Johnson Chen is founder and CEO of Singapore fintech CapBridge Financial and its blockchain-infrastructure subsidiary 1X.
CapBridge is enabling corporate bonds, unicorn-company equities, real estate and private-equity funds to be accessed and traded by family offices.
In this episode of DigFin VOX, Johnson speaks with Jame DiBiasio about building CapBridge’s investor base, improving markets through next-gen technology, and a recent strategic stake in the company taken by AMTD.
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- 0:00 – Johnson Chen, CapBridge Financial
- 1:30 – CapBridge’s two business lines
- 2:29 – Providing access to unicorn company equity
- 3:20 – Fractionalizing private equity funds
- 4:08 – Asian demand for private equity
- 5:07 – Real estate
- 7:15 – Facilitating allocations to alternative investment
- 8:40 – 1X and DLT (distributed ledger technology)
- 11:25 – Piloting 1X for equities
- 12:20 – The problems that DLT/blockchain can solve
- 13:48 – Creating secondary-market liquidity
- 15:18 – The challenge of adoption
- 17:14 – Building CapBridge’s investor base
- 19:22 – Backing by AMTD
- 21:37 – The ceremonial blade
