Pioneering Conversations

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with LMAX Group’s Jenna Wright

As demand for gold exposure surges, brokers and professional traders are increasingly looking for efficient, always-on access to traditional assets, whether through spot, CFDs...

Pioneering Conversations: AI and DLT in digital assets

This week’s Pioneering Conversation provides insights into one of the panels at the Financial Times Digital Assets Summit, where the panellists shared their thoughts on integrating artificial intelligence (AI)...

Pioneering Conversations: Institutional adoption of crypto

Today, our Pioneering Conversation brings you the key takeaways from one of the panel sessions at this week’s Financial Times Digital Assets Summit, focused on how cryptocurrencies can fit...

Gallagher weighs capacity, compliance, and cold storage

The insurance industry is navigating both a soft market and a period of profound structural transformation.The rapid pace of fintech development is forcing a...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with the Investment Association’s John Allan

Following the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) guidance to support innovation in fund tokenisation, we sat down with John Allan, innovation and operating unit and director, Engine at the...

Pioneering Conversations: Interoperability vital for the multi-moneyverse

For this week’s Pioneering Conversation, you’ll read the key takeaways from an insightful panel on building a ‘multi-moneyverse’ at the Innovate Finance Global Summit, the flagship event of UK FinTech Week.The...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with Hashgraph CEO Eric Piscini

Amid a flurry of announcements from Hashgraph, the technology and innovation arm behind the Hedera network, we sat down with CEO Eric Piscini at...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with CoinShares’ JM Mognetti

CoinShares is now listed on the Nasdaq in the US, following a completed business combination between CoinShares International Limited, Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp. and the newly formed holding...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with Lingfeng’s Brian McNulty

We sat down with Brian McNulty, General Partner at Lingfeng Capital (DVF / DTTF Funds) about the firm’s Digital Venture Fund (DVF), the first...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with HestiaX’s Oleksandr Zeziulinskyi

Following this week’s Insurtech Insights Europe conference in London, we sat down with Oleksandr Zeziulinskyi, founder of HestiaX, to find out more about how...

Pioneering Conversations: Taking tokenised finance from pilots to platforms

For this week’s Pioneering Conversation we’re taking you through the thoughtful discussion on the progression of tokenisation from pilots to production at yesterday’s Investment Association EmTech Global conference. The panel featured insights from Catriona...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with FundBank’s Colm O’Driscoll

FundBank this week announced its acquisition of Trrue.io, a Layer-1 blockchain focused on sustainable investing. The acquisition marks one of the first steps the company has taken...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with Bloomberg’s Emilie Gallagher

As capital markets continue to embrace tokenisation, the demand for trusted, standardised reference data continues to rise. To meet this rising demand, Bloomberg has collaborated...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with MembersCap’s Ben Fox

Ben Fox, cofounder and CIO of Members Capital Management, has built a career at the intersection of science and capital markets. Now he’s adding a new pillar: digital infrastructure.Read...

Pioneering Conversations: Interview with LSEG’s Bud Novin

This week has been a busy one for the London Stock Exchange Group. The group announced plans to build an on-chain settlement capability, the LSEG Digital Securities Depository (DSD) and a partnership with...