BitFury Adds Dr. James Newsome and Hernando de Soto to Advisory Board
BitFury, a company which provides blockchain infrastructure and transaction processing, has just announced that Dr. James Newsome has been added to the company’s advisory board. Dr. Newsome was the ex-Chairmen of the Commodity Future Trading Comission and the former CEO of NYMEX. Newsome has a very impressive record of expertise, even being nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate to be a Commissioner of the CFTC. Later on in his career, Dr. Newsome was moved up to a Chairman.
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BitFury has announced today that it has brought on two people with long careers to its board of directors, Dr. James Newsome and Hernando de Soto. Newsome is more of a regulatory heavyweight, having previously served under President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. He's also held the leading position at the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). De Soto is currently the president of Institute for Liberty and Democracy, a rather influential thinktank based in Peru. In both cases, BitFury seems to be aiming to add some of that hard-won knowledge one can....
BitFury has announced a pair of high-profile appointees to its advisory board and established a new body of technical advisors. New to BitFury's advisory board are former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Dr James Newsome, and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) Hernando de Soto. Dr Newsome is also the former CEO of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). An appointee of President Bill Clinton, he assisted the administration as a member of the President's Working Group for Financial Markets and led the CFTC's regulatory implementation of....
Now that financial regulators have started to step up their game in conducting oversight on the bitcoin industry, cryptocurrency companies have been adding former heads of financial regulation institutions to their advisory board. BitFury recently announced that the former chair of the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC), which is responsible for financial oversight in the US, will be joining their advisory board. Ex-CFTC head Dr. James Newsome will be joined by Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD), in the advisory board. Newsome....
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