BANKS AND WHALES: Tokenization and Cryptoeconomics for Investment Bankers, Fund managers, Aspirants, Curious people, and Satoshis
About this audiobook
Are you interested in tokenization and cryptoeconomics, or curious to know what it is all about? Have you wondered about its impact on financial institutions, and would like to better understand traditional finance? Is tokenization of financial assets the "elephant in the room" for banks and a ''black swan'' for capital markets?
This is the definitive book to get you started in tokenization, cryptoeconomics, and its operative, offering insight into its role in shaping the financial institutions of the future.
It presents a clear, practical and entertaining vision of tokenization, as well as the new concepts of cryptoeconomics, capital markets and traditional financial institutions, to bring the reader closer to both worlds.
It provides a personal reflection by the author on the future of financial institutions and our current financial system with the transformative impact of tokenization and a new internet that gives ownership of data to users.
About the author
Ángela Álvarez has extensive experience in Mergers & Acquisitions of financial institutions, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Restructuring, Illiquid Assets, such as Real Estate, Hotels, Alternative Finance, and in Blockchain, Crypto, and DeepTech. Her professional career is a combination of traditional Investment Banking and the new digital asset economy. Passionate about the transformation of Capital Markets with Tokenization.
Coinciding with her time at a global bank in Mergers & Acquisitions of financial institutions, and in Investment Banking in special situations, she experienced on the front line the subprime crisis, and, later, the beginnings of bitcoin. Now with her company Aglaia Capital she advises in situations of purchase and sale of illiquid assets such as Real Estate, Hotels, Portfolios, and Alternative Financing, as well as DeepTech startups, Fintech, and Tokenizations of financial assets. For the last few years, she has been developing Action Monkey, a Tokenization platform and Marketplace for Alternative Investment Funds and Tokenized Real Assets.
