Arunjay Katakam

The Future of Finance is OPEN

Technology EN ↓ 5 episodes

A podcast exploring how blockchain, DeFi, and open protocols are democratising global finance. Hosted by Arunjay Katakam and Ian Horne. thefutureoffinanceisopen.substack.com

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Arunjay Katakam

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🎧 Episode 5: Who Is Behind the Wallet? 04.06.2026 41:28

Episode 5 of The Future of Finance is OPEN tackles a problem that sits underneath everything else we’ve discussed on this podcast. We can move money faster, cheaper, and across more borders than ever before. But none of it works if you can’t answer one deceptively simple question: who is on the other side? Our guest is Melodie Lamarque , VP of Identity and Compliance at Fireblocks. Her path to the...

🎧 Episode 4: Orchestrating Open Finance: Bridging Traditional Banking and Stablecoin Infrastructure 02.04.2026 46:46

Episode 4 of The Future of Finance is OPEN features one of the most grounded voices in the stablecoin space. Chris Mason is the co-founder of Orbital, a cross-border payments platform that has been quietly building at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets for eight years, long before most of the industry showed up. Chris spent over 25 years in leadership roles at Citi, First D...

🎧 Episode 3: Where Is the British Pound Stablecoin? 05.03.2026 42:19

We’re back with Episode 3 of The Future of Finance is OPEN . This week, we sat down with Mike Ringer —Founder of ReStabilise , the UK startup on a mission to put the British Pound on-chain. Mike is a lawyer turned founder. He spent years as a partner and head of the crypto and digital assets group at CMS, one of Europe’s largest law firms, before making the leap to build what the UK has been missi...

🎧 Episode 2: Tony McLaughlin on Why Every Bank Will Soon Offer You a Wallet 12.02.2026 50:47

We’re thrilled to release Episode 2 of The Future of Finance is OPEN. This week, we sat down with Tony McLaughlin—CEO of Ubyx and author of the Ubyx whitepaper that’s been making waves in banking and crypto circles alike. Tony spent two decades at Citibank leading payments innovation before founding Ubyx. His thesis is simple but profound: tokenized money needs clearing systems, just like checks a...

🎧 Episode 1: Christian Catalini on Libra, Stablecoins, and the Battle Between Open and Closed 05.02.2026 45:43

For our debut episode, we sat down with Christian Catalini , co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at LightSpark , co-creator of Libra/Diem and former Chief Economist of the Diem Association at Meta, founder of the MIT Crypto Economics Lab, and research scientist at MIT Sloan. Christian was at the centre of one of the most ambitious attempts to reshape global payments. Now he’s applying those hard...