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An executive formerly working on Apple's payments products has joined Banco Santander.Trish Burgess joins the Spain-based multinational as the new global head of Peer-to-Peer Payments and will direct its expansion of digital payments services globally, according to an announcement Thursday.Burgess worked at Apple for 4.5 years, her LinkedIn profile indicates,
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Crypto derivatives platform ErisX has added a capital markets risk management expert to its C-suite, the company announced Thursday. Vindhu Singh is the firm’s first chief risk officer and will report to Head of Eris Clearing Liz James. Singh will set the risk management priorities for the firm’s clearinghouse business roadmap
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Coinbase has hired a former vice president of product at Google to be its chief product officer. Surojit Chatterjee spent 11 years at Google, where he worked on payments, adtech and commerce. He most recently led the continuing development of Google Shopping, a service available in more than 90 countries. Prior
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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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In a letter sent to Multicoin’s investors last month, the firm said, "a significant amount of information travels through word of mouth, WeChat groups, and Mandarin-only social media properties." As such, the letter said, Mable’s job will be to close the information gap. Source
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Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has hired Charles Guillemet as chief technology officer (CTO) where he will oversee the company’s security operations.In a press release shared with CryptoX on Dec. 5, Ledger said that Guillemet has been in charge of the company's security assessments for Ledger’s products ever since he
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Gemini, the top global cryptocurrency exchange per CryptoCompare’s latest Exchange Benchmark, hired a former senior executive from United Kingdom-based Starling Bank.Julian Sawyer, a former CEO and co-founder at Starling, will now lead Gemini Europe — the European affiliate of Gemini Trust Company — as the managing director of the
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In the past 18 months, Gemini has added several senior leaders to its ranks. The former global head of financial crimes at Morgan Stanley, Noah Perlman, joined Gemini as its chief compliance officer; its chief security officer, David Damato, came from cybersecurity firm Tanium; its new general counsel, Sydney Schaub,
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Social media giant Facebook has hired two more lobbyists to aid the release of its forthcoming Libra stablecoin.As Bloomberg reported on Sept. 5, lobbying disclosures filed earlier this week revealed that William Hollier, the president of legislative and regulatory counseling firm Hollier Associates LLC, began lobbying for Facebook on
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Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange and custody founded by the Winklevoss twins, has hired cybersecurity expert David Damato as its new chief security officer (CSO). Damato was previously the CSO of cybersecurity firm Tanium. Tyler Winklevoss announced the new hire in an official blog post on Aug. 19. According to the
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