Embedded Custody: The Shift from Digitization to Tokenization w/ Nitin GAUR [Metaco Talks #33]

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

For this METACO TALKS episode, we were joined by Nitin Gaur, Managing Director at State Street Digital, a division of State Street Bank focusing on digital assets and technologies including cryptocurrencies, central bank digital currency, blockchain, and tokenization. Nitin leads the digital asset and technology design, with aspirations to transition part of the company’s financial market infrastructure and its clients to the new digital economy.

In a previous role, Nitin, served as the founder and director of IBM Digital Asset Labs — committed to devising industry standards, use cases and working toward making blockchain for enterprise a reality. In parallel, Nitin also served as chief technology officer of IBM World Wire — a cross-border payment solution utilizing digital assets. Nitin also founded IBM Blockchain Labs and led the effort to establish blockchain practice for the enterprise.

Topics covered

1. The current state and pre-requisites to tokenization
2. Overcoming the regulatory and compliance issues in the recent market events
3. The current state of the market, its (un)structure and the history of the promise of crypto

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice.