{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"A2Z Fintech","title":"Your Broker Has 18 Months | The Week Finance Changed","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/96b58850\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":810,"description":"In the age of AI, stock trading is still writing cheques. That changed this week.On March 9, 2026, Nasdaq partnered with crypto exchange Kraken to build the Equities Transformation Gateway — tokenized equities trading 24/7, settling in seconds, instant, fractional, and always on. Four days earlier, NYSE's parent Intercontinental Exchange invested in OKX at a $25 billion valuation with the same intent.Two of the most powerful financial exchanges on earth. Same week. Same bet. That is not a trend. That is a verdict.In this episode, Aman breaks down:→ Why the stock market is the last analogue institution in a   digital world→ Why the ASX's $250M blockchain project failed in 2022 — and   why Nasdaq's approach won't repeat it→ How this is structurally different from Robinhood fractional   shares→ Why Kraken's Federal Reserve master account changes everything→ Stablecoins, the GENIUS Act, and the hidden infrastructure   layer beneath it all→ Three things to watch before mid-2027 — and why financial   journalists are missing the bigger storyThis is a solo episode. Co-host Zubin Vandrevala is in New Zealand. He couldn't wait.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📖 COMPANION BLOGA Man Who Blogs #32 — Chains, Clocks & Capital[SUBSTACK URL]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7Qyf0xWmHeg7LEUFCI-k-jpWOtyK3SxMMPFnu7Noa5M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ODdh/NDVjNDFmYzZiMzFj/OWY5MzM3YjExNDAw/YTQ4NC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}