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| Published On Feb 9, 2022 2:02 am CET | By Peter Siu

PayPal Brings Leading Experts Together in Advisory Council on Crypto & Blockchain

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Global payments giant PayPal has put together a team of industry experts to serve as advisors on crypto, blockchain and digital currencies.

PayPal made the announcement on Tuesday where it said it had “established a cross-disciplinary advisory council on Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies (BCDC) comprised of some of the world’s leading experts in cryptography, distributed technology, regulation, economics, and capital markets.”

Fortress Investment Group co-CEO Peter Briger, Georgetown University Law Center professor Chris Brummer, Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shafi Goldwasser, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Timothy Massad, MIT Sloan School of Management finance professor Antoinette Schoar, and MIT Digital Currency Initiative director Neha Narula will all be joining the PayPal initiative. All six carry years of experience from the crypto and blockchain space from a business or regulatory perspective.

Jose Fernandez da Ponte, PayPal’s senior vice president and general manager for Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies, said:

“We believe it is crucial to engage with the world’s best leaders to better understand the industry’s most compelling opportunities and complex challenges.”

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