Q&A Interview with #Blockchain Company Fineqia International Inc. (CSE: $FNQ.C) (OTC: $FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) on Formation of New Blockchain Investment Advisory Group
Q&A Interview with #Blockchain Company Fineqia International Inc. (CSE:
$FNQ.C) (OTC: $FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) on Formation of New Blockchain
Investment Advisory Group
Point Roberts, WA, Delta BC – February 12, 2018 - Investorideas.com,
a leader in Blockchain content with its Bitcoin and Blockchain portals Bitcoinandblockchainstocks.com, Cryptocurrencyinvestorideas.com and Blockchaininvestorideas.com release an exclusive Q&A interview with Rudra
Dalmia discussing the recent Fineqia International (CSE: FNQ), (OTC:
FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) formation
of a new blockchain investment advisory group.
Rudra Dalmia is an angel investor, technology mentor and philanthropist and is heading
up the blockchain advisory board for Fineqia International Inc. He is also a
consultant to Swordfish Investments-a Private Equity and Technology
Investment Fund in London and the former MD of Saxo Financial Services
(Saxobank India), one of the world’s largest online trading platforms for
currency and securities.
Q&A Interview
Q: Investorideas.com
Rudra,
can you give us an overview of your background in the fintech sector and how
that led you to the new blockchain advisory role with Fineqia?
A: Rudra Dalmia
As an
asset manager in the private and public equities market in London, New York and
India, I have been a traditional investor and investment banker for over 18
years. I spent 4 years as the MD of Saxo Financial Services (SaxoBank’s
India operation) building up their white label business with some of India’s
largest banks and brokers. Saxo Bank is the pioneer in financial
technology and currency trading for over 20 years in Europe and Asia.
Building their white label business in India from scratch gave me
incredible insight on currency markets, liquidity and the power of technology
in maximizing margins. The closest thing to blockchain and crypto
currency was obviously the currency markets.
As an
early investor and advisor to Fineqia International Inc. since 2015, I was
involved in their decision to pivot towards blockchain technology and
have used my experience in evaluating several deals and recommended them to the
Board of Directors. Most of the deals done for Fineqia are in cutting
edge technology companies with some of the worlds most reputed blockchain and
crypto investors.
Q: Investorideas.com
In the
press release you say, "Blockchain technologies represent a paradigm shift
in the functioning of financial services. The long term value of this new
technology is still being mapped out and we want to actively participate in the
architecture of this new landscape." Can you expand on that and how
you define the paradigm shift?
A: Rudra Dalmia
So much
has been written about blockchain that it is hard to not be repetitive, however
the simplest answer for your readers is that a well implemented blockchain
enables automated (event based) immutable settlements that increase efficiency
and minimize fraud and minimize disputes because the rules are unmalleable and
defined at the outset.
During
the infancy of this technology and adoption of cryptocurrency as a settlement
medium, the industry will face several hurdles with regulation, fraud
detection, transaction management, security etc. The investors and
operators who work on fundamental principles of problem solving and strong
security architecture will survive and grow. The long term paradigm
shift will happen when fiat currencies become fully fungible in real
time with crypto and alt-coins and every enterprise is able to value itself and
trade itself in a global marketplace using multiple options for transacting and
settle gains and losses with the coin holder seamlessly.
In pure
economics terms, blockchain technology will enable the right pricing of assets
or factors of production with the utility they contain; the utility will be
trackable and monetizable. This will be the paradigm
shift.
Q: Investorideas.com
What are some of the top things you look for
in a blockchain company when reviewing it as a possible investment opportunity?
A: Rudra Dalmia
Our
investment strategy is evolutionary and will follow the curve of the industry,
as the industry matures and the lines between early stage to growth stage
starts clearing, we will adapt to define it even more clearly. At this
point we are looking at quality entrepreneurs who’s businesses are technology
enabled adequately, to confirm to long term blockchain strategy where the value
proposition is easy to tokenise. We are investing at various stages of a company’s
life cycle - from incubation to early stage to growth stage.
Incubation
- In the incubation stage we look at functional knowledge of the specific
business of the entrepreneur and test his logic of moving his business on to
the blockchain. If the founder has strong industry knowledge of his/her
sector and has a good roadmap to blockchain, then we guide the entrepreneurs
and provide them with appropriate resources and networks to build out the
blockchain stack. If we like the deal, we take a significant position in
the company and then guide the promoter on their growth path using our
network/resources and our advisory board.
Early
Stage - We look at the technological milestones achieved by the founding
team and their fundamental knowledge of their sector. We only engage with
businesses that have a strong online presence, where the teams have a
profitable track record in the traditional way of transacting and where the
path to expansion is clear. Typical expansion plans are tested in the
ability of the team to have a successful ICO, however that is not necessarily
the only criteria.
Growth
Stage - We have invested in, and are evaluating a few growth stage companies.
This is the stage where the business has been clearly defined over the
last 12-18 months and is ready to launch its beta blockchain strategy and is
already issuing tokens or alt-coins. Some of the most exciting companies
we have seen are in this stage.
The
continual calibration of this strategy allows us to cross-pollinate various
skill sets and transmit fundamental knowledge across our various portfolio
companies and subsequently coach them not to repeat mistakes committed by
others.
Q: Investorideas.com
Where do
you see the biggest opportunities for blockchain over the next year, and 5
years and with your background in India and Europe, how do you see it being
accepted and/or integrated there versus North America?
A: Rudra Dalmia
I feel
the next year is going to be very exciting where clear leaders will emerge,
those who will be able to issue alt-coins and also successfully ensure the
‘utility’ being promised is delivered to the coin holders. I liken this
stage to the early internet world where Netscape, Yahoo and AOL emerged as
dominant leaders. It is very difficult to predict the next 5 years but as
the power of computing increases, we will see an analogous growth to the
financial services world where speed of connectivity enabled right pricing of
assets with programme trading - for example some of the emerging blockchain
exchanges will become the new Nasdaqs and computing power coupled with
fibre/wireless high speed connectivity will create a 24/7 world market for
exchange of value.
No
country can afford to ignore blockchain technology, no matter what their
inhibitions about crypto currency are. Monetary authorities the world
over will realize that cryptocurrency is the gateway to blockchain technology
and is the only enabler of value exchange within the tokenised world. I
feel blockchain will be India’s Y2K moment all over again, when India
established itself as the provider of technology knowledge and skilled
personnel and continually moved up the value chain. Now, 2 of the world’s
3 biggest technology companies are led by CEOs who are not only Indian but were
educated in the Indian education system and moved to the west for post-doctoral
education; Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Sundar Pichai (Google).
Europe
will do fantastically well in this phase because of the strong power and
mathematical grounding of the educational institutes of the erstwhile Eastern
Bloc countries. Countries like Estonia, Lithuania, Poland etc will emerge
with strong companies that will be a part of the paradigm shift globally.
Q: Investorideas.com
Cryptocurrency
versus blockchain; do you think we will see both survive over the next 5 years
or do you think blockchain will be the one with longevity?
A: Rudra Dalmia
Cryptocurrencies
are the gateway to the blockchain transaction world. They are the fuel to
power transactions and transfer value, just like US Dollars power the global
oil trade, except there won’t be a single dominant currency. Exciting
times ahead!
Fineqia
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