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Malta Business Review ONE-ON-ONE Blockchain Summit Interview Martin Vella interviews Manuela Sedvartaite founder of SociumTrade. Manuela comes across as a key game changer and innovator; a trail blazing woman entrepreneur driver. Her enterprising person gave birth to a thriving blockchain company, making significant differences in the business community. Manuela Sedvartaite MBR: What can you tell us about Socium Trade and the role you play in it? MS: Socium Trade is a decentralised empowering financing platform, enabling to connect traders and investors, to engage in trade without intermediaries. This means we have created a place where you could invest your money with complete transparency and trust, a place where all the data on your investments is 100% verifiable and accessible and a trustee may take informed decisions and engaged in market activities. This is where an accurate, constantly updated ranking system incentivizes traders to maximise their performance in a way that benefits all. Where, whatever your level of knowledge, you have the tools and community available to help you learn more as you go. Here, the big institutions are no longer the gatekeepers. Everyone can interact directly with one another. Socium Trade is a place where investors and traders have the independence and freedom to grow and earn. And blockchain is at the heart of this vision, because it enables us to build a community where trust is no longer a question, it is a way of life. We act as a brokerage for traditional investors, as well as cryptocurrrencies. We see security and transparency becoming the cornerstones of ever transaction, and individuals taking control of their financial futures. I founded Socium Trade with the goal of making finance and trading easy for everyone. It is the cross-section between trading platform and social network. It brings together traders and investors, enabling traders to procure capital for their portfolios, while giving investors the ability to fund professionals without involving a third party. My role is to oversee all aspects of management and development, managing over 40 employees working on the project. MBR: What motivated you to realise this vision and embark on this journey? MS: I used to work with artificial intelligence, biotechnology and my background came from management consulting and slowly moved into emerging technologies, where I began to love what I was doing. When I was working with one of the big Forex I thought the operational and risk management systems were actually very poorly built and that is where I saw the potential of blockchain technology, hence all my motivation that drove me towards this objective. MBR: How is SociumTrade looking to change the game through its trading and investment platform? MS: For traders and investors, remaining profitable and growing portfolios in an extended bear trend is hard. Doing it by yourself, without the help of trading and investing networks, is even harder, but existing communities can be insecure, illegitimate, and expensive. SociumTrade is looking to change the game through its trading and investment platform that is accessible, secure, and transparent to all its participants. Akin to a niche social network, users on the platform can communicate and collaborate to share strategies, resources, and research findings with one another. For the average individual beginning their trek into crypto or traditional markets, connecting themselves with private trading groups, investment pools, and even intuitive trading interfaces is often impossible for those unwilling to sacrifice huge amounts to subscription fees or jeopardize their assets to covertly malicious entities. SociumTrade is shifting the paradigm of a tokenized-economy with its comprehensive ecosystem that will connect its worldwide users to the products and tools most commonly sought after among traders and investors alike. Moreover, the platform prioritizes transparency and security so that funds and profits are never put in danger. The core features of the platform are as follows: Peer-To-Peer Transactions: Traders can participate in over-the-counter transactions with one another in a trustless, secure manner. For coins with low liquidity or little support from exchanges, this means traders are never subject to paying massive premiums or having their funds lost on shoddy exchanges. "And blockchain is at the heart of this vision, because it enables us to build a community where trust is no longer a question, it is a way of life. Decentralized P2P Lending: SociumTrade users can cooperate in peer-to-peer lending operations. Investors can lease their holdings for whatever interest rate they offer, and traders can take advantage of available funds to maximize their exposure or take advantage of trading opportunities without jeopardizing their current holdings. Follow Traders: Users on the platform broadcast their trades to the ecosystem and other traders can take note of the strategies used by their peers. 18
ONE-ON-ONE Malta Business Review Investment Consortiums and Pools: Users can combine their assets in order to cooperate to build larger funds. While investment consortiums allow for effective capital management 24/7, investment pools enable participants to earn passive income with minimal risk. Intuitive Trading Interface: A key focus of SociumTrade is user experience. The trading interface is straightforward and powerful. Users build their own terminal design, have a custom layout and choose tools to be visible. From the charting interface, users can draw and highlight graphs, input trends, study candles, and more. When they are ready to trade, any amount of market or limit orders can be made simultaneously. Data-Intelligence: SociumTrade has a built-in AI driven analytical engine to watch and predict market trends, indicate the potential market opportunities, analyze traders behaviour and ratios, rank traders or funds based on performance data. As a result, SociumTrade provides a decentralized, intuitive, accessible, and highly powerful financial ecosystem. KYC/AML compliance ensures all users remain honest and regulations are followed. Rating metrics can be applied to different assets, strategies, and traders to further share knowledge and opinions. Manuela Sedvartaite Socium Trade Inc. Co Founder and CMO Dedicated to applying emerging technologies to transform the financial landscape, Manuela is the founder of SociumTrade, a platform offering a combination of multi-asset trading and investment with the flexibility and openness of a social network. Her vision is to create an ecosystem for secure investments worldwide using blockchain technology. Currently, she works amongst startups, regulators, investors and incumbent financial institutions to develop a collaborative approach to rethinking financial services. Manuela holds a business degree from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and has a diverse set of experience ranging from robotic process automation to Big 4 auditing. MBR All rights reserved - Copyright 2018 Photo credit: Getty Images www.maltabusinessreview.net 19
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