304: Will Crypto Kill the New York Stock Exchange?

20/02/2022 35 min
304: Will Crypto Kill the New York Stock Exchange?

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Episode Synopsis

Disruptive technology always creates casualties. I still remember a few years ago walking in a city with my oldest daughter who was about five or six at the time. We passed an old phone booth and she asked, "Daddy what's that?". Think of all the technological dinosaurs that have been forgotten in your lifetime. Records and compact discs? Typewriters? The Yellow Pages? Technological innovation is so powerful that it frequently overwhelms even corporate interests. Kodak was not very successful in blocking the digital camera, was it? In fact, it paid the price for not innovating itself. Could that happen to the New York Stock exchange and the mighty brokers and custodians that profit from it? Could distributed ledger technology disrupt the equity markets and turn our financial institutions into dinosaurs? My guest on this week's episode of Wealth Formula Podcast thinks that some form of re-organization in the way cryptocurrency and equities are held and traded is inevitable and his company is at the forefront of that evolution. Listen HERE