Around The Coin
Around The Coin
Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend
Why Financial Institutions Fear Vendor Lock-In - Natalya Thakur | ATC #601
39 minutes Posted Mar 4, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Welcome and Episode Preview
Natalya’s Journey Into Crypto
BlackRock and Early Bitcoin ETF
Founding Knova and Core Values
Big Bets on Institutional Adoption
Knova Platform Overview
Digital Twins and Workflow Automation
Why Institutions Move Slowly
Vendor Lock In and Strategy Pitfalls
Interoperability at the Asset Level
Canton Integration and Privacy
Future of Finance and Closing
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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 twi...