Why Financial Institutions Fear Vendor Lock-In - Natalya Thakur ATC #601

Stephen Sargeant interviews Natalya Thakur , CEO and founder of Knova , about how traditional financial institutions are transitioning into digital assets. Thakur recounts her early exposure to blockchain at BlackRock, where she supported initial Bitcoin ETF work and later promoted digital-asset education for women. She explains Knova’s B2B infrastructure software, which runs on-prem or cloud-agnostic inside client environments to unify traditional and tokenized assets via patented “digital twins,” standardized asset representations, and transaction templates that turn complex multi-system workflows into single API calls and a unified dashboard. The discussion covers scaling, privacy, interoperability at the asset level, integrations such as Canton, common institutional hesitations like vendor lock-in and short-term pilots, and longer-term themes including assets converging into one ecosystem, rebundling fragmented services, and AI shifting from reactive reporting to proactive risk and opportunity guidance. We are also available via: Around The Coin — Official Website Buzzsprout Apple Podcast Spotify Player FM Quora Medium X Facebook LinkedIn Tiktok Soundcloud

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Why Financial Institutions Fear Vendor Lock-In - Natalya Thakur ATC #601 is an episode from Around The Coin by Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend.

This episode is 39:31 long.

This episode was published on Mar 4, 2026.

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