The open road to the metaverse
Kanv Pandit
THE metaverse is open for business, and financial services have a role to play. How can payments providers and their technology partners help create more open, and more secure, virtual environments – and what’s in it for them?
The level of attention that the metaverse is attracting is skyrocketing, with both companies and individuals vying for virtual real estate. On our shores, one of the region’s largest real estate companies is hosting experiential retail offerings in Decentraland; a hospitality group is opening a hotel in the same virtual world; and a graduate school is planning to start a metaverse campus.
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