Renty Merisyan

High Fees in Financial Markets A large number of intermediaries such as primary banks, brokerage firms and intermediary banks are usually involved in trading and financing activities, which means that high fees are being deducted from investors on multiple stages. Excessive bank and brokerage fees can be unattractive and debilitating for investors looking to access different markets. Impractical Crypto Exit Strategies   Transferring funds in bull markets is quite hard, never mind in bear markets. We have seen the drop in crypto prices in late 2017 and how it impacted a lot of crypto participants as they were either unable to liquidate their tokens into other financial instruments or were forced to pay large fees to do so. Until recently, the worry of an inefficient exit strategy in the Crypto market was disregarded, especially when prices were soaring. As more investors, institutions, and funds started participating, it has become apparent that neither the traditiona...

INGOT Legacy INGOT seeks to be a pioneer in the financial industry providing innovative techniques and solutions to link global markets with global market participants. Being in the financial market since 1993, INGOT Group witnessed firsthand multiple inefficiencies over the years. As technology progressed, the global markets and their efficiency progressed along, providing investors with more opportunities. INGOT continuously works on providing all stakeholders an evergrowing broad range of innovative products and services globally, thus allowing it to gain sufficient expertise to link this knowledge to the new blockchain environment and create an all-inclusive and self-serving Ecosystem. INGOT Group provides through its entity INGOT Brokers, a wide variety of products and services which includes ETFs, international shares and indices, commodities, metals, energies, as well as currencies. Since its establishment, INGOT has been providing the newest and most up-to-date fina...

The Ecosystem will increase transparency by making all trades available on a decentralized ledger. This ledger will be available to all potential stakeholders. Data vending will be available to the public, as it will include a journal for all trades, investors, volumes and extensive data of all transactions within the Ecosystem.   Availability of information provides a basis for local and foreign investors to access the market with higher confidence thus creating trust in the IC community. As for the current liquidity landscape in crypto markets it is evident that it is disintegrated and frequently moving across exchanges. Major exchanges offer diverse crypto pairs without singular of any token or pair and offer divergent prices based on liquidity.   Thus, preferred prices for a token might shift from one exchange to another creating inefficiency as well as opportunity, on the other hand, exchanges act as separate “liquidity pools”. Each pool has liquidity in ce...

The Blockchain Revolution The IC Ecosystem will be based on the blockchain technology and will utilize Smart Contracts to facilitate the execution of different contracts, while eradicating the need for intermediaries and external interferences that restrict investors from fully engaging in all markets. By adopting blockchain, we are creating a specialized ecosystem that will substantially increase customers’ confidence, market liquidity and -most importantly- provide efficient market pricing and access to funds for all variety of stakeholders.   The IC Ecosystem will transform trades, settlements and payments and make them instant, bringing together different necessary components and cutting out third party intermediaries who usually delay the process and increase associated costs.   Moreover, blockchain will wipe out the need for clearing houses as all data ledgering will be decentralized and transparent to all market participant, opposite to the current centraliz...

Current Challenges in Financial & Crypto Markets Present-day financial services mainly consist of financing, investment management & advisory, trading and insurance. When it comes to trading and financing, the current financial system lacks in efficiency and transparency. The market entry complications that are facing investors and the service fees that they are charged are quite substantial, which is why some of these investors get discouraged from actively participating in the current market. Additionally, smaller investors get overlooked in favor of bigger and wealthier investors and thus, combined with the lack of trust in the markets that increased after the 2008 crisis, the global financial market is prevented from reaching optimal efficiency.    Lack of connection between Crypto and Traditional Markets The crypto and the traditional financial markets are quite segregated for a participant attempting to cross over or move their capital from one mar...