Digital Asset Board Chairman to Be Acting CEO Digital Asset, a provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT), reports that Blythe Masters, the company’s CEO since 2015, will step down, for unspecified personal reasons. AG Gangadhar, who joined the company’s board of directors in April of this year, has been named board chairman and will serve… Read More >>
Former CFTC Commissioner Wetjen Joins the DTCC
Mark P. Wetjen, former commissioner and one-time acting chairman for the CFTC, is joining post-trade services and systems provider DTCC as a managing director to oversee global public policy functions and related business and legal activities, say DTCC officials. Wetjen resigned from the commission, effective August 28, and will begin his time with the DTCC… Read More >>
DTCC Takes Aim at the Roadblocks to Data Transparency
Increasing the transparency of the global financial system was one of the major goals of the G20 framework that followed the Great Recession and led to major financial services reform legislation like the U.S’s Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Reform Act. Even though there are many bright spots in this area — some industry observers see… Read More >>
