{"id":527278,"date":"2021-10-07T10:58:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=527278"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T08:58:23","slug":"blockchain-lead-at-investec-on-what-the-future-of-money-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/527278\/blockchain-lead-at-investec-on-what-the-future-of-money-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain lead at Investec on what the future of money looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Becker is a cryptocurrency expert working as the Blockchain Lead at Investec.<\/p>\n<p>He believes blockchain technologies have a profound impact on the way value is stored and transferred on the internet. In his role at Investec, he is responsible for the implementation of the best of these technologies for the benefit of Investec Private Banking clients.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Investec, Becker served as an economist and strategist conducting research for large corporates, asset managers and hedge funds for a decade before entering blockchain technologies full time in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In this Business Talk episode, Becker breaks down the complexity of NFTs and he explains what has made them so popular.<\/p>\n<p>He also shares Investec\u2019s plans for using blockchain technology and what if necessary for crypto to become the biggest form of wealth transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Becker shares his views on what the future of money and payments will look like.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KHtcvdyWgfc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain lead at Investec, Chris Becker, explains the hype around NFTs and the future of money and payments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":527280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[11439,15578,7440,1498],"class_list":["post-527278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-blockchain","tag-business-talk","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-investec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527376,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527278\/revisions\/527376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}