{"id":710384,"date":"2023-08-14T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=710384"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T07:07:04","slug":"business-talk-connie-bloem-on-how-mesh-is-disrupting-the-blockchain-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/710384\/business-talk-connie-bloem-on-how-mesh-is-disrupting-the-blockchain-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Connie Bloem on how Mesh is disrupting the blockchain sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk interview with Michael Avery, Mesh Managing Director Connie Bloem discusses how Mesh is disrupting the blockchain sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem is passionate about transforming capital markets and the financial industry through the use of technology-driven solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has a strong educational background in industrial and financial engineering from the University of Pretoria, and uses this to bring her visions and strategies to realisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem began her career as a Digital Business Integration Analyst at Accenture, before spending over four years at Andile Solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There, she worked as a Business Analyst and Product owner, before leaving to co-found Mesh \u2013 a Web 3.0 platform business focused on making financial and capital markets more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Bloem tells Avery what inspired her to found Mesh &#8211; and how it facilitates the trading of real-world financial assets on the blockchain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then explains what sets Mesh apart as a key disruptor in the blockchain sector, before discussing how Mesh\u2019s parent company &#8211; 42Markets Group &#8211; recently received capital investment from Convergence Partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem explains how this capital will be used to fast-track Mesh\u2019s growth, before discussing Mesh\u2019s plans to expand to other regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by providing predictions for the future of digital currencies worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Connie Bloem below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bqicpzGeqtw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Bloem tells Michael Avery what inspired her to found Mesh, and how it facilitates the trading of real-world financial assets on the blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":710388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[18362],"class_list":["post-710384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-mesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710384","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710390,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710384\/revisions\/710390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}