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JPMorgan Hires Former Executive of Bankrupt Crypto Firm as Head of Digital Assets Regulatory Policy
21.10.2022
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has hired bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s former head of policy and regulatory affairs as its new head of digital assets regulatory policy. The move followed JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon telling U.S. Congress that crypto tokens, like bitcoin,...
Former Celsius Exec Hired By JPMorgan as Head of Crypto
20.10.2022
Aaron Iovine, a former executive at bankrupt crypto lender Celsius (CEL), has found a new job, joining U.S. investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co as the company’s executive director of digital assets regulatory policy.
Iovine previously served as the head of policy and regulatory affairs at Celsius...
JPMorgan Appoints Former Celsius Exec as Crypto Regulatory Policy Head: Report
19.10.2022
JPMorgan has appointed Aaron Iovine as its head of crypto regulatory policy, a newly created role, according to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday
Former Valour CEO Diana Biggs Joins Crypto Investment Firm 1kx as Partner
18.10.2022
Biggs joined the Alan Howard-backed 1kx after a two-year stint at Valour
Former Morgan Stanley Executive Says Crypto Will Change the Financial System – Future of Money?
18.10.2022
John Mack, a former CEO at the major US-headquartered investment bank Morgan Stanley, suggests that bitcoin (BTC) and crypto may become a part of the increasingly digitized world of trading – and many of us may live to see it.
Talking to CNBC about whether Wall Street would become digitized in...
Former Rooster Teeth Director Says She Was Underpaid And Called Slurs
17.10.2022
Iconic Halo-inspired web series Red vs. Blue put online content company Rooster Teeth on the map. Over a decade later it’s branched out into gaming Let’s Plays, reality TV shows, and even anime, but it’s also increasingly the subject of allegations over an internal frat boy culture and toxic...
Former Morgan Stanley CEO: Crypto Could Become ‘a Huge Way’ That Monetary Transactions Take Place
16.10.2022
Former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack has confirmed that he still owns bitcoin. While admitting that it is hard for him to understand why crypto has value, the former executive believes that 50 years from now, crypto could be “a huge way that monetary transactions take place.” Former...
Kraken Appoints Former Gemini UK Head as Its New UK Managing Director
14.10.2022
Crypto exchange Kraken has appointed Gemini's former UK chief Blair Halliday as its new UK managing director
Former CEO of Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Cashes Out $960K in CEL, USDC, Data Show
11.10.2022
Alex Mashinsky, who resigned as Celsius’ CEO on September 27, continues to move crypto out of wallets while withdrawals are suspended for customers
Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke Wins Nobel Prize in Economics ‘for Research on Banks and Financial Crises’
11.10.2022
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel Prize committee believes that he “significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises.” Many people, however, blame...
From first downs to crypto: A former NFL player gets into digital assets
6.10.2022
Lewis Neal went from playing professional football to trading various asset classes before he found out about Bitcoin
XRP price could rally by 50% based off comments from a former SEC director
3.10.2022
XRP investors are hopeful that a potential court victory against the SEC could send the altcoin price at least 50% higher
Celsius founder reportedly withdrew $10M before bankruptcy filing: FT
3.10.2022
The details of the withdrawal will reportedly be part of upcoming court filings, and it's possible the founder and former CEO of the crypto platform could be forced to pay it back
Crypto Investment-Product Firm 21.co Hires Former Goldman Alum as CTO
29.9.2022
David Josse led Goldman Sachs’ business intelligence and engineering efforts for the bank’s Marcus product
Tether's Former Auditor Fined $1M by SEC for Sloppy Accounting
26.9.2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed and settled charges last week against Friedman LLP, the former auditing firm of stablecoin issuer Tether, finding “serial violations of the federal securities laws” and numerous instances of “improper professional conduct,” according to...
A Former CFTC Chair Thinks There is No Need For New Laws on Stablecoins: Here’s What He Said
23.9.2022
Timothy Massad, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a current research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, argued that regulatory progress on stablecoins can be made immediately by utilizing the current laws....
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Binance Hires Big-Name Former Government Officials to Set Up Advisory Board
22.9.2022
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has rounded up prominent former government officials to act as a global board of advisers as the company negotiates the regulatory and political minefield the crypto industry finds itself in
Former Suicide Squad Game Writer Turns Down Award Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
20.9.2022
Kim MacAskill, a writer whose career includes work on upcoming Rocksteady game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, was recently nominated for a lifetime achievement award by the nonprofit organization Women in Games. However, she recently took to Twitter to announce that she cannot in good...
New Ethereum PoW Fork Gathers 60 Terahash From Well Known Pools, ETHW’s Price Shudders 39% in 24 Hours
16.9.2022
Following Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoW) roughly five different crypto assets were the main beneficiaries of Ethereum’s former hashrate. However, 24 hours after The Merge, anonymous developers launched an Ethereum PoW fork called ETHW and...
Fixed interest rates to create a DeFi 2.0 for institutions, says former bank exec
14.9.2022
In its latest seed funding Infinity Exchange investors allied behind the need for an increase in more secure institutional investment