{"id":797123,"date":"2024-10-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=797123"},"modified":"2024-10-25T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T06:18:16","slug":"business-talk-mesh-managing-director-connie-bloem-explains-why-traditional-capital-markets-are-failing-south-african-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/797123\/business-talk-mesh-managing-director-connie-bloem-explains-why-traditional-capital-markets-are-failing-south-african-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Mesh Managing Director Connie Bloem explains why traditional capital markets are failing South African businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Connie Bloem discusses how Mesh is giving small-to-medium businesses easier access to capital markets in a way that traditional players cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem is the Managing Director of Mesh, and is passionate about transforming capital markets and the finance industry using new, technology-driven solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She began her career as a Digital Business Integration Analyst at Accenture, and spent four years at Andile Solutions as a Product Owner and Business Analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem then co-founded Mesh \u2013 a Web 3.0 company that believes in delivering easier access to capital and financial markets.<br>She holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Honours in Financial Engineering from the University of Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Business Talk interview, Bloem explains why traditional capital markets and the private sector struggle to serve the financing needs of small-to-medium businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She discusses how Mesh fills this gap and uses blockchain technology to enable innovative, safe, and secure capital-raising methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloem then expands upon the applications of tokenisation and provides examples of how Mesh has made a tangible difference to many entrepreneurial initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She concludes the interview by explaining how interested parties can begin their journey with Mesh.<\/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\/nN7w2vMrkNA?si=4wHuJaJ6dXWjSx2G\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Bloem, MD of Mesh, explains how the company is transforming the capital market for South African small-to-medium businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":797125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[20773,20830,20774],"class_list":["post-797123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-connie-bloem","tag-managing-director","tag-mesh-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797123","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=797123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797197,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797123\/revisions\/797197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}