Follow our website, you know that we have unveiled a major update within the past few weeks.
We've unveiled the Fintech TV terminal, which is part powered by a strategic partnership with Tapping.
The terminal does provide breaking news updates, real-time pricing, access to 24/7 programming, prediction markets, and more.
Now that does stand for Transact, Authenticate and pay.
The company provides a unified tax.
Built to help consumers as well as enterprises and government systems transition onto blockchain tokenized ecosystems.
Well joining me live here at the New York Stock Exchange is Brian Foot, CEO of Tapping.
Brian, great to have you here.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Yeah, it's great to be here.
Thank you for having me.
First and foremost, tell us about now that we can see it on our FinTech TV website and how it gives you a competitive advantage.
Yes, so it's great to be partnered with FinTech TV in the sense that you all have these wonderful trophy asset studios that you do such a great job hosting at, and so integrating the tap terminal with your content gives the ability for us to have over 70 customizable widgets for customers to be able to interact better with FinTech TV content across multiple asset classes 24/7.
And of course Brian, it is the.
Summer there's been a lot of focus on the New York Knicks here given their NBA championship win and also the ongoing World Cup, but I understand you're down in San Diego for the NASCAR weekend.
So tell us what happened there.
Yes, it was great.
We did a tap car with our driver Joey Gay, so that was wonderful.
We really like Joey and have a great relationship with him and promoted it on the FinTech TV terminal, so that was pretty cool.
They called it the race on the.
In San Diego, so it was the first time they've ever had a race course at a working military base for NASCAR.
So NASCAR historically has some of the best results as an advertiser.
So it's kind of fun to converge all the wonderful content that you all have here on FinTech TV with the tap announcement of Tap Advisors, Zero Day Advisors, which is a subsidiary of ours which focuses purely on military families, pilots, first responders, etc.
And Brian, we're here at the New York Stock Exchange, the center of finance here in the US, and when we take a look at what's happening in the markets, 2026 has been quite the year, and there's a lot of anticipation ahead of some more mega IPOs.
So when it comes to SpaceX, what's happening when it comes to SpaceX and TA?
Yes, so that was really exciting to see how in real time on the terminal with FinTech TV we can feature all these new IPs. that are coming out, there's so much also discussion around the migration of private companies into the public markets.
So I think just as important as traditional IPOs is the migration of these cap tables and these investor holdings that merge from being in the privatized markets into the public markets, and that's where tokenization and a blockchain asset registry like TPP, the TAP data room, TAP tokenized cap tables will give us the ability to help.
Both issuers but also our investors on the terminal navigate those transitions because it's becoming such a big deal to move from the private to the public markets in more retail centric ways than than just kind of traditional institutional issuances.
Yes, and you brought up an important point, so I do want to ask you about what's happening when it comes to infrastructure, especially when we're talking about digital assets.
Training, trading, especially given some of the announcements we've seen regarding 24/7 trading, of course, and tokenization.
So tell us your take on infrastructure here.
Yes, so the way we've built out our stack at TPP is the ability to tokenize assets, issue them.
Obviously you want to be considering.
Sort of that 1 to 1 issuance, right?
There are some false starts with some of the bigger players that tried to do it in overseas markets where the underlyings weren't properly there.
So I think it's really nice to see some of our larger issuers here in the states pairing up with platforms or exchanges that actually do the 1 to 1 on tokenization to make sure the customer is investing in the actual underlyings.
Really important to peg that then to a private semi-private or public registry that also gives you a strong understanding of what you own as that merges from private to public and certainly tokenization will help people better represent what they own, but then also obviously trade track, settle and spend a lot faster and more immediately with tokenization.
So for us it's It's a window we're stepping into that we've been waiting for for a long time, as you can see from some of our IP filings and so on from 2019 and 2020.
So for a lot of us it's a really nice threshold moment to kind of step into the markets we've been preparing for with our infrastructure for some time.
Yes, and Brian, finally, before I let you go, as we head into the second half of 2026, there's a lot of expectations when it comes to the markets, but what is on the horizon for TP?
Yes, so for TP, the ability for us to step into obviously the partnership with FinTech TV, so taking distributors like FinTech TV that are doing world-class studios, world class content, and 24/7 markets.
Pegging that to agentic information that can be readily digested by either human beings or agents, pairing those folks with verified identity and a wallet to be able to then trade or track or pay.
Moving from information to action in one seamless platform here at FTV times tap.
So for us it's stepping into an environment that meets the moment for what we've built out on our infrastructure and giving people real-time participation in markets across both retail and institutional.
Well, Brian, a lot to keep our eyes on as we head into the second half of the year.
So great having you on the show today.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Likewise, exciting time.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
