Top Talent from Traditional Finance Is Shifting to Crypto

Despite the BTC sell-off and a significant drop in total value locked (TVL), talent is migrating from traditional finance to the crypto space. Among the most notable names that are Katia Babbar and William McGhee.

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Babbar is the former Managing Director as well as Head of Electronic FX trading at Lloys Bank (London). McGhee was the senior quantitative researcher at Citadel Europe. He was also the Global Head of Quantitative Analytics and Global Head of Machine Learning for electronic trading at NatWest Markets.

Both executives launched a risk management system for cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) called Immersive Finance.

Andrei Serjantov, an executive that served BNP Paribas for the past 16 years left the group to join Nym (crypto startup) as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Serjantov was the Head of Electronic Credit Trading and Head of Flow Credit Quantitative Research at BNP Paribas.

Even the World Economic Forum (WEF) is seeking talent to 'lead the project management of blockchain and digital assets workstreams'.

“As part of the C4IR, the Blockchain & Digital Assets platform focuses on these and related topics, including crypto, CBDCs, stablecoins and Web 3.0, among others.”