The BISON App Allows Uncomplicated and Reliable
Trading of Cryptocurrencies on the Smartphone

 

We were the first to provide crypto
buying and selling from an in Germany licensed institution.
Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

Media
Partnership

This podcast is in media partnership
with the Crypto Assets Conference, an event taking place each year in spring
and autumn in Frankfurt, organized by the Frankfurt School of Finance and
Management and their Blockchain Center.

You can learn more about the
conference here: https://www.crypto-assets-conference.de/

You can learn more about Philipp
Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center in our interview with him here:

https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-german-bill-to-permit-crypto-securities/

 

The
Chief Digital Officer

This time we talk to Ulli Spankowski
(https://de.linkedin.com/in/ulli-spankowski-08652916,
https://twitter.com/uspankowski?lang=en,
https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ulli-spankowski
) a fintech and blockchain entrepreneur, who sold his company to the Stuttgart
Stock Exchange, which than promoted him to be the CDO (Chief Digital Officer).
He is an economist by training, who did his PhD in market microstructure. He
co-founded his fintech startup with co-founders from Slovenia.

 

We met with the CIO of Börse
Stuttgart - back then - and discussed what can be done with financial markets
in the future, if you completely rethink it, based on blockchain technology.
Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

 

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Bitcoin was much bigger in Slovenia.
When my co-founder told me to do something in bitcoin, I said … Bit-What?
Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

 

The
Startup

Back in 2013, Ulli founded his
startup Sowa Labs together with co-founders from Slovenia, which he met during
an EU funded project during his Ph.D. Thesis. The idea of aggregating data from
across the web and social media on cryptocurrencies evolved into cryptocurrency
trading. They then sold the startup to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange in 2017 and
developed what has become their BISON app: https://bisonapp.com/en/
(App
Store, Google
Play Store). This was not a bad move, since Börse Stuttgart is the market
leader in Europe as a trading venue for retail structured products and one of
the 10 largest stock exchanges in Europe.

 

We started out with
cryptocurrencies, but we are planning to move gradually into security tokens.
Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

 

 

When I was attending conferences [at
the beginning of cryptocurrencies] I always said “The biggest problem of
cryptocurrencies is that no one cares about them”
Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart

 

 

Further
Readings / Additional Resources

Market Microstructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_microstructure 

Börse
Stuttgart: https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/

Multilateral trading facility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_trading_facility

Euwax (The market for retail
structured products, not related to BISON, but we talk about it as an offering
of Börse Stuttgart): https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/investing/euwax-segment/

OTC Trading: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/otc.asp

AML: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp

 

 

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The
Interviewer

This interview was conducted by Jörn
“Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to
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