Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Catch the full episode here: youtu.be/YvrAmmgjvbw
For more than a hundred years, banks have taken intangible assets as collateral without any real way to value them. That gap left trillions in innovation locked out of the credit system. No reserve capital credit for the bank, no loan for the business. The result was a financing bottleneck that pushed companies toward private equity and venture capital instead.
This episode traces the piece of financial engineering built in the late 1990s that started closing that gap, letting institutions finally use assets they already held. The guest walks through how that shift dented the reliance on outside equity funding and what it reveals about how undervalued intangible assets remain across the banking sector today.
Catch the full episode here: youtu.be/YvrAmmgjvbw
For more than a hundred years, banks have taken intangible assets as collateral without any real way to value them. That gap left trillions in innovation locked out of the credit system. No reserve capital credit for the bank, no loan for the business. The result was a financing bottleneck that pushed companies toward private equity and venture capital instead.
This episode traces the piece of financial engineering built in the late 1990s that started closing that gap, letting institutions finally use assets they already held. The guest walks through how that shift dented the reliance on outside equity funding and what it reveals about how undervalued intangible assets remain across the banking sector today.
