Michele Curtoni heads the strategy and new business development at SDX, SIX’s regulated digital asset exchange platform, which is part of the SIX Financial Group, the financial market infrastructure of Switzerland. In this podcast we discuss a

Ep. 177 – Why decentralised finance matters and the policy implications? – OECD Report

Mar 27th, 2022 46m 1s

Iota Nassr is a policy analyst at the OECD within the financial markets division. She currently manages the FinTech experts group of the OECD Committee on Financial Markets, leading the analysis around anything that has to do with digitalizatio

Ep. 176 – Etherisc’s flight delay blockchain insurance in production

Feb 6th, 2022 35m 39s

In 2016, Etherisc was one of the first companies to launch a real world use case for a flight delay insurance policy on a public blockchain. Regulatory and lack of stable coin hindered that early solution. In 2017, they relaunched along with an

Ep. 175 – Coadjute – blockchain platform launch & mortgage stablecoins

Jan 23rd, 2022 41m 23s

In this podcast we had the pleasure of having Dan Salmons, CEO of Coadjute and John Reynolds, COO and founder of Coadjute return to Insureblocks to share with us the launch of their real estate blockchain platform and their thoughts on a mortga

Ep. 174 – R3 Product Vision: Market Trends & Needs and R3’s Long-Term Product Investment

Jan 9th, 2022 44m 53s

Todd McDonald is the co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at R3. In this podcast we discuss R3’s Product Vision and their views on market trends, market needs and R3’s long term product investment.What is blockchain?Blockchain is a way for

Ep. 173 – Obscuro: a secret spell over DeFi

Dec 12th, 2021 41m 35s

Over the last 12 months Decentralised Finance also known as DeFi has really exploded with reported total value locked reaching $250bn. R3 who operates in the permissioned blockchain space is spinning out Obscuro into the permissionless space o

Ep. 172 – Confidential computing tackling human trafficking – insights from Hope for Justice

Dec 5th, 2021 47m 44s

Tim Nelson is the CEO of Hope for Justice and is part of the founding board of the charity which exists to try and end all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery across the globe. They work alongside major multinational businesses throug

Ep. 171 – Exploring CBDCs – insights from the Bank for International Settlements

Nov 21st, 2021 50m 20s

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are increasingly being talked about in the press with announcements of initiatives from different central banks working on CBDCs coming out left right and centre. Few however are as forward thinking and e

Ep. 170 – Leveraging Mastercard’s DNA onto blockchain – Mastercard Provenance Solution

Sep 19th, 2021 51m 47s

Leandro Nunes, Vice President, Product Development and Innovation at Mastercard, joins us to share how he leveraged Mastercard’s DNA in scalability, payment automation and governance. We also discuss the important of a data governance model and

Ep. 169 – The future of governance and collaboration – insights from R3

Aug 29th, 2021 43m 41s

Alisa DiCaprio, is the Head of Trade and Supply Chain at R3 and also facilitates a lot of R3’s research. Whilst the concept of governance is familiar to many in the business community it has proven to be quite a challenge to blockchain business

Ep. 168 – IDunion a European decentralised identity management platform

Aug 15th, 2021 47m 32s

IDunion is a new European decentralised identity management platform that is promising to bring user centric digital identity with privacy at its core. In this podcast we had Adrian Doerk – Product manager at Lissi and communication & Public re

Ep. 167 – Empowering individual’s consent using NFTs and blockchain – insights from Acoer

Jul 25th, 2021 56m 8s

Jim Nasr, is the CEO of Acoer, a software development company whose vision, and work is all about building useful, usable, real time technologies that are fundamentally targeted at the healthcare industry. Jim was the former chief software arch

Ep. 166 – PharmaLedger – the Pharmaceutical Blockchain Consortium

Jul 12th, 2021 40m 6s

In January 2020, 12 global pharmaceutical companies and 17 public and private entities; including technical, legal, regulatory, academia, research organisations and patient representative organisations, got together to form PharmaLedger, the ph

Ep. 165 – Cross blockchain ecosystem collaboration – insights from Contour & MineHub

Jun 27th, 2021 45m 12s

Arnoud Star Busmann, CEO of MineHub and Carl Wegner, CEO of Contour join us in this exciting podcast to discuss their cross blockchain ecosystem collaboration. Arnoud and Carl share their insights on how to identify opportunities for cross ecos

Ep. 164 – Tokenisation of Assets and Potential Implications for Financial Markets – OECD Report

Jun 13th, 2021 48m 49s

Asset tokenisation has become one of the most prominent use-cases of distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) in financial markets, for assets including securities, commodities and other non-financial assets. For this podcast we had Iota Nassr, E

Ep. 163 – Enabling an open mobility ecosystem – Insights from bloXmove

Jun 6th, 2021 45m 54s

Harry Behrens – bloXmove co-founder. Harry was until recently the Head of the Daimler Mobility Blockchain Factory where they built a mobility blockchain platform. Harry describes himself as a software guy. Now, along with his co-founder Sophia

Ep. 162 – Komgo – rethinking blockchain in trade finance

May 30th, 2021 35m 18s

Souleima Baddi is the CEO of Komgo, an innovative platform that powers trade networks. In this podcast we discussed the challenges of bringing blockchain to the trade finance industry. Souleima shared her insights on how to manage the need to b

Ep. 161 – ClaimShare a use case in confidential computing

May 23rd, 2021 44m 34s

Chaim Finizola is the ClaimShare Director and the head of business development for emerging markets over at IntellectEU. In this podcast we discuss ClaimShare’s confidential computing solution built on top of R3’s Conclave and Corda Enterprise

Ep. 160 – NFTs an opportunity for the financial industry?

May 16th, 2021 1h 1m

Charles Kerrigan – Partner & Global Head of Fintech at CMS. Charles spends his time looking at what do new technologies mean for the industries that their clients work in from financial institutions to fintechs, crypto firms, and blockchain pro

Ep. 159 – AAIS’ OpenIDL joins the Linux Foundation

May 2nd, 2021 44m 56s

Joan Zerkovich – Senior Vice President, Operations at AAIS (American Association of Insurance Services) and Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger at the Linux Foundation join us to announce that the AAIS' OpenIDL is joining the Li

Ep. 158 – Deep Dive on Plastic Bank’s Blockchain

Apr 25th, 2021 35m 15s

Shaun Frankson is the CTO and co-founder of the Plastic Bank. In this podcast we discuss Plastic Bank’s model and perform a deep dive on Plastic Bank’s blockchain and token platform. This is a great example of how blockchain can be used for soc

Ep. 157 – SLAFKA – Safeguarding Nuclear Material with Blockchain

Apr 18th, 2021 29m 45s

Cindy Vestergaard is the Stimson Centre Director, Nuclear Safeguards Program & Director, Blockchain in Practice program. In this podcast we discuss the interesting work she does in safeguarding nuclear material with blockchain technology.Wh

Ep. 156 – Rebalance Earth – Blockchain & Climate Change

Apr 11th, 2021 36m 38s

Walid Al Saqqaf, Founder of Insureblocks and CEO & Co-Founder of Rebalance Earth joins us in this podcast to discuss the role blockchain has in fighting climate change but also the impact it can have in regenerating biodiversity. In a world tha

Ep. 155 – Digital Euro – Insights from ABI

Apr 4th, 2021 40m 43s

Silvia Attanasio, is the Head of Innovation at ABI (Italian Banking Association). Previously to that role she worked for 17 years at ABI Labs, the centre of research and innovation at ABI. Previously Silvia introduced us to Spunta, the private

Ep. 154 – Trust your supplier by ChainYard

Mar 28th, 2021 40m 58s

Gary Storr, General Manager of Trust Your Supplier by ChainYard, explained to us some of the challenges that the supplier information management industry is facing with disparate sources of information and the role blockchain can help to mitiga