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The move from a traditional bank to Bitpanda was a “no-brainer,” Barraclough said in an interview. “As cryptocurrency investments further become part of mainstream financial markets, retail and institutional investors are demanding tools which enable them to pursue traditional investing strategies while navigating trading nuances specific to digital assets,” he
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The New York-based Xethalis, formerly of Chapman and Cutler LLP, has long tackled crypto’s square-peg-round-hole regulatory status. He worked with the Winklevoss brothers in 2012 to submit the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application to U.S. regulators (the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has still yet to approve a single
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The announcement coincides with Robinhood Crypto also hiring Benjamin Melnicki as its new chief compliance officer. Melnicki, who was most recently chief compliance officer at digital asset manager Grayscale Investments, joins Robinhood at a time when its crypto arm is dealing with a degree of regulatory scrutiny. (Grayscale and CoinDesk
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Global payment network Roxe has recruited a seasoned economist from the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, to help lead its central bank digital currency project backed by Bitcoin’s (BTC) hashrate. Andreas Jobst, whose career spans the IMF, World Bank and Bermuda Monetary Authority, has been appointed as Roxe’s chief currency economist,
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Kate Rouch will be joining major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase after more than 11 years in various positions at Facebook. In a Thursday blog post, Coinbase chief operating officer Emilie Choi said the company had hired Rouch as its new chief marketing officer, responsible for overseeing the exchange’s global brand, as well
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Luxembourg-based crypto exchange Bitstamp has announced the former Kraken Chief Commercial Officer Robert Zagotta as its US Chief Executive Officer. According to media outlet Bloomberg, Zagotta will lead Bitstamp in its venture to take on the likes of Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN), and Binance.US.In a note to Bloomberg, former Kraken executive
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Amber Group, a leading Hong Kong-based crypto finance platform announced it has hired Chiachih Wu as a Blockchain Security Specialist. Wu brings years of information security experience having worked as a security researcher across blockchain, mobile security and virtualization security industries. Wu held positions at Intel Corporation as well as at
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The digital currency asset manager's new executives bring with them experience at firms such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Ripple Labs. Source
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Digital asset custodian Anchorage has nabbed a trade operations veteran from Celsius Network to manage the risks facing its $4 billion crypto vault.The new hire, Asaf Iram, said he will “connect the dots” between Anchorage’s financing, lending, custody and staking businesses as the leadership team’s first “Head of Risk.” He
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