Chairman of Fineqia International Inc. (CSE: $FNQ.C), (OTC: $FNQQF) (Frankfurt: $FNQA) Discusses his Background at London Stock Exchange, #Blockchain in Financial Markets and the Vision for his Company
Chairman of Fineqia International Inc. (CSE: $FNQ.C), (OTC: $FNQQF)
(Frankfurt: $FNQA) Discusses his Background at London Stock Exchange, #Blockchain
in Financial Markets and the Vision for his Company
Point Roberts, WA, Delta BC – March 1, 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 Martin
Graham, Chairman of Fineqia International (CSE: FNQ), (OTC:
FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA).
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Q&A Interview Martin Graham, Chairman, Fineqia International Inc.
Q: Investorideas.com
Martin, can you give our listeners a short history
of your background in the financial services industry and how that led to your
current position as Chairman at Fineqia?
A: Martin
Graham, Chairman
After graduating from the London School of
Economics, I started my career as a fund manager before moving into investment
banking. I held a number of senior positions including Global Head of European
Equities at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Throughout my career, I had an active
involvement in raising money for technology companies. In 2002, I was
approached to take up the newly appointed role of Director of Markets at the
London Stock Exchange. I had direct responsibility for 75% of group revenues
including all primary and secondary market activities. In a 4 year period we
managed to quintuple daily trading volumes in a mature market, through a
strategy of transforming market efficiency utilising a combination of applying
the latest exchange technologies, creating a truly international client network
and promoting primary markets. I built the AIM market from an insignificant UK
small cap market into the world’s leading growth market, raising more money
than NASDAQ for a 3 year period from 2004.
Since 2010, when I decided to pursue wider, more
entrepreneurial and charitable interests, I have been involved in a number of
successful startups in the financial services industry, all seeking to deliver
more efficient solutions through the application of technology. I became
Chairman of FINEQIA at the start of 2017 with a vision to completely change the
way debt financing took place. I have also fulfilled my dream of producing a
high quality wine in Italy.
Q: Investorideas.com
The Company's original technology was an investing
platform for both companies and investors. Can you give us a brief explanation
of how it works and how it has evolved over the last few years with crowd funding
and now blockchain and cryptocurrency disrupting the capital markets?
A: Martin
Graham, Chairman
FINEQIA originated as a specialist debt
finance/crowd funding platform with the simple concept of enabling providers
and consumers of risk capital, especially debt, to come together in the most
transparent and cost efficient way. However, as a board we rapidly concluded
that crowd funding alone was not the ultimate solution for debt financing and
that blockchain and distributed ledger technologies were going to change the
world. Hence, we have moved to a strategy of building a platform which utilises
blockchain to transform the efficiency of debt financing which will ultimately
significantly increase market size, as well as have a huge impact on the cost
of capital for companies using our platform.
Capital markets contain huge inefficiencies which
are in effect, a tax on investors and companies, so I think blockchain
technologies will represent a real force for change, although we cannot
underestimate the vested interests which have a strong motivation to preserve
existing inefficiencies. FINEQIA, as well as building a blockchain debt platform,
has and will continue to make investments in key providers of blockchain
infrastructure, including in the insurance industry, which in my view is
horrendously inefficient.
Q: Investorideas.com
With your background at the LSE, how do you see
blockchain technology changing stock exchanges globally when you see NASDAQ implementing
it and embracing it as well as Borsa Italiana, part of London Stock Exchange
Group, teaming up with IBM to build a blockchain solution digitizing the issuance
of securities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe?
A: Martin
Graham, Chairman
Exchanges can play an important role in applying
blockchain technologies to the capital raising process and they do enjoy the
advantage of having preexisting clients networks and global reputations which
should not be underestimated. However, they sometimes suffer from being slow
moving, very conservative and utility-like organisations. In addition, some of
the plumbing parts of capital markets, where they make very attractive margins,
will face a real threat from well implemented blockchain technologies.
Q: Investorideas.com
Can you talk about the team at Fineqia
International Inc. and the collective expertise you have pooled?
A: Martin Graham,
Chairman
FINEQIA has a distinct advantage in being able to
call upon a unique combination of experience and skills, including having a
deep understanding of technology, how capital markets operate, how to build
start up businesses, financial strategy and critically, how regulators work. Many
new companies have exciting technology but absolutely no idea of how to apply
it to markets and create a sustainable business model.
At FINEQIA we have a strong executive team
complemented by an experienced board to ensure strategic focus and strong
governance supplemented by an Advisory Board comprising genuine global leaders.
Q: Investorideas.com
As Chairman, can you share your vision for Fineqia
International Inc. short term and long term and how you see blockchain and
cryptocurrency playing a key role following the formation of the Blockchain Investment
Advisory Group?
A: Martin
Graham, Chairman
We have a simple vision which is to utilise
technology to transform the efficiency of capital markets. In the short term
that will comprise of 2 elements; launching the world’s leading blockchain-based,
specialist debt funding platform and making strategic investments in key
infrastructure providers. We will not be limited to blockchain and will utilise
whatever technology delivers the client benefits we seek. We are also exploring
how to build (with key partners), a properly regulated exchange for
cryptocurrencies using our deep-seated markets expertise. I do not believe the
way current exchanges in the crypto space, fraught with regulatory and conflict
of interest issues, is sustainable as the overall industry requires real
liquidity solutions to enable consistent long term growth.
Bio, Martin Graham, Chairman
Martin Graham has a notable career in the financial
services industry. Between 2003 and 2009, Martin was Head of the Alternative
Investment Market (AIM), the sub-market of small and emerging companies at the London
Stock Exchange Plc (LSE) where he had direct responsibility for more than $500
million of revenue and 75% of group profit. Martin also served as Director of
Markets at the LSE, where he led the exchange's transformational growth
strategy focused on driving market efficiency, resulting in a fivefold increase
in market size between 2003 and 2008. He was also instrumental in building the
LSE's international franchise, which significantly outperformed its main
competitors. It is now Europe's largest exchange and the world's third largest
after the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market.
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