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Regulated HK Crypto Exchange OSL Hires 6 Senior Staff
Two of the hires, Joe Zhou and Arion Ho, join OSL from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 1:12 p.m. Published Jun 17, 2021, 7:38 a.m.
OSL, Hong Kong’s first licensed cryptocurrency exchange, has hired six senior staff members, including two from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
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Joe Zhou and Arion Ho join OSL as director of business development and head of exchange operations in the U.K. respectively, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk on Thursday.
Zhou served as senior vice president of global client development at the HKEX. Ho was a senior vice president leading night-time exchange operations.
The other people joining OSL are Colm Furlong, head of Software as a Service; James Cunningham, principal engineer in the U.K.; George Carr, director of U.K. infrastructure and operations; and Fergus MacDermot, director of service reliability.
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The hires form part of OSL and parent company BC Technology Group's global expansion following its partnership with Standard Chartered to launch a digital asset brokerage and exchange for the European and U.K. markets.
OSL became Hong Kong's first regulated crypto exchange when it received a license from the Securities and Futures Commission in August 2020. Trading on the platform began in March.
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