Metaco Talks | Crypto podcast on building the future of Digital Assets

Our guest for this METACO TALKS episode is Andy Flury, Founder and CEO of AlgoTrader – an all-in-one trading technology solution for financial institutions.  Andy is a serial entrepreneur and software development expert. He served as a senior project manager and software architect at Siemens Switzerland. Amongst others, he led projects at the Swiss Intelligence Agency and various major banks...

Our guest for this METACO TALKS episodes is Peter DeMeo, Global Lead at IBM Crypto Asset Solutions for institutional custody, exchange wallets, and tokenization which require advanced secure private key management. Peter is responsible for market development, technology roadmaps, and building sales and services infrastructure.  On the show, we’re going to be discussing the cutting-edge IBM in...

For this episode of METACO TALKS, we have partnered with The Network Forum – the global community for the custody, settlement and post-trade industry – and we streamed it live exclusively for the attendees of THE NETWORK FORUM VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING 2021. Our guest for the episode is Maxime de Guillebon, CEO of Zodia Custody – the Standard Chartered-backed digital asset custodian for institutional...

This is a special episode. In a truly platform company fashion, everything we do internally must be done in a way that can be also consumed externally. We’re transforming the onboarding session of two of our recent new joiners – Craig Perrin (VP Sales) and Dario Duran (Solution Architect) – into a public-facing METACO TALKS event.   Craig and Dario interviewed METACO’s CEO, Adrien Trecca...

Our guest for this week’s show is Alfonso Gomez , who is CEO of BBVA Switzerland . Alfonso has worked across the world in many capacities for BBVA, including running the global private banking from New York. Alfonso is a big proponent of digital assets and he recently spearheaded the launch of a crypto trading and custody service at BBVA. Among other topics, we will discuss: How transformative can...

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, curre...

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 publish...

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...

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...

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 prestigi...

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 Quan...

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...

Our guest is Ben Robinson – co-founder of aperture.co, a strategy consultancy helping banks and fintech companies launch digital era business models. After working for Exane BNP Paribas as part of an award-winning tech research team, Ben joined Temenos, a market-leader in banking software. At Temenos, Ben was Chief Strategy Officer, and ran the Temenos MarketPlace, its platform for connecting bank...

Our guest is Mike McGlone – Senior Commodity Strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, specializing in the broad investible commodity markets. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a head of US research at ETF Securities. Prior to ETF Securities, Mike headed the commodity business at S&P Indices. His previous roles included head of futures research at ABN Amro and VP research, analyst, trader, sales at A...

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 transparen...

Our guest is Thomas Nägele . He advises international finance, technology and industrial enterprises operating in the fields of Blockchain/DLT, telecommunications and internet, as well as public institutions. As a Liechtenstein Attorney and being also a software developer, he focusses on Internet/IT law, as well as civil and corporate law. He was a member of the Blockchain Act workgroup (Trusted T...

Our guest is Michel Rauchs , Research Affiliate at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. Michel is a researcher and consultant focused on digital assets, distributed consensus systems (a.k.a. blockchain or DLT), and monetary/financial systems. His work and occasional commentary on blockchain-related topics have been featured media outlets such as the BBC, The Times, CNN, The Independent, DER S...

Our guest, Sal Ternullo co-leads KPMG's Crypto and Digital Asset service offering across strategy, product and service innovation, technology design and development, risk, security & compliance. Sal works with regulated financial institutions across technologies including cloud, crypto and blockchain.   In this episode we discuss, among others, about:    Crypto and Digital asset...

Our first episode of METACO TALKS featured one of the top German economists, Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner  - Head of the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC) at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and also a co-founder of the German Blockchain Association, the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), and the Multichain Asset Managers Association. &...