Is UBS Bleeding Blockchain Talent?
Well, it has been a trend of late that banks have jumped on the Blockchain bandwagon, but there is another trend emerging which is at the top of Blockchain developers quitting banks. A while ago we reported how Will Martino and Stuart Popejoy have left JP Morgan’s Blockchain development team. It has now emerged that Alex Batlin of UBS is also leaving. Alex is a Senior Innovation Manager and runs UBS’s FinTech Innovation Lab based in London, UK’s Level39 accelerator. He is also the lead of UBS’s Crypto 2.0 Pathfinder research looking into Blockchains and their impact on business models.....
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