There is a Revolution in Global Trade
While trade wars continue to drag on, there is an effort underway to speed trade between countries not at odds by solving the root of the inefficiencies in global trade: too much...
Better Data Is at the Heart of Waterfall Calculations
Great article in Global Custodian on the opacity & inherent flaws within waterfall calculations for limited partners in private equity funds. Says one industry expert: “This is an area where LPs don’t...
Inveniam.io Is Built to Deliver Price Discovery in Illiquid Assets
Fascinating article in the WSJ this week on how hedge funds are stepping up their investment into private companies. Excerpts: “Fund managers say that they are being selective about which companies they...
The World Clamors for Yield
As the new world turns to DeFi & bank sponsored “DAO’s” – the old world reminds us why we need them. From reports: “JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay nearly $1 billion...
Why We Need A Decentralized Data Environment
Why we need a decentralized data environment …”Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating users’ data as a bargaining chip. Facebook would...
Inveniam Is Creating Bank Sponsored DAOs
A “DAO” is a decentralized autonomous organization – an automated system of governance based on computer code. Rules get made by humans; computers implement those choices in an efficient manner. Keeping middle...
Digitized SME Lending On-Chain Is Happening
Digitized SME lending on chain is happening in Africa right now…look at Jump Start Africa (JSA), a micro-enterprise lender in Uganda. JSA gave Joseph(below), a building contractor, $9k to buy supplies &...
Wyoming First to Recognize DAOs as LLCs
Wyoming has become the first state to recognize decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as LLCs – this is a huge, huge step. Remember WY was the first state to recognize the LLC structure....
Data Drives CRE
Data drives commercial real estate. Unfortunately it is processed in some very old school ways… Here’s what Two Sigma – one of the premier stat-arb hedge funds in the world – says....
Choose Optimism and Have a Plan
Sequoia says to buckle our seatbelts for the 2nd half of the year. They told stakeholders last week: “The U.S. is poised for stronger economic growth in the 2nd half of 2021...
Someday All Assets Will Be Digitized and Tradeable
From a Venmo press release this morning: “Venmo today announced the launch of Crypto on Venmo, a new way for Venmo’s more than 70 million customers to buy, hold & sell cryptocurrency...
Think Big, and Act
Imagine how history books will read 100 years from now about NASA’s “…small but intrepid drone became the first powered craft to fly on another world.” Another world … Wow. From the...
Two Way Trading in CRE is on the Horizon
There is a glut of allocated CRE cash and not enough product. Bloomberg reports: “Investors with a record hoard of money to finance distressed commercial real estate are finding themselves in a...
