Determine Expertise Options Co., Ltd. (determine) Bernstein forty second Annual Strategic Choices Assembly Might 27, 2026 3:30pm EDT
Collaborating corporations
Michael Tannenbaum – CEO and Director
Convention name individuals
Gautam Chhugani – Bernstein Institutional Companies LLC, Analysis Division
presentation
Gautam Chughani
Bernstein Institutional Companies LLC, Analysis Division
Hey. Hey everybody. My identify is Gautam Chugani. I am chargeable for digital property at Bernstein. One of many huge adjustments that has occurred in my subject is that we used to deal with cryptocurrencies, however the native cryptocurrencies have moved into so-called real-world property. I feel Determine is appropriate for that. So, Mike, thanks for doing this.
Query and reply session
Gautam Chughani
Bernstein Institutional Companies LLC, Analysis Division
So Determine has a little bit of a historical past. You are there for some time. How did that imaginative and prescient of the determine evolve over time? As a result of there have been regulatory adjustments and expertise adjustments. Please clarify it to us.
michael tanenbaum
Consultant Director and President
Thanks for having me. In actual fact, Determine’s imaginative and prescient has been surprisingly constant since its inception. And I feel the corporate actually had a function when it comes to constructing a market on blockchain rails. Trying again, this has been constant throughout completely different regulatory environments, completely different crypto winters and summers, and completely different rate of interest environments.
In different phrases, I feel Determine is a enterprise that has grown by way of all of that. Going again to the corporate’s imaginative and prescient when it was based in 2018, Determine was born out of SoFi in some ways. And SoFi had about $1.5 billion in month-to-month buying and selling quantity after I was there. And like many individuals, SoFi wasn’t a financial institution on the time. Many non-banks are all the time questioning how they will discover a answer for all of the property they’ve created. and the blockchain


