Romain Braud is director of digital assets at Arab Bank in Switzerland. Arab Bank offers services for crypto custody, trading, staking, and lending. They also offer classic banking services.
We will discuss
- how Romain convinced Arab bank to embrace crypto
- what are the obstacles most banks still face when they want to start a crypto business such as reputational risk
- what kind of clients they have and where is demand coming from
- corporates looking to get involved in bitcoin
- Defi vs Tradfi and risk related to Defi and much more
Time stamps
00:05 Introduction
03:47 How Arab Bank got started in crypto
06:20 Reputational risk for the bank
08:35 Profile of clients involved in crypto
12:41 Are crypto assets segregated from the balance sheet of the bank
13:13 Anecdotes from clients
15:45 Corporates looking at bitcoin
19:54 Switzerland and Crypto
21:16 What are clients looking for in Defi
26:41 Main risks in Defi
28:20 Defi vs Tradfi and what will Defi look like in 20 years
30:05 Rapid Fire questions
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Links
https://www.arabbank.ch/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainbraud/
Metaforum in Lugano
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