As part of its ongoing commitment to ecosystem expansion, popular blockchain company Ripple is distributing 1 billion XRP tokens to developers that build on its payment-focused ledger. At the moment, ...
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NATO chief to Putin ‘stop this war immediately,’ calls for diplomacy
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference ahead of the alliance’s Defence Ministers’ meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on March 15, 2022. Kenzo Tr...
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson is retiring, Howard Schultz returns as interim chief
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson is retiring after five years on the job. Howard Schultz will return as interim CEO, once again taking the helm of the company he elevated into a global brand while the comp...
Copper.co Has Onboarded Carly Nuzbach Lowery as Chief Legal Officer
Copper.co announced that it has onboarded Carly Nuzbach Lowery as its Chief Legal Officer, effective immediately. In an article shared with Finance Magnates, Carly Nuzbach Lowery, a legal representati...
FinCEN Chief Digital Currency Adviser Korver Departs for A16z as Head of Regulatory
The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set ...
Sophia Salim Joins ADSS as Chief Product & Innovation Officer
Abu Dhabi-based financial services provider, ADSS today announced that the company has appointed Sophia Salim, former Software Engineer at Microsoft, as Chief Product & Innovation Officer. In the ...
HOKK Finance Has Named Lawrence Hutson as Chief Technology Officer
HOKK Finance announced that it has named Lawrence Hutson as its new Chief Technology Officer. In a press release recently shared with Finance Magnates, Lawrence Hutson, a Co-Founder of Travelocity, ha...
Eventus Hires Josh Bosquez as Chief Technology Officer
Eventus Systems, a provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, has hired Josh Bosquez as the new Chief Technology Officer, the company announced on Tuesday. He has alre...
Bozoma Saint John Departs As Netflix Chief Marketing Officer
Bozoma Saint John, Chief Marketing Officer of Netflix attends the Netflix Limited Series “Colin in … [+] Black and White” Premiere at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on October 28, ...
Visa Recruits Frank Cooper III as Global Chief Marketing Officer
NYSE-listed Visa has recently announced the appointment of Frank Cooper III, former CMO at BuzzFeed, as its new Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In his new role, Cooper will drive Visa’s internat...
French Government Seizes Yacht Owned By Rosneft Chief Igor Sechin
Topline French officials on Thursday seized a yacht they believe is owned by Russian oil baron Igor Sechin, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, in the port of La Ciotat, a move that comes just a day after...
Citadel Chief Ken Griffin Admits He Was Wrong About BTC
Billionaire hedge fund manager and one of Bitcoin’s harshest and most vocal critics, Ken Griffin, seems to have had a change of heart, admitting that he was wrong about the crypto space and Bitcoin. ...
tZERO Promotes Alan Konevsky to VP and Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer
tZERO announced that it has promoted Alan Konevsky as executive VP and Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer, effective from March 2022. In a recent press release shared with Finance Magnates, A...
New Change FX Positions James Anderson as Its New Chief Technology Officer
New Change FX announced that it has placed James Anderson as its new Chief Technology Officer, effective from February 2022. According to a press release shared with Finance Magnates, James Anderson, ...
Russian Central Bank Chief Says Alternative to SWIFT Already In Place
Key Takeaways Russia’s central bank governor has said the its global payments will continue to function despite the SWIFT ban. The central bank chief said Russia’s SPFS, an internally-deve...
PayNet Secures Farhan Ahmad as Its New Group Chief Executive Officer
Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet) announced it has secured Farhan Ahmad as its new Group Chief Executive Officer, effective from 12 April 2022. In a recent press release shared with Finance Magnates,...
HYCM chief analyst on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: ‘financial costs tend to be limited’
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw global markets plummet, with investors fleeing into safe-haven assets to send gold to a new yearly high. As stocks across Europe fell, Russia’s benchmark index MOEX tu...
CFI Financial Names Stelios Thrasyvoulou as Chief Technology Officer
CFI Financial Group, a forex Forex Foreign exchange or forex is the act of converting one nation’s currency into another nation’s currency (that possesses a different currency); for example, the c...
Crypto Lending Firm Celsius Appoints Rod Bolger as Chief Financial Officer
Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency loan company headquartered in London, announced the appointment of Rod Bolger as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) today. In his new role, Bolger will b...
ECB Chief Lagarde Says Digital Euro Will Not Replace Cash — But Could Offer Convenient, Cost-Free Means of Payment – Coinotizia
The president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, says that a digital euro will not replace cash but would complement it. “A digital euro would give you an additional choice about h...
CBDCs Have Advantages Over ‘Unbacked Crypto Assets’ And Stablecoins, According To The IMF’s Chief Economist
Privacy concerns about China’s digital yuan, which Georgieva highlighted as one of six central banks on the border of CBDC development in her speech, were not addressed. For starters, CBDCs aren’t a o...
Tickmill Promotes Carla Nemr to Chief Business Development Officer
Tickmill has promoted Carla Nemr as the broker’s new Chief Business Development Officer that already came into effect. She was previously holding the role of Head of Global Business Development. Nemr ...
Binance.US Appoints Tammy Weinrib as Chief Compliance Officer
Binance.US, the American affiliate of the global crypto exchange Exchange An exchange is known as a marketplace that supports the trading of derivatives, commodities, securities, and other financi...
Revolut Names Ibrahim Dusi as Chief Risk Officer for Americas
Revolut, one of the fastest-growing financial apps with more than 18 million users worldwide, recently announced the expansion of its team with the appointment of Ibrahim Dusi, former Vice President o...
FAA chief Steve Dickson announces resignation midway through term
Stephen Dickson, administrator of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nominee, speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation confirmation hearing in Washington D.C., May 15, 2019. St...
South Korean Crypto Exchange Chief Gets 22 Years in Prison For $1.7B Fraud
The seven executive employees of the South Korean V Global exchange were found guilty on Friday for the crypto fraud of 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion), authorities sentenced them to jail with hefty fin...
US Senate Banking Chief Criticizes Super Bowl Crypto Ads, Claims ‘Big Crypto Companies Are Desperate’ – Bitcoin News
The United States senator from Ohio and Senate Banking Committee chief Sherrod Brown is not a fan of cryptocurrencies. This week during Tuesday’s stablecoin hearing, Brown criticized all the cryptocur...
SoFi Chief Says “We’re Not Left Behind” In Regards To Blockchain Technology
Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi Technologies, talked about the risks associated with cryptocurrency before revealing that he holds some digital assets. In an interview with CNBC, Noto explained; We’re inves...
CNN Marketing Chief Allison Gollust Resigns As Probe Accuses Her, Jeff Zucker And Chris Cuomo Of Company Policy Violations
Topline CNN’s Chief Marketing Officer Allison Gollust has resigned from the company after an internal investigation found she had violated company policies by failing to disclose a workplace relations...