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Formerly Guiding Assets, Enterprising Investor is the flagship podcast of CFA Institute and the definitive program for the investment management industry. As stewards of the investment industry, Guiding Assets will feature intimate conversations with some of the most influential people from the world of finance about the topics that matter most to investment professionals. The show will also share crucial insights and best practices to help guide investors to make smart, ethical decisions. Enterprising Investor will continue to help build a better world for investors.

Host: Mike Wallberg, CFA

Producer: Mitchell Forst 

Mar 3, 2021

Episode #452 Will Digital Asset Securities Revolutionize Capital Markets?
  
Serial technology entrepreneur and investor Carlos Domingo, CEO and co-founder of Securitize, discusses blockchain technology and the power of digital securities, or security tokens, to drive liquidity for private securities and democratize access to investing.
 
Topics discussed:
2:30 - Intro: working in Tokyo and Japan   
6:24 - Carlos’ first introductions to Blockchain 
9:03 - What is Securitize?
10:18 - Defining terms
12:30 - Types of assets that are issues for digital assets against
13:56 - Revolutionizing the marketplace
19:40 - 3-part question: 
Is this a quirky trend? 
How will the public broadly adopt digital assets? 
Are investors ready for digital assets securitize?
22:45 - Cyber security risks 
25:47 - Are regulators happy or unhappy with the state of the technology
27:17 - What is Project Aquaman?  
29:26 – What is the industry going to look like to Carolos in the near and far future and what trends are driving the industry?
31:37 - Wrap-up questions
Ray of sunshine 
NASA trip 
Flight vs. invisibility 
 
Related articles and links:
 
“The tokenization of alternative assets” https://caia.org/tokenisation 
 
II article “This quirky trend”:  https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1qdqlgr4mq0w6/This-Quirky-Trend-Could-Bring-Alternative-Assets-to-the-Masses 
 
Blog about Project Aquaman: https://medium.com/securitize/introducing-project-aquaman-driving-liquidity-in-the-digital-securities-market-164e71107d3c 
 
John Hodgman on This American Life ep.178: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/178/superpowers/act-one-0 
 
CFA Institute members and charterholders Professional Learning Tracker https://cpd.cfainstitute.org/ 
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