Podcast: A sceptic guides Luxembourg’s fintech promoter
Nasir Zubairi of the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology has some very particular views on some of the newer varieties. About blockchain: “I’m not a technologist, but it seems a little hazy to me as a technology in that it’s a technology looking for a use case. Why is that the most optimal technology for anything?” On cryptocurrencies, he said “I personally would not have touched it being an ex-currency trader myself. I just couldn’t get to grips with the value of any crypto currency.”
Tokenisation can bridge funding gap for infrastructure
An American early-stage fintech named Pontoro recently pitched in Luxembourg its development of an innovative new digital assets platform that makes infrstructure investments more liquid, and thus less difficult to finance.