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Amy Oldenburg discusses the challenges of integrating cryptocurrency and blockchain technology into large financial institutions like Morgan Stanley.

What does it take for one of the world's largest financial institutions to adopt an entirely new technology?Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Amy Oldenburg, joins Exploring Prosperity to discuss the hidden challenge of bringing crypto, tokenization, stablecoins, and blockchain technology into a global financial institution.Most conversations about digital assets focus on prices, regulation, or the latest market cycle. This conversation focuses on something deeper: how innovation actually moves from the outside into the institutions that society already depends upon.Drawing on more than two decades at Morgan Stanley, Amy explains why large organizations often struggle to innovate, what she calls the challenge of institutional transformation, and why understanding both emerging technology and legacy financial infrastructure has become increasingly valuable.We discuss:• How Amy's experience in emerging markets led her to Bitcoin and digital assets• Why Morgan Stanley began exploring digital assets years before most institutions• The internal resistance new technologies face inside large organizations• What "institutional grade" really means• Why tokenization is about…

People in this episode

Host: Bob Dewey

Guest: Amy Oldenburg

Topics covered

• crypto adoption
• financial institutions
• digital assets
• institutional transformation
• technology innovation
• financial modernization

Keywords

• crypto
• Wall Street
• financial institutions
• digital assets
• innovation
• tokenization
• stablecoins
• financial markets
• AI
• institutional transformation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Morgan Stanley

Products: Bitcoin, stablecoins, blockchain technology, tokenization

Places: U.S.

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