Romain Braud is director of digital assets at Arab Bank in Switzerland. Arab Bank offers services for crypto custody, trading, staking, and lending. They also offer classic banking services. We will discuss - how Romain convinced Arab bank to embrace crypto - what are the obstacles most banks still face when they want to start a crypto business such as reputational risk - what kind of clients they have and where is demand coming from - corporates looking to get involved in bitcoin - Defi vs Tradfi and risk related to Defi and much more Time stamps 00:05 Introduction 03:47 How Arab Bank got started in crypto 06:20 Reputational risk for the bank 08:35 Profile of clients involved in crypto 12:41 Are crypto assets segregated from the balance sheet of the bank 13:13 Anecdotes from clients 15:45 Corporates looking at bitcoin 19:54 Switzerland and Crypto 21:16 What are clients looking for in Defi 26:41 Main risks in Defi 28:20 Defi vs Tradfi and what will Defi look like in 20 years 30:05 Rapid Fire questions —————————————————————————————— Links https://www.arabbank.ch/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainbraud/ Metaforum in Lugano https://metaforum.ch/?track=tsrtc Descript https://www.descript.com/?lmref=m0U0LA Shift crypto https://shiftcrypto.ch/bitbox02/?ref=W7XHHFMKYt cointelegraph https://marketspro.sjv.io/BXY1M9 braintrust https://app.usebraintrust.com/r/didier3/ If you enjoyed this episode, share this link on your favorite social networks https://www.theswissroadtocrypto.com/