Digital & Technology

Swissquote appoints new Head of Digital Assets

Swissquote, a leading provider of online financial services, has announced the appointment of Chris Thomas as its new Head of Digital Assets.

Thomas brings over two decades of experience to his new role, having started his career with Kepler Cheuvreux, a leading independent European financial services company. He was notably Fidelity Investments’ Head of European Innovation Ecosystem, and founded a number of firms including Infinite Alpha, an institutional crypto-asset custodian, TawiPay.com (now Monito), a comparison website for international money transfer services, and BlackHouse Private Equity.

In his new role, Thomas will be based in Switzerland, according to his LinkedIn, and will focus on expanding the institutional product range offered by Swissquote, namely those service being offered to private banks, family offices, IAMs, hedge funds and asset management firms.