Last night, USC Marshall held its annual FinTech Summit with leaders from the Blockchain and FinTech industry. Blockchain was front and center starting with the opening statement from Dean Suh-Pyng Ku:
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This is the Bloomberg report that Dean Ku cited:
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Tim Spangler, from law firm Dechert LLP, had a lot to say about Bitcoin:
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He also cautioned the audience not to compare blockchain and crypto to what's come before:
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And he finally gave a definitive response as to what an ERC-20 token is:
https://twitter.com/blockchainbeach/status/1095524034593181696
Jackson Finio, Founding Partner of Fund3, gave his perspective on what be excited about in 2019:
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And there was agreement that blockchain will shake up the Financial Securities world soon:
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The event concluded with presentations from the non-blockchain, FinTech world, but it was great to see such an emphasis on the emerging space. Fight on!
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