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Patrick Sells is going from banking cryptocurrency businesses shunned by most financial institutions to pitching crypto-related services to banks that may suddenly be warming to the sector.Sells, the former chief innovation officer of New York-based Quontic Bank, is joining New York Digital Investments Group (NYDIG) as its head of bank
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Trading app Robinhood has chosen Goldman Sachs to lead the way for an initial stock offering which could come in 2021 and value the trading app firm at more than $20 billion, people familiar with the matter told the N.Y. Post.The story is developing and will be updated as more
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The Centre Consortium, the Coinbase- and Circle-founded project that oversees the USDC stablecoin, has hired Wall Street veteran David Puth as its first CEO.Puth has held senior executive roles at JPMorgan and State Street, and most recently was the CEO of CLS, the foreign exchange settlement provider made up of
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Twitter has hired a new head of security four months after suffering one of the worst breaches in its 14-year history.As reported by Reuters on Monday, Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle “Mudge,” said he will take charge of security, site integrity and engineering on behalf
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Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs has appointed former U.S. Treasury and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) heavyweight Ari Redbord to help build the firm’s risk-based anti-money laundering (AML) programs for cryptocurrency and digital assets.Redbord joins TRM Labs as the company’s head of legal and government affairs. At Treasury, he served
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BitMEX, the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange recently charged by U.S. authorities for offering illegal trading services, has hired a compliance veteran. Source
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Cryptocurrency exchange and wallet platform Coinbase announced on Wednesday it has hired three new executives to serve as VPs for Product, Engineering, and Design & Research. Source
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Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance has hired banking and fintech veteran Teana Baker-Taylor to lead its expansion in the United Kingdom and European market.Baker-Taylor has over 20 years of experience in HSBC, Citi, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, and was the executive director of U.K.-headquartered blockchain and digital assets industry
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Blockchain startup Conflux has hired Eden Dhaliwal, the former head of crypto at Outlier Ventures, as a managing director to lead its expansion in North America. The Beijing-based firm is set to open an office in Toronto within two weeks. It is assembling a ten-person team to conduct research and seek
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A former Uber staffer has joined Binance to help the crypto exchange expand into new markets.Matt Shroder was announced as Binance's "VP of Global Expansion Operations" on Thursday. He was previously Uber's "Global Head of Product Operations."Shroder's new role will include helping the exchange scale its operations and services, especially
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