Amber Group is a crypto business that moved to Singapore and is now backed by Temasek, among other investors, with a soaring valuation. Annabelle Huang, managing partner, discusses the firm's valuation and potential IPO plans, managing the changing regulatory landscape, and the extension of a prop-trading start to a new embrace of retail business.

Timecodes:

0:00 - Annabelle Huang, Amber Group

1:54 - Amber expands out of pure institutional business

4:20 - Institutional needs in crypto versus TradFi

7:54 - Convergence between crypto and traditional finance

9:07 - How Amber views regulatory uncertainty

10:43 - Amber switches HQ from Hong Kong to Singapore

12:59 - Crypto's prospects if CBDCs emerge

14:52 - Adapting institutional products for retail wealth mgmt

16:56 - Is gamification healthy?

18:31 - Why NFT valuations are falling

21:55 - Web3, institutional versus retail demand

22:41 - Are there social benefits to financializing games?

23:30 - Stablecoin and Tether risks

25:32 - Amber Group's IPO plans

27:00 - Most exciting development for 2022