as Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), unlike SMPC, network nodes do not have to communicate with one another. Unlike blockchain, nodes do not run immutable ledgers designed to store transaction data. Instead, new Nillion technology, called Nil Message Compute (NMC), is purpose built for decentralized secure storage and computation and thus opens up new use cases (on the Nillion native network), while also enhancing existing blockchains.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech, this is an edited recording of the second Tokyo FinTech LinkedIn Audio event. 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]

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Jan Denecke is the Co-Founder and CEO of twelve by twelve, a Berlin-based startup at the intersection of Web3 and music. We will discuss in depth about what impact Web3 technologies will have, and also about how regulated securities token can support project financing in the music industry.

twelve x twelve combines expertise from different markets into an innovative online platform that transforms music into digital collectibles and community-accessible digital assets to be marketed to music fans, collectors and crypto enthusiasts.

The name twelve x twelve derives from the vinyl. The twelve inch by twelve inch masterpiece that carries both delectable sounds and visuals on its cover, finds itself at the grass root of their cause: in a world of streamed content and blurred ownership, twelve x twelve are shaping the Web 3.0 revolution and hope to reignite appreciation for music and visual arts in a whole new way.

Produced in collaboration with Tokyo FinTech, this is an edited recording of the second Tokyo FinTech LinkedIn Audio event. 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]

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