Hej Venturers,
New episode dropping this week, you can already listen to a quick excerpt already today in this email.
As usual when published on the main streaming platforms, you’ll get 10min free and the full episode will be available for our premium members. If you’re not a premium member, you can today until April 2nd, 2023, become premium for 50% off (€45/y vs €90/y normally).
Next on the show:
- Lightweight ZK-centric Layer 1
- Enterprise-grade staking
- Wallets as an API
In this episode, we meet a “legacy” Middle-Eastern private bank that has a large wealth management entity in Switzerland that launched in 2019 digital asset services for its Ultra-High-Net-Worth Clients a.k.a UHNW, including custody, trading, staking, cryptoart collecting and very soon DeFi.
What is really unique is that Arab Bank Switzerland in 2019 was NOT expected at all to raise its profile up to the crypto game. But as expected by such an accountable wealth manager, its services are being developed really carefully with best-of-breed partners such as Taurus (for custody) or The NFT Factory (for crypto-art collecting)(disclaimer: I am one of the 128 Co-Founders of the NFT Factory) and other prime partners.
In this episode I have the chance to host Rani Jabban, Member of the Executive Committee, in charge of Capital Markets, Digital Asset Services, Financial Institutions and Marketing at Arab Bank, whom I’ve known since 2019 when they launched their crypto-asset services.
In this conversation, we dive intro Arab Bank’s mission when it comes to crypto assets, how to bank addresses risks and regulations in the space, and finally how the bank and its clients support digital and crypto artists. We talk about DeFi, education, digital and crypto art collecting plus so much more.
Stay tuned for the full episode dropping this week and become a premium member to get the full experience (50% off for 12 months, €45/y vs €90/y normally).
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Learnings from being too early in B2B Crypto in 2019 to raising a $7M round with Sequoia in 2022, with Thibaut Sahaghian, Multis' Co-Founder & CEO (YC S19)
Speak soon,
Raph Grieco
Host @ Runway Series Podcast / Writer @ Venture Notes
Founding Partner @ Olive Capital, web3 pre-seed fund
Co-Founder @ NFT Factory in Paris
Creator @ Beardy Punks NFT Collection
Founding Co-President @ La French Tech in Switzerland
