Oscar Dumant is the CEO and co-founder of Dowgo, building Europe's regulated market infrastructure where equities, bonds and fund shares will be issued, traded and settled in tokenized form. Asterion Ventures is the company's principal investor.

"It's not the money that's missing, it's the plumbing." Europe has the savings (nearly €39 trillion, including more than €6 trillion in France) and a transition financing need estimated at €1 trillion a year by 2030. Dowgo wants to connect the two.

In this episode, Oscar covers:

• a concrete case: financing a €50M wind farm in 4 to 8 weeks instead of one to two years, with one intermediary instead of five and roughly 80% lower fees
• what a DLT market infrastructure changes: settlement in seconds, 24/7, versus 2 to 5 days on listed markets
• the regulatory marathon: two years of work with the AMF and ACPR on a European market infrastructure licence, still under review
• his path from HSBC portfolio manager to founder, "jumping out of the plane" with his co-founder, called crazy by crypto and banking people alike
• the vision: an exchange built on European values, 100% EU-taxonomy aligned, issuances from €5M to €500M, never oil or gas

Charles-Henry Choël (partner, Asterion Ventures) sits on Dowgo's strategic committee.

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