How to leverage blockchain technology to deliver financial messaging and provide a seamless cross-border payments experience?
In this episode, we sit down with Troy S. Wood, CEO and Founder of Impel to discuss the power of APIs in financial services, and how banks and corporates can leverage of this cutting-edge technology.
Troy shares his story of getting involved in the world of blockchain. He also provides insight into the foundation story of Impel & ISO20022, how to bridge the blockchain platform to future-facing banks and fintech and many more!
Listen to the podcast to:
🚀 Hear the aha moment of Impel
🚀 Explore the API use cases in financial services
🚀 Delve into what it takes to be involved in the blockchain industry
Highlights
00:00 Introduction of Troy
04:30 The foundation story of Impel & ISO20022
18:00 What it takes to be an entrepreneur in the blockchain industry
30:00 The starting point of Blockchain
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Troy S. Wood
CEO and Founder of Impel
Troy S. Wood is a blockchain DLT early adopter and principal, whose mission has been dedicated to developing software technology on the XDC Network’s blockchain DLT to address business challenges thereby applying optimal value-add solutions across the payments and instant settlement industry.
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Podcast hosts

Ronit Ghose
Ronit Ghose is the lead author of Citi’s GPS Bank of the Future and FinTech report series – the first edition has had more than 250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi, and one of the most read FinTech reports ever published. Since joining Citi in 1997, Ronit has covered banks in the Americas, Asia and EMEA. He is the Global Head of Future of Finance in Citi Research. He is also an Advisory Board Member at the Centre for Finance, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Ronit previously worked at the British Bankers’ Association and as a research assistant in Parliament. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, a postgraduate diploma from the University of London and is a CFA charter holder.
Gaurav Dhar
Gaurav Dhar is the CEO of the Payments Solution Provider Marshal in Dubai. Gaurav has been working at Marshal for over 19 years now He strives to continually be on the frontier of building FinTech ecosystems and solutions. His personal time is spent on working with and investing directly in innovators, with a view to the future of Fintech both locally and globally via his cache of relationships which include VCs, incubators, accelerators, and start-ups and Angel Syndicates. In his position as a board member of the MENA FinTech Association and several advisory positions to international family offices, start-ups, and funds, he looks to grow the relationships within the FinTech and start-up ecosystem to contribute towards the education of budding disruptors and eventually the growth of economies and the job market where possible in the MEA Region and abroad.

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