Every Company Will Be a Crypto Company: Expert Insights with Sandy Kaul from Franklin Templeton
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What happens when traditional finance and decentralized finance collide? Join us in this insightful interview with Sandy Kaul, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton, as we explore the firm’s groundbreaking crypto experiments, DeFi-enabled opportunities, and the future of tokenized money market funds. Key Topics Covered Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund How evolving crypto infrastructure is reshaping TradFi New TradFi products enabled by crypto Tokenization vs. stablecoins Supply chain and enterprise resource management powered by DeFi Regulation, obstacles, and the merging of TradFi and DeFi Get a front-row seat to how one of the world’s leading financial institutions is driving innovation in the space. Chapters: 00:00 Defiant Intro 01:04 Introduction to Sandy Kaul, Head of Innovation at Franklin Templeton 06:56 Franklin Templeton experimenting with crypto to save costs 08:11 Franklin Templeton’s onchain money market fund 09:26 Evolving crypto infrastructure from 2019 to today 11:42 What do institutions look for when planning to launch a product onchain? 13:41 Choosing blockchains based on use cases 16:15 Three new TradFi offerings enabled by crypto 19:56 Additional applications for DeFi: supply chain management 21:56 Additional applications for DeFi: enterprise resource management systems 22:49 Tokenized money market funds vs. stablecoins 25:11 Product bundles and asset classes 28:31 Obstacles to offering more crypto products 31:26 What clarity are you looking to regulation for? 34:16 Complex DeFi products being accepted in TradFi 35:13 DeFi and TradFi need to support one another 37:04 Regulation will open up new pools of assets and value 38:56 What will the merging of TradFi and crypto look like? 41:10 Will the back of house for these firms move onchain? 42:55 Consumer demand for crypto products 47:15 Payments outside of fiat 48:34 Incorporating crypto into Franklin Templeton model portfolios 50:35 What is the demand for current crypto offerings? 54:30 What does success look like for Franklin Templeton? 55:30 Closing Remarks
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