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Episode 134
Season 1
Asia Pacific Series with Angela Conroy: Investing in private markets with iSTOX
In this episode of the Asia Pacific Series,
Angela Conroy, co-founder and CEO at
Notarum, an awesome RegTech based in Singapore, talks to
Oi Yee Choo, Chief Commercial Officer at
iSTOX, about enabling access to private markets for investors for whom these opportunities were out of reach previously. iSTOX is the first MAS-licensed integrated issuance, custody and trading platform for digitized securities.
Here is what they talked about:
- How does iSTOX work? Accredited investors (as per Singapore rules) can invest in hedge funds using iSTOX platform, which breaks down large tickets required by hedge funds and the like into smaller tickets
- Growing allocation to alternative assets of private markets among investors and the need to make the process more efficient
- Building a FinTech in Singapore and working with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (sandbox)
- Challenges of ramping up during the pandemic
- Importance of partnerships when building a platform (e.g., SGX as an investor)
- Digitization of capital markets