Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age

Welcome to GLEIF’s podcast series, where we explore the evolving landscape of verifiable organizational identity and digital transformation. Hosted by CEO Alexandre Kech, these episodes bring together industry experts, regulators, and thought leaders to explore how trust can be hardwired into every business relationship to ease global trade and accelerate economic growth around the world. Whether you’re a business professional, policymaker, or simply curious about the power of trusted organizational identities in our interconnected world, this podcast provides the insights you need to stay ahead. Subscribe now and join us as we explore the future of organizational identity.

Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age, a business show with 13 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  Episode #11

  Setting the Standard: Interoperability, Identity, and Data in a Digital World

  May 27, 202626 minS0

  <p>As traditional and digital asset markets increasingly operate side by side, the question is no longer whether standards matter, but whether the standards we already have can evolve fast enough to keep data connected across systems and jurisdictions.<br/><br/>In Episode 11 of Trust Talks, GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech speaks with Laura Stanley, Director of Entity Data and Symbology at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Vice Chair of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) Board. Drawing on a cross-market view of symbology and standards, Laura makes the case that interoperability depends less on new identifiers and more...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #10

  Proactive Post-Trade: Data, Digital Channels, and Verifiable Identity on the Road to T+1

  Apr 15, 202626 minS0

  <p>Europe's move to T+1 settlement by October 2027 is putting pressure on every link in the post-trade chain. Matching, confirmation, settlement, collateral management, liquidity — all of it needs to move faster, and with far fewer errors.<br/> <br/> In this episode, GLEIF CEO Alexandre Kech sits down with Maria Keller, Head of Data, Channels and Digital Operations at Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, to explore what that shift demands from post-trade data infrastructure — and how Clearstream is responding.<br/> <br/> They discuss:<br/> - Why instruction quality is the real bottleneck on the path to straight-through processing<br/> - How AI is...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #9

  Who’s Behind the Smart Contract? Advancing Trust Layers for Tokenized Finance

  Mar 17, 202621 minS0

  <p>Who’s behind the smart contract?<br/><br/>In this episode of Trust Talks, host Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF, speaks with Thomas A. Mayfield, Head of Decentralized Trust and Identity Solutions at the Cardano Foundation, about why secure and verifiable organizational identity is becoming a foundational layer of trust for tokenized finance.<br/><br/>They explore why it is still so difficult to answer a basic question in digital asset markets: who is behind the smart contract and the wallet? The conversation examines how the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and verifiable LEI (vLEI) can help connect on-chain and of...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #8

  Open Standards for Trust: How Interoperability Drives Adoption in Digital Finance

  Feb 12, 202645 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Trust Talks, host Alexandre Kech (CEO, GLEIF) speaks with Pelle Brændgaard (Co-Founder & CEO, Notabene) about why open standards consistently outperform closed networks when scale, adoption, and trust matter most. </p><p>They explore how organizational identifiers such as the LEI and vLEI can enable faster, more reliable counterparty verification and help shift compliance from reactive checks to pre-transaction decision-making under frameworks such as FATF Recommendation 16 (the Travel Rule).</p><p>The conversation also covers how open messaging and verification layers can reduce friction in cross-border and digital-asset payments, and how products like Notabene Flow ai...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  Episode #7

  Powering Cross-Border Trust and Interoperability in the Greater Bay Area with the vLEI

  Jan 8, 202615 minS0

  <p>In this episode of the Trust Talks podcast, GLEIF’s CEO, Alexandre Kech, sits with Eva Chan, CEO of Certizen Technology and Chair at the Asia PKI Consortium, to discuss ongoing projects focused on promoting cross-border trust and interoperability in Asia.<br/> <br/>Following its qualification as a Qualified vLEI Issuer (QVI) in 2025, Certizen Technology is exploring innovative vLEI use cases in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). This unique region, which encompasses three jurisdictions with distinct currencies and legal frameworks, provides the ideal setting to explore the vLEI’s potential as a key enabler of cross-border digital trust across indus...

  ListenShow Notes

Recent guests on Trust Talks: Exploring Organizational Identity in the Digital Age. Study who booked and why before you pitch.

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.