Welcome to «The Gspröch» Episode #14: Spotlight on Institutional Staking with Figment.
Guest: Eva Lawrence, Head of EMEA at Figment
Host: Stuart Petersen, Chief Revenue Officer at Wyden
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Staking ETH and other proof of stake cryptocurrencies is rapidly becoming an institutional domain, thanks to the opportunity of relatively reliable and transparent returns, regulatory clarity, and emerging infrastructure. One of the firms spearheading this shift is Figment, a leading provider of institutional staking infrastructure. Our guest on this episode, Eva Lawrence, is Figment’s Head of EMEA, with a broad career background encompassing law, trading, business development, and strategy.
Join our regular host Stuart as he quizzes Eva on the emergence of the institutional staking segment including:
- The current state of the staking landscape and what’s drawing institutions
- Regulatory and compliance considerations and developments
- Liquid staking and restaking – emerging strategies for optimizing staking returns
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Bio Guest: Eva is the Head of EMEA for Figment, the leading independent staking provider for institutions. Eva has a diverse career across law, trading, business development and strategy. Eva has been in the crypto space since 2018 and was previously COO of Arcane Crypto, a Nordic listed crypto platform. She has 8+ years experience in finance, primarily at Morgan Stanley, where she was Head of EMEA Flow Trading for Securities Lending after working in FX Prime Brokerage. In addition, Eva is a UK qualified lawyer, with experience in digital assets, securities, funds and financial services.
Bio Host: Stuart has a wealth of leadership experience in scaling highly complex fintech business models. Starting out at Thomson Financial, he then embarked on a 15-year career with quantitative solutions provider Algorithmics to build up the firm’s buy-side business. After Algorithmics, he joined industry leaders such as S&P Global, IBM, and Arria NLG, a leading provider of Natural Language Generation solutions.