Patrick is an innovative entrepreneur and a lawyer passionate about cryptocurrencies and the business world. He is the CEO of Novum Global Technologies, a cryptocurrency quantitative trading firm. He understands the business concerns of founders and business people helping them to utilise the legal framework to structure their companies to take advantage of emerging technologies such as the blockchain in order to reach greater heights. His passion for travel, marketing and brand building has led him across careers and continents. He read law at the National University of Singapore and graduated with Honors in the Upper Division and joined one of Singapore’s top law firms, Allen & Gledhill where he was called to the Singapore Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor in 2005. He created Purer Skin, a skincare and inner beauty company which melds the traditional wisdom of ancient Asian ingredients such as Bird's Nest with modern technology. In 2010, his partner and himself successfully raised $589,000 from the National Research Foundation of Singapore under the Prime Minister’s Office. He has played a key role in the growth of Purer Skin from 11 retail points in Singapore to over 755 retail points in Singapore and 2 overseas in less than a year. He taught himself graphic design, coding, website design and video editing to create the Purer Skin brand and finished his training at a leading Digital Media Company.
Valuing companies has always been more art than science and with shares of companies trading at multiples of infinity, should ICOs be revisited and even (gasp) revived?
Nothing quite gets your attention in the morning like an existential crisis — which is precisely what Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency was to central bankers.
Central bankers are feeling the heat of Facebook’s Libra digital currency project — but beyond an existential threat to central bank seigniorage, cryptocurrencies are raising the fundamental question of what money is to begin with.
As the cryptocurrency market matures, new entrants’ singular bet on Bitcoin may not fully capture growth prospects in other cryptocurrencies.
Opacity is as opacity does, so should it ultimately matter whether or not the opacity of an ETF’s underlying instruments applies to security selection or the underlying asset itself?
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