Building the Future of Capital Markets with Blockchain

In this episode of the Wharton FinTech Podcast, Mili Tomar sits down with Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure.

Michael shares his experience leading Figure and how the company is building a blockchain-native capital marketplace that seamlessly connects origination, funding, and secondary market activity..

We discuss: structural inefficiencies in today's lending markets; blockchain and AI's impact in financial services; what tokenization means in practice for real-world assets; the shape of the industry as a whole as these emerging technologies continue to influence it; Michael's career journey and Figure's path to becoming a publicly traded company