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Swiss crypto asset manager 21Shares has hired Russell Barlow of ABRDN as CEO and his colleague Duncan Moir as president. ABRDN is one of the largest asset managers in the UK with an AUM close to $650 billion. Barlow previously served as global head of alternative and multi-asset investments at abrdn, managing over $200 billion in assets. Moir led the asset manager's crypto and blockchain strategy. In addition, Edel Bashir will serve as chief operating officer of 21Shares, having previously serve...
Crypto custodian BitGo has announced that it has hired former Silvergate Bank president Ben Reynolds as managing director and head of U.S. dollar standards. Ben will oversee the development of BitGo's U.S. dollar-standard stablecoin USDS, which will be launched next year.
Cryptocurrency custodian BitGo announced on Friday that it has hired former Silvergate Bank governor Ben Reynolds to oversee the development of its USD Standard stablecoin. BitGo plans to launch USD Standard early next year.
MicroStrategy Inc. has hired banks to help it buy more bitcoin by selling new shares and raising $42 billion in fixed income.
OpenAI has hired former White House official Aaron Chatterji as its chief economist.
OpenAI has hired Scott Schools, a former Uber executive, as its first chief compliance officer to support the start-up's efforts to adapt to emerging global regulations around artificial intelligence. Mr. Scuse, who most recently served as chief ethics and compliance officer for Uber, previously served as deputy attorney general for the Department of Justice. The hiring comes as regulators on both sides of the Atlantic weigh policy around OpenAI and other companies' state-of-the-art artificial i...
On September 16th, BlackRock is re-hiring Mike Pyle, who was a senior aide to Harris and also served as an executive at the company. In a memo sent to employees on Monday, BlackRock said Pyle had been informally providing economic advice to Harris's presidential campaign, and he would advise investors on geopolitical and economic risks as deputy head of a unit about $3.20 trillion in size, which is part of BlackRock's overall $10.60 trillion business. (Bloomberg)
Binance announced it had hired Grant Thornton, a UK accounting firm, to advise the exchange on accounting and taxation. The firm will also help Binance prepare for audits, but will not act as an auditor for the exchange. Binance previously worked with Mazars, an audit firm that suspended its work with the exchange in December 2022. Grant Thornton previously worked with stablecoin issuer Circle.
Musk has hired a U.S. Republican staffer with expertise in field organizing to help guide his political work, a move that suggests Musk is preparing to become more involved in Republican politics.
OpenAI has hired Irina Kaufman, a former Meta Platforms executive, to lead the strategic plan. Reporting directly to Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer (CTO), Kofman will initially focus on security and preparation. Kofman is understood to have worked at Zuckerberg's Meta for five years and most recently served as senior director of generative AI product management.
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