NCFA Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL (Vol 1, Issue 1)
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada (NCFA) and exclusive Title Partner of the 4th VanFUNDING conference held in downtown Vancouver Nov 29-30, 2018, TODA Network, are proud to present select content in an inaugural pop-up digital magazine format. This year’s theme, CONVERGE, immerses participants and builds bridges across the most disruptive emerging technologies, capital market innovations and key stakeholders that are powering new global markets, new decentralized models, new forms of computer intelligence, new IP, new infrastructure and new alternative investment opportunities toward the vision of a Web 3.0. The world is undergoing unprecedented change that is already affecting our daily lives — how we interact with financial services, generate digital wealth, invest, evaluate, consume, vote, store, transfer, and purchase anything of value. Blockchain’s momentum is not slowing down anytime soon and its capabilities for revolutionizing the financial industry go beyond merely eliminating the “middleman” to harnessing the power to improve fraud detection, transparency and trust, and enhance financial management, change the nature of money and encourage financial inclusivity. The potential is limitless. While blockchain technology has shown immense potential to push us closer towards a utopian financial world, the global penetration of [this technology] is less than 0.2 per cent. While individuals should remain cautious about fraudulent businesses that have arisen from people looking to cash in on the hype, the next wave of blockchain adoption and utilization will be like a tsunami, [where] you can partake in what's yet to be the most disruptive technology in human history or ignore it and get disrupted. We’d like to thank all the partners, speakers, attendees, volunteers and the entire organizing team for coming together to make VF2018 an incredible experience. Congratulations to Symend, Very Good Butchers and MOCA Estimator and for winning the pitching competition. We wish you all great success! The commercialization of emerging technologies is a journey, not a sprint. With this in mind, we encourage you to converge with us in volume 1, issue 1 of ‘Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL’ and step inside the future of blockchain, fintech, AI and alternative investing.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association of Canada (NCFA) and exclusive Title Partner of the 4th VanFUNDING conference held in downtown Vancouver Nov 29-30, 2018, TODA Network, are proud to present select content in an inaugural pop-up digital magazine format.
This year’s theme, CONVERGE, immerses participants and builds bridges across the most disruptive emerging technologies, capital market innovations and key stakeholders that are powering new global markets, new decentralized models, new forms of computer intelligence, new IP, new infrastructure and new alternative investment opportunities toward the vision of a Web 3.0.
The world is undergoing unprecedented change that is already affecting our daily lives — how we interact with financial services, generate digital wealth, invest, evaluate, consume, vote, store, transfer, and purchase anything of value.
Blockchain’s momentum is not slowing down anytime soon and its capabilities for revolutionizing the financial industry go beyond merely eliminating the “middleman” to harnessing the power to improve fraud detection, transparency and trust, and enhance financial management, change the nature of money and encourage financial inclusivity. The potential is limitless.
While blockchain technology has shown immense potential to push us closer towards a utopian financial world, the global penetration of [this technology] is less than 0.2 per cent. While individuals should remain cautious about fraudulent businesses that have arisen from people looking to cash in on the hype, the next wave of blockchain adoption and utilization will be like a tsunami, [where] you can partake in what's yet to be the most disruptive technology in human history or ignore it and get disrupted.
We’d like to thank all the partners, speakers, attendees, volunteers and the entire organizing team for coming together to make VF2018 an incredible experience. Congratulations to Symend, Very Good Butchers and MOCA Estimator and for winning the pitching competition. We wish you all great success!
The commercialization of emerging technologies is a journey, not a sprint. With this in mind, we encourage you to converge with us in volume 1, issue 1 of ‘Blockchain Fintech CONFIDENTIAL’ and step inside the future of blockchain, fintech, AI and alternative investing.
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real estate. Due to cause and effect, money<br />
is being spent in new ways from the daily<br />
latte, to owning expensive tech devices, to<br />
many more students enrolling in university<br />
and paying the sky-high fees associated. As a<br />
result, they’ve arguably felt forced to at least<br />
seek an enjoyable lifestyle, opting to travel<br />
the world, rent a nice apartment and become<br />
Amazon’s biggest clients.<br />
worth of real estate assets that will be listed<br />
on the platform in 2019. A real estate investing<br />
platform built for any investor,<br />
Even though they see houses as unaffordable,<br />
most of the younger generation still see<br />
homeownership as a desirable good<br />
investment. In 2017, REITIUM was born and<br />
CEO, Thomas Park, along with his Co-Founders,<br />
Michael Moll and Laura Fortey have dedicated<br />
themselves to being a solution to this problem.<br />
What started as an idea, which was presented<br />
and flushed out at the VanFunding Hackathon<br />
in 2017, has now grown to a company of 11<br />
employees and 18 advisors. REITIUM has<br />
raised $650,000 to date and is currently in a<br />
seed round seeking $3 million dollars which<br />
will allow them to achieve their next milestones.<br />
The platform allows anyone across the globe<br />
to fractionally purchase real estate for as little<br />
as $100. Collectively the younger generation<br />
have over $1 trillion dollars in savings, but<br />
individually they don’t have enough money,<br />
time or experience to put their money to work<br />
and grow their wealth sustainably.<br />
Through the use of crowdfunding, REITIUM<br />
is opening a global pool of capital that was<br />
otherwise inaccessible, allowing anyone to<br />
invest in real estate.<br />
REITIUM is a Global Real Estate Investment<br />
Marketplace, Protocol and Exchange<br />
that allows anyone to invest in income<br />
generating properties, earning a percentage<br />
of rental income (dividends) and fair market<br />
appreciation when selling property shares.<br />
Partnered with IBM, REITIUM is built on<br />
Hyperledger Fabric. Using smart contracts<br />
and blockchain technology REITIUM enables<br />
compliant, fractional ownership of real estate<br />
investing. In 2018 the REITIUM Co-Founders<br />
attended 22 conferences across 9 countries,<br />
resulting in incredible partnerships and letters<br />
of intent in excess of $830 million dollars<br />
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in cities and the UN predicts 68% of the<br />
world’s population will live in urban centres<br />
by 2050. This also means urban areas will<br />
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At REITIUM, we are building the future of<br />
real estate investing so we can support those<br />
looking to grow their wealth while continuing<br />
to live their desired lifestyle.<br />
Laura Fortey<br />
CMO + Co-founder<br />
Reitium <strong>Blockchain</strong> Technologies<br />
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