Recalibrating Cryptocurrency For the Future: A Conversation with Marcus Hughes, The Former Chief Risk Officer of BitMEX

Given the recent controversies that made some question its credibility, how would the crypto industry start moving forward? In this second episode of our podcast series with crypto and digital assets industry leaders, Heidrick and Struggles' Partner Guy Shaul from London and Sarah Sliva from our New York office speak with Marcus Hughes, the former Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of BitMex. BitMex is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, founded in 2014 and owned by HDR Global Trading Limited. Prior to BitMex, Marcus was the Managing Director of Europe and the General Counsel at Coinbase, where he played a leading role in building and scaling the business and establishing and developing relationships with regulators worldwide. Today, Marcus talks about the perception problems in the crypto and digital assets industry, what regulators are looking for, and how the regulators' engagement and interest have changed over the years. He also shares what the crypto industry needs to do to put its recent controversies behind it, the future of cryptocurrency and digital assets, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.