TechnologyTechnology is racing ahead of legal structures that were never designed to address challenges of the sort presented by cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, decentralized finance, and myriad other innovations. The resulting tension between innovation and regulation creates difficult challenges for legislators, regulators, and innovators alike. While regulatory bodies worldwide are diving into the [...]

Digitization presents opportunities for new ways of doing business, organizing data, training AI, providing oversight and regulation, and providing real-time metrics and accountability. The ability to track a range of previously difficult to measure externalities (carbon, labor, and provenance of physical and digital goods, to name a few) has never been closer. One technology [...]

Data Management:Organizations deal with a lot of data, and it comes in many forms. There is structured data like log files, spreadsheets, tables, and sql databases. This data was once the bulk of information that lived in a given company, and is why SQL, Excel, and others have historically been a necessity to manage and [...]

Why The Metaverse Matters#1 An Ever Increasing Percentage Of Our Time Will Be Spent In The Metaverse:Humanity will spend a little more time in the metaverse. That obviously doesn’t include the 4.5 hours we spend in front of computer screens per day, and the 3 hours and 12 minutes a day we spend on gaming [...]

Diversify with EaseLike traditional mutual funds, ETFs contain a basket of assets, including potentially stocks, bonds and currencies, allowing investors to target specific themes or strategies, while lessening single-stock risk.TransparencyMost ETFs publish their holdings daily. In addition to knowing what you own, ETFs are generally more efficient and, on average, offered [...]

FinTech’s scope continues to increase, helping consumers and financial institutions alike. As it grows, we believe investors should broaden their view of FinTech. More than just digital payments, the next generation of disruptive FinTech includes services like BNPL, digital wallets, and powerful cloud solutions that can improve the banking experiences. These are a few of [...]

DeFi challenges this centralized financial system by disempowering middlemen and gatekeepers, and empowering everyday people via peer-to-peer exchanges.Blockchain and cryptocurrency are the core technologies that enable decentralized finance.When you make a transaction in your conventional checking account, it’s recorded in a private ledger—your banking transaction history—which is owned and managed by a large financial institution. [...]

Financial services is arguably the backbone of our economy. As most industries, during these times, transformation has accelerated.The need to adapt to the acceleration of the digital world is the strategy of this highly regulated sector of the economy.Fintech Digital Wallets & Genomics are the next sector boom.Progress in genomics is expected to fundamentally disrupt [...]