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Tokenization: Rewiring Capital Markets

This podcast sets out the impact of tokenization as a reconfiguration of key parts of the capital markets value chain, from issuance through post-trade.

It addresses where the frictions, skepticisms and opportunities lie.

Duane Block, Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Crypto Advisory practice in Chicago, ties it all together, providing a big-picture perspective on why tokenization matters and how it could reshape capital markets.

Topics covered on this episode include:

  • Foundational Token Models
  • Raising Capital and Connecting with Investors
  • The Secondary Market
  • Settlement, Clearing, Custody, Servicing

Guest

Duane Block
Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal | Crypto

Duane has over 25 years of financial services experience across retail banking and payments, wealth and asset management, and financial markets infrastructure, and has spent the last decade focused on the institutional adoption of digital assets. Duane works with banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, payment networks, and other industry participants, helping them to identify, monetize, implement, and operationalize capabilities and offerings related to tokenization and digital assets.

Duane serves as a member of the Digital Dollar Project Advisory Board and the Asset Tokenization Working Group at the Digital Chamber. He also served on the Steering Committee of the Tokenization in Financial Markets Initiative at the World Economic Forum and co-authored the Foreword for the report Asset Tokenization in Financial Markets: The Next Generation of Value Exchange.

Host

Laura Paglia
President and CEO, Canadian Forum for Financial Markets

Laura Paglia became President and CEO of the CFFiM in August 2021. Prior to joining CFFiM, she provided legal counsel to a variety of financial services firms including banks, insurers, fund managers and dealers, their boards and executives. A frequent speaker and writer, Laura holds LLB and LLM degrees from Osgoode Hall and has received multiple professional recognitions for her expertise.

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