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Converge explores the growing intersection of traditional finance (TradFi), Decentralized Finance (DeFi), and financial technology (Fintech) in a time of unprecedented uncertainty, technological advancement, and change in financial services. As the world moves fast on chain and new financial rails emerge, the sharpest minds in finance and technology come together to share the latest innovations and make sense of it all.
The Market Update, a sub-series of Converge, is a global financial market news series covering the latest news and events impacting trade, payments and FX, with forward-guidance for businesses.
Tune in as we decode regulatory shifts, financial innovations, and market trends to help you and your business stay ahead.
Episodes
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Guest: Boris Kovacevic
The US economy has clearly been in a league of its own in the post-pandemic era. And 2024 has underlined the exceptional position of the US economy compared to its peers with inflation and employment data broadly surprising to the upside.
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Guest: Riya Grover
Join Riya Grover, co-founder and CEO of Sequence, as we discuss how her fintech, dubbed “the financial router,” is building a flexible toolkit to help companies automate their contract-to-cash process. The move towards usage-based pricing and the adoption…
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Guest: Boris Kovacevic
April has been about many things. In the United States, it was about inflation surprising to the upside and investors pricing out rate cuts from the Fed. In Asia, it was about a strong dollar leading central banks to verbally or physically intervene in FX…
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Guest: Siqi Chen
It’s well known that AI is an incredible tool for productivity, stretching across many use cases. But can AI’s tentacles ever reach the C-suite, with the art and science needed to delicately balance the broader needs of an organization? Siqi Chen believe…
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Guest: Boris Kovacevic
The macro markets look a lot different now than they did at the beginning of April, and the story has once again been US economic data to blame for volatility. With the 3-month average jobs growth running at 244 thousand and 3-month annualized core inflat…