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Libra Hires HSBC Veteran Ian Jenkins as CFO, Risk Chief of Digital Payments Unit
Ian Jenkins joins fellow HSBC alum James Emmet, now the stablecoin group's CEO.
The Libra Association, the organization developing the Facebook-backed cryptocurrency project libra, on Thursday hired longtime banking executive Ian Jenkins to lead the stablecoin group's finance and risk operations.
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- Jenkins will become chief financial officer and chief risk officer for Libra Networks, the group's digital payments subsidiary.
- Jenkins previously led international banking giant HSBC's business finance group. He has worked in various banking and finance roles since at least 1990.
- His hiring adds another HSBC name to Libra's C-suite. The former CEO of the international banking giant, James Emmet, took the reins on Oct. 1.
Danny Nelson
Danny is CoinDesk's managing editor for Data & Tokens. He formerly ran investigations for the Tufts Daily. At CoinDesk, his beats include (but are not limited to): federal policy, regulation, securities law, exchanges, the Solana ecosystem, smart money doing dumb things, dumb money doing smart things and tungsten cubes. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL tokens, as well as the LinksDAO NFT.
