Wei-Shen Wong, Asia editor, and Anthony Malakian, editor-in-chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.

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This week, Boon-Hiong Chan, Asia-Pacific head of securities and technology advocacy and industry applied innovation lead at Deutsche Bank, joins the podcast. They discuss the importance of blockchain interoperability and go into some methods and key requirements to achieve that.

7:00 – Boon joins the podcast and gives an overview of his current role

10:30 – They discuss why interoperability between different blockchains is important

16:30 – Interoperability can mean two things

18:30 – Boon explains the highlights from the whitepaper Deutsche Bank contributed to

22:30 – Centralized hub vs. bridges and key requirements

29:30 – On and off chain interoperability

33:00 – Cybersecurity considerations

36:30 – Other blockchain challenges  

Contact Info: 

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Wei-Shen Wong: + 852 3411 4758;  wei-shen.wong@infopro-digital.com

Anthony Malakian: + 1 646 490 3973; anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com

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Episode 278: Tim Baker on Cuip lawsuit, data copyrights, and innovation in market data

Episode 279: Looking into the EU regulatory landscape

Episode 280: An exploration of the DeFi world

Episode 281: Countdown to T+1

Episode 282: Broadridge’s Joseph Lo on GPTs

Episode 283: S&P’s CTO on AI, data, and the future of datacenters

Episode 284: Bloomberg’s Tony McManus

Episode 285: Talos’s Samar Sen