Wall Street Takeover? Blythe Masters Gobbling Up Block Chain Companies Left and Right
Blythe Masters, the Wall Street banker famous for being called "the woman who invented financial weapons of mass destruction" in regards to credit default swaps, a key misuse of which contributed greatly to the financial meltdown at the end of the last decade, has made yet another move in the cryptocurrency space. The firm she heads, Digital Asset Holdings, has acquired two start-ups in the space the firm aims to reign in: HyperLedger and Bits of Proof. HyperLedger may seem familiar, as it has made headline after headline. The "distributed asset ledger" company did not focus solely on....
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27 years on Wall Street to Bitcoin. An increasingly common evolution for former Wall Street executives. Blythe Masters was one of the most publicized to leave Wall Street to explore digital currency and blockchain technology. If her history at JP Morgan is any sign, she might be exactly the right person to fight in favor of blockchain technology. In a recent blog post at Ounce.me called, “Blythe, Master Of The Financial-Verse,” the history of Blythe Masters is detailed. As she built JP Morgan’s commodities arm, she once said her division’s competitors are “scared shitless of us” and said....
Blythe Masters. Digital Asset Holdings' CEO Blythe Masters has reportedly turned down an offer for a top management position at Barclays to stick with her blockchain technology startup. Blythe Masters, CEO of New York-based Digital Asset has turned down the chance to "run" Barclays' investment banking division and chose to stay with her current blockchain-based startup Digital Holdings. Masters is among the most prominent figures on Wall Street and is known as one of the creators of the credit derivatives market. She left JP Morgan after 27 years with the bank and joined Digital Asset....
The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC), a digital currency advocacy group, has appointed former Wall Street executive Blythe Masters to its board of advisors. Masters who joined Digital Asset Holdings - a startup that uses blockchain tech to enhance the settlement of traditional and digital assets - as CEO in March spoke about her new advisory role. She said:
Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan executive who helped pioneer credit derivatives in the 1990s, has re-emerged as chief executive of Digital Asset Holdings. The Digital Asset Holdings is a venue for buyers and sellers of financial assets to meet and transact, switching currencies into bitcoin in order to cut the cost and time of settlement and make use of the decentralised Blockchain. Blythe Masters sits on the Top of blockchain technology startup Digital Asset Holdings, where she became the CEO in March. She spent 27 years at JPMorgan Chase, where she held some leadership positions,....
Blythe Masters, the Wall Street executive who became the youngest managing director of J.P. Morgan, likes the blockchain. However, the Chief Executive Officer of the startup Digital Asset Holdings doesn’t pay much attention to Bitcoin. The former credit derivative product manager told Bloomberg Markets Most Influential Summit, “I never became particularly enamored with cryptocurrency.” Masters gained a lot of her experience with over two decades with J.P. Morgan — being the youngest women hired for her status at age 28. Earlier in 2015, she told a crowd at the Exponential Finance....