Our guest is Kalin Nicolov, Head of Digital Currency at SICPA, the 100 year old global provider of security inks as well as secure identification, traceability and authentication solutions to many industries and companies, including central banks for banknotes. Kalin has 25+ years experience in managing transformation and innovation, with focus on complex systems like identity, currency and supply chains.

METACO TALKS - Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest is Lory Kehoe, Director of Digital Assets & Blockchain at BNY Mellon. Lory is an outcome focused, data-driven, hands-on experienced executive with over seven years global blockchain and digital assets experience and has delivered production blockchain implementations for global financial institutions, as well as many pilots, prototypes and PoCs.

He is a seasoned published thought leader on blockchain and fintech in The Financial Times, Forbes and across Irish media. He played an active role in establishing The European Commission’s global blockchain group, INATBA.

METACO TALKS - Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest is Peter Hofmann, CEO of Custodigit, a company backed by SIX Digital Exchange, Swisscom and Sygnum offering an investor-grade custody solution targeting regulated financial institutions. Previously, Peter worked in different senior positions in the financial services industry for companies like Cap Gemini, KPMG, IBM, PostFinance and several startups before. Peter has a long-lasting experience that bridges financial services, technology and innovation.

METACO TALKS - Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest is Benjamin Duve, Head of Digital Assets and Custody at Commerzbank. He runs the highly successful Custody and DMA product, with its client service focused model and great reception in the market. Being involved in many securities related proof-of-concepts and live trades dating back to 2017 he is a thought leader and sought after panelist in the field. He represents the bank in various industry working groups.

Our guest is Katharina Gehra, CEO & Co-Founder of Immutable Insight. Katharina is one of the leading personalities on the German and European blockchain scene. Previously, she has been CEO at Interritus Limited, a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group and worked at Commerzbank. She’s been named as Top 40 under 40 for three times in a row. Her podcast Block52 is one of the most prestigious blockchain podcasts and has more than 85,000 listeners.  

Among other topics, we discussed:   

- What is the token economy?   

- What are the hurdles to making it a reality? (legal, regulatory, skills)   

- Where is Europe vs the Rest of the World?   

- Where are we on the technology cycle vs the hype cycle?  

METACO TALKS - Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest is Alexander Lipton, Co-founder and Chief Information Officer at Sila (an innovative fintech company working on making money programmable), Visiting Professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Connection Science Fellow at MIT. In addition, Alexander is an Advisory Board Member at numerous Fintech companies worldwide. In 2021, Alex was awarded the Buy-side Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. He published ten books and more than a hundred scientific papers to date.  For this episode, among others, we discussed: Coinbase IPO; deep-Dive into bitcoin; cryptocurrencies management; DeFi vs. CeFi; central bank issued digital currencies and stable coins; NFTs; DAOs; the future of DLTs and cryptocurrencies and more.

METACO TALKS - Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest is Alexander Bechtel – Head of DLT and Digital Asset Strategy at Deutsche Bank (Corporate Bank). Alex visited Stanford University as a student researcher and worked as an external consultant at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. Since June 2019, he is the host of the German-speaking podcast “Bitcoin, Fiat & Rock’n’Roll“. For this episode, among others, we discussed: tokenization as a main driver for banks to adopt crypto; cryptocurrencies in the context of monetary policies; using adaptors between DLT and payments systems; CBDC’s and digital euro use cases. | 

METACO TALKS Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity. This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem. |

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Our guest for this METACO TALKS episode is Francisco Fernandez, founder of Avaloq and member of its Board of Directors. Francisco is a visionary entrepreneur who’s dedicated his career to the finance sector IT. He sees his goal as disrupting familiar business models, reshaping the relationships between banks and their clients and making financial institutions more efficient, secure and transparent.  - Achieving entrepreneurial success - Avaloq's role in enabling FIs to capitalize on the crypto opportunity - The interplay of traditional finance and DeFi - Where digital assets go from here  

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METACO TALKS 

Live conversations with the people operating at the frontier of crypto innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other crypto and digital asset market participants. Our objective is to help the broader ecosystem navigate this complex environment and unlock the market opportunity.  

This show is hosted by METACO - the leading provider of security-critical infrastructure enabling financial institutions to enter the digital asset ecosystem.