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What's the latest in #MiamiTech? We've got the low-down from an investor's perspective. Founders: take note! Many thanks to Alpaca VC's David Goldberg, and to Lorraine Sanders and Nancy Dahlberg Refresh Miami for making it happen. https://lnkd.in/daXmV6Zf #investing #VC #fundraising

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Navigating Mexico's distressed asset landscape demands early monetization, tailored strategies, and strong local partnerships. As regulations and market conditions shift, businesses that stay agile and align with regional trends can recover and grow. Explore these strategies in the latest Hilco Global Smarter Perspective Podcast: https://lnkd.in/e_hi-J9e #HilcoGlobal #HilcoGlobalMexico #DistressedAssets

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The global economy has undergone seismic changes since the pandemic. Major structural shifts are underway, shaped by five fundamental forces: Deglobalization, decarbonization, debt, digitalization and demographics. Learn more from Ron O’Hanley, chairman and CEO, in his recent World Economic Forum blog. http://ms.spr.ly/6040oCtUe #WEF25

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It was great to launch our whitepaper - Building the Digital Asset Securities Ecosystem - at Consensus along with Euroclear, Clearstream and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The whitepaper provides a risk and control framework for digital asset securities to ensure they are as safe and sound as the traditional securities markets. I was delighted to join Jørgen Ouaknine from Euroclear, Gregory Rodeheaver from Clearstream and Kaj Burchardi from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to discuss the whitepaper and how three leading FMIs are partnering to help drive adoption of digital asset securities. Download the whitepaper and watch the video here: https://okt.to/dWvqlz #DTCC #DigitalAssets #Innovation

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Bloomberg recently sat down with Capco's Ervinas Janavicius, Managing Principal, and James Hiester, Principal Consultant to discuss the need for renovating electronic payment systems. They outlined the key opportunities for tokenization in financial services and emphasize that the work has yet to be done. For more information about tokenization, read the article here: https://okt.to/qLlob4

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PocketGamer.biz talk about current trends in gaming M&A and financings and the outlook for 2025, including top buyers and investors. Check it out. Thank you Peggy Anne Salz and Craig Chapple! #gaming #games #mergersandacquisitions #VC #financings #venturecapital #mobilegames

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Excited to join the AI Bootcamp for MBAs at Berkeley Haas next week! 🚀 The course will delve into creating tangible business value by offering: 🔹 An understanding of the economic and technical foundations of discriminative AI and generative AI technologies. 🔹 Insights from industry experts on pioneering AI infrastructure, emphasizing agentic systems, model deployment, interpretability, and safety. 🔹 Ways to unlock value through industry-specific applications in consumer goods, law, finance, and biotech. 🔹 Hands-on experience with real-world AI applications by developing LLM-powered solutions. Looking forward to an enriching learning experience! 💡 (additional reading material is welcome!) #AI #BusinessValue #IndustryInsights #BerkeleyHaas #BerkeleyHaasAIBootcamp

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#Morgan_Stanley Morgan Stanley has joined several of its peers in exiting the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a UN-backed coalition of banks dedicated to advancing global net zero goals through their financing activities, ESG Today has confirmed. Despite leaving the NZBA, however, Morgan Stanley said that it remains committed to its climate goals, which includes an ambition to achieve net zero financed emissions by 2050. https://lnkd.in/dB8dc2M5

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I'm very excited to announce the official launch of my impact investment fund know.capital with a $250,000 donation to the Drexel Food Lab which was founded by the omnipotent and super human Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D., CHE, CRC at Drexel University in 2014. These funds will help build out the physical plant at the lab which will expand its capacity and capabilities to work deeper with industry both large and small, and also create more amazing experiential opportunities for Drexel's undergrad, grad, and certificate students. Jon truly runs a unique and impactful program at Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions, and I can't think of a better partner with whom to embark on this journey. know.capital is an investment fund that invests at least 2/3 of our fee revenue profits in creating and operating unique nonprofit and for-profit social impact initiatives while pursuing maximum return strategies for our investors who bear no financial sacrifice for our philanthropic work. I've been working on this for 12 years (no one has accused me of working fast), and this is a culmination of countless mistakes and trial and error, and just pain and suffering (honestly). And there is more discomfort ahead of course. The pain points that I'm addressing are two fold: 1) "impact investing" is ill-defined and the impact side of the equation is unclear, and 2) nonprofits suffer from structural liabilities of fragmentation, governance structure, and fundraising dynamic that potentially compromise the pursuit of their missions and their ultimate impact. These two pain points have to be addressed concurrently since there is no other mechanism that I've been able to come up other than what I know best (Wall Street's fee business model) that can act as a sustainable funding source for needed social solutions that may not have any ROI prospects. And we need to pay nonprofit professionals more if we are to attract the best talent. We can't ask people to sacrifice "for the greater good" when they are often doing thankless work, getting paid pauper wages, and worrying whether or not they can retire with any level of financial security. From an investor's point of view, it's important to point out that this is not a zero sum equation. We're just offering another solution to investors who may care about also making a social impact of some kind, but with no financial sacrifice (have cake and eat it too). One can still have a traditional wealth manager and investments, one can still donate money to a worthy nonprofit or a university endowment, etc. We just want to expand the pie of what social impact investing and philanthropy could mean, create solutions that can potentially be massively scalable, and direct capital and world-class talent to initiatives that can potentially make the world a better place. Imagine if "Wall Street" can do that. More to come!

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Venture debt deal volume is on pace for a record year as high-growth companies look to extend their runway and navigate the current VC investment environment. Read this new article from the SVB team for a full update on the key trends impacting venture debt: https://lnkd.in/eHCkpu84 #VC #startups

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Why has #infrastructure gone from ~1% of the private asset sphere to about ~25% over the last couple of decades? 🚀 KKR's Raj Agrawal discusses what’s driven interest in the asset class and areas of opportunity, including #digitalinfrastructure and the #energytransition, in an interview with Bloomberg TV. Give it a watch and download his 2025 Infrastructure Outlook here: https://go.kkr.com/4fhYSl5

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As part of our survey of users of securities finance execution platforms released last week, we asked market participants how they defined “execution platform,” and if this was the same or different than a messaging platform. Here’s what they said. More on #finadium: https://lnkd.in/e3wmsYpJ

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This is a well-articulated discussion that highlights key points many emerging founders and VC managers, especially first-time fund managers, often overlook. Love the insights Kristy Trieste! Looking forward to making a positive impact together in venture land!! BlackBay SVB Motive Partners Adam Weiss #VC #BlackBay #AlternativeInvestments #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity

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Private capital can support the revitalization and reimagining of old infrastructure to make these growth-oriented assets more valuable from both an investment and impact perspective. Learn more with Head of Impact Investments David Helgerson: https://gag.gl/sfICNN

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Hark's Founder and Managing Partner Doug Cruikshank will join in on the following panel on September 12 at the NYC Private Debt Conference. As the lines continue to blur between NAV Solutions and Secondaries, it is important for GPs and LPs to continue their education on these key topics.  #Secondaries #FundFinance #NAVSolutions #NAVFinancing #PrivateEquity #PrivateDebt #PrivateCredit

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Thank you Nasdaq #TradeTalks and Jill Malandrino for inviting me to discuss how evolving privacy and security regulations will impact venture investing. I joined Koryak U., Founder & Managing Partner of PRODAFT, and Eric Shinabarger, Corporate Attorney at Winston & Strawn LLP to discuss how security teams need to play both offense and defense in today’s evolving threat landscape. 🌟 Key Trends 🌟 1.) Ransomware-as-a-Service: We are seeing groups selling or leasing ransomware tools to other criminals. Looking ahead, organizations will need to invest in proactive defenses, like predictive threat intelligence and automation, to counter these evolving threats.   2.) Bloat in the security market: CSOs are struggling to manage a large portfolio of point solutions and communicating ROI. AI is accelerating code development and making it harder for CSOs to meet new government mandates securing the software supply chain. 3.) Increased regulation: Privacy and security regulation is rapidly expanding, with over 15 new state laws taking effect in the next 2 years. This, combined with increasing data, new technologies, and high-damage lawsuits, is driving unprecedented class action liability for data use and security. Watch the full discussion: https://lnkd.in/eewFZdCH #Cybersecurity #Nasdaq #Privacy #RegTech #TradeTalks #VentureCapital #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth

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Fintech Regulation: A New Approach Needed In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, conventional regulatory frameworks simply can’t keep up with fintech innovation. Traditional methods fall short of effectively managing both banking and non-banking financial institutions within this space. We need a regulatory approach that strikes a delicate balance—one that nurtures innovation while effectively mitigating risks. Regulations should be robust yet flexible enough to allow new ideas to thrive without imposing unnecessary constraints. It’s time for a thoughtful, modernized regulatory model that both empowers and safeguards the future of fintech. 🚀 #Fintech #Innovation #Regulation #FinancialTechnology #CapitalMarkets

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Looking forward to #DigitalAssetsWeek in May and my panel discussion: The CBDC and Stablecoin 2024 Evolution!

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