Streamlining Corporate Due Diligence

03/16/21 • 14 min

In this episode, Partner James Burnie is joined by Cindy van Niekerk, Founder of Umazi. Umazi a new fintech that automates and accelerates the corporate identity verification process, using distributed ledger technology and network effects to address inefficiencies.

Cindy discusses with James the inefficiencies in the corporate identity verification process and how DLT addresses these, and whether there are particular types of customers and use cases Cindy is currently seeing the Umazi solution being used for and can we see this as likely to change over time?

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Trading Crypto Assets Through Exchanges

In this episode, James Burnie is Joined by Henry Price, Head of Crypto & Digital Assets at GCEX. Henry shares how a cryptoasset exchange differs from more traditional exchanges, tips for users to be able to determine which exchanges they should use, and what he thinks the future for cryptoasset exchanges holds?

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Trading Digital Assets With a Custodian

In this episode James is joined by Ralph Payne, CFO of Copper.Co, a crypto custodian which allows you to trade without moving assets to exchanges, with a view to eliminating the risk of hacked, frozen, or misappropriated assets.

Ralph and James explore in detail the use cases for why you should use a custodial solution rather than doing self-custody, and the main issues to be aware of when setting up a custodian for cryptoassets.

Ralph also shares some of the different approaches taken by custodians to securing cryptoassets, as well Coppers own ultra-secure methodology.