Jalak Jobanputra
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- Milken Institute59 min
Money, Access, and Scale: The Evolution of Financial Technology | Global Conference 2025
Nicole Valentine, Ashley Bell, Ladi Delano, Jalak Jobanputra, Matthew Oppenheimer, Trevor Traina, Matt Oppenheimer
Leading financial innovators including Remitly, Tools for Humanity, and Redemption Bank convened to address the global challenge of serving four billion underserved individuals through biometric identity verification and alternative credit scoring. These organizations are deploying digital assets and real-time data from sectors like ride-hailing to bypass traditional credit barriers, enabling fractional asset ownership and reducing remittance costs for emerging markets. With the recent institutional validation provided by Bitcoin ETFs, the industry is pivoting toward scalable, trust-based infrastructure that empowers credit-invisible populations via decentralized finance and impact-driven lending models.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Trends in Venture Capital
Cameron Lester, María Ariza, Ron Cao, Jalak Jobanputra, Ela Madej, Ella Amadei
Venture capitalists Ella Amadei, Jalil Jobin, Maria Arisa, and Ron Cao convened to analyze divergent global capital trends, from late-stage liquidity gluts in the U.S. to Mexico's structural IPO gaps and China's emerging pre-IPO surge. The panelists identified critical sector-specific opportunities in synthetic biology, blockchain infrastructure, and fintech while warning that regulatory uncertainty and "people risk" remain the primary impediments to scaling deep-tech solutions. Despite these challenges, the group expressed heightened optimism for a more inclusive innovation wave driven by the convergence of mission-aligned investing and digital asset digitization.