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Former Huobi counsel and regional director Josh Goodbody is shifting to a similar role at Binance, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges by trading volume.Goodbody comes aboard as the exchange's new director of European and Latin American Growth and Institutional Business, Binance announced Thursday. He was most recently head
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Former Google executive Surojit Chatterjee has joined Coinbase as the company’s new chief product officer. Before joining Coinbase, Chatterjee worked as a Google’s vice president of product, tallying 11 years at the internet company, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a Jan. 29 blog post announcing the hire. An experienced hireDuring
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LAS VEGAS — "Bitcoin as an asset class has proven that mathematical scarcity can support an incredibly exciting asset," Dante Disparte, vice chairman of the Libra Association, said Tuesday. "It's not a means of payment. It just isn't."Disparte spoke at the Digital Money Forum at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in
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Mark Hipperson, who was head of technology for the Barclays group for over a decade as well as co-founder and former CTO at U.K. challenger bank, Starling, is planning a Q1 2020 launch for his latest digital banking venture, Ziglu. Billing itself as the next step in the challenger bank
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Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) envisions a future where custodians work behind the scenes to store cryptocurrency for other firms’ clients, like supermarkets putting their brands on third-party products. “The way we think about it is, you can build your own infrastructure but that’s really expensive,” Christine Sandler, head of sales and
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Huawei Research Manager Ruifeng Hu said that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s endorsement of blockchain technology greatly improved the reputation of the industry. However, there is a clear divide between blockchain and crypto.At the Blockchain for Global Impact Conference, Hu said that specialists working during the early days of the industry
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Formed in 2016, CMCC is one of the first Asian venture funds to invest in blockchain technical infrastructures such as the ethereum network, The firm raised over $30 million for its third blockchain fund from Japanese social media giant Line as well as from one of the largest family offices
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China’s securities regulator is reportedly setting up a tech division that will be headed by the former chief of the central bank’s digital currency initiative.Yao Qian, a former director of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), will serve as director at the China
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"This unequivocally proves that a debt security can be managed through its full lifecycle," said an exec. Source
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General manager at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Agustin Carstens seems to have changed his negative stance towards central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), now stating that such currencies could open up new possibilities.In his speech entitled “The future of money and the payment system: what role for central
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