Uniting digital assets with traditional financial services to create the most trusted banking platform
Date
Webinar recording from 15th of June 2022
In this Metaco Webinar, we discussed the story of LevelField Financial, a U.S.-based financial services firm who is building a banking platform for digital and traditional assets that leverages the strengths of the U.S. banking system, relies on a solid foundation of security and regulatory compliance, and draws on its management team’s expertise across traditional banking.
To launch its digital asset offering, LevelField will use Metaco’s Tier-1 bank-grade custody and orchestration platform, Harmonize, helping enable clients to securely store, trade, and settle digital assets. This technology is deployed on IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services.
Agenda
- The Digital Asset Market Opportunity
- Investment in Technology and Strategic Considerations
- The Highest Possible Security and Agility
- Uniting Digital Assets with Traditional Finance
- Speaker
Michael has a 35-year career in capital markets technology spanning four continents and institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, AIG, ING, BBVA, and Standard Bank. He has managed large global teams both for custom software development and the integration of vendor packages for a variety of trading and risk management solutions. More than once he was called on to lead teams through difficult circumstances, overcoming substantial obstacles to deliver innovative systems. Despite holding senior roles, Michael maintains hands-on involvement in the technology and mathematics of cutting-edge finance.
- Speaker
Peter is Global Head of Digital Asset Infrastructure Solutions at IBM, which focuses on confidential computing technology solutions that further secures institutional custody, exchange wallets, and tokenization use cases, which require advanced the most secure private key management. Peter is responsible for market development, technology roadmaps, and building sales and services infrastructure. As a certified design thinking facilitator, Peter also helps clients enhance their solution’s capabilities by leveraging IBM’s Hyper Protect Services on premise and on the IBM Cloud. Peter is a regular speaker at blockchain, crypto and enterprise architecture conferences.
- Speaker
Seamus has extensive domain expertise in investment banking, wealth management, commodities and crypto markets that spans market structure, regulations and technology. He spent 20 years building and managing trading operations across all the global financial centres with JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.