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Inside the Centralized Database Holding Trillions of Dollars

the un# podcast··4 June 2026·3 min

About this episode

Jim Hiltner, Co-Founder of Superstate, deconstructs the US capital markets stack  from the DTCC vault at the core to the broker-dealers, exchanges, and IPO syndicates layered on top, each one extracting fees the issuer never sees.