Ripple CEO Suggests Next U.S. President Appoint a Fintech Advisor
Chris Larsen, chief executive of prominent Fintech startup Ripple has, in the lead-in to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, called for the next president to appoint a Fintech advisor. The polling stations for the upcoming U.S. elections are now weeks away from opening to appoint the next U.S. president. Until now, there has been little or no talk of Fintech innovation as policy talk and that isn’t likely to change in the coming weeks. With this in mind, Ripple executive Chris Larsen, the CEO of a startup that is arguably among the most prominent and certainly well-funded Fintech....
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With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup's chief executive is making the pitch for a national 'FinTech advisor'. Chris Larsen, CEO of Ripple, is calling for the next US president to appoint an advisor to help navigate the rapidly changing financial technology sector. In a new blog post, released today, Larsen argues that technology is redrawing the boundaries of finance – and that the US government needs to take action to keep American companies competitive. His words of caution come weeks before Americans head to the polls on 8th November, an....
Ripple Labs has named a former economic advisor to both former President Bill Clinton and current President Barack Obama to its board of directors. Gene Sperling served as director of the National Economic Council during the Clinton years. He was later made head of the economic advisory group under Obama after serving as an advisor to then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. He resigned from the directorship of the NEC in March of last year. In a statement, Sperling said that he looks forward to helping promote the Ripple network on a broader scale, noting: "I am excited to join Ripple....
The next president, Donald J. Trump, has a lot on his plate over the next four years. He is still three weeks away from officially becoming the President-elect, and then another month away from becoming the 45th President of the United States. He is receiving advice from every corner of the country, even the globe, and he has a lot of important decisions to make. Might one be creating a regulator for the emerging FinTech industry? Many industry leaders think so, or something along those lines. Trump receives a letter from an alliance of major tech firms. You may not have previously heard....
Image via Stanford University. San Francisco-based Ripple Labs, the startup behind the digital payment network Ripple, has appointed a former US State Department official as an advisor. Speaking about her new role, Anja Manuel said she was excited to build on Ripple's "impressive momentum" and looking forward to help it gain international traction. "Ripple is uniquely designed to lower both the costs and risks inherent to domestic and cross-border payment systems," she added. The former US State Department official said: "It has the potential to expand the global economy through increased....
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