A senior executive from Ripple has been appointed to lead Binance.US, the US arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, which will be specifically targeted to American traders.
According to an announcement on Tuesday, Catherine Coley, the former head of XRP Institutional Liquidity will join the fledgling US exchange as CEO and will manage its operations and oversee the platform’s technology development going forward.
Catherine recently left Ripple after a two-year term with the San Francisco-based crypto startup, where she worked with custody agents, exchanges, market makers, fund managers, OTC desks, and institutional investors. She joins the influential crypto exchange with an extensive background in traditional financial institutions, having served as a Foreign Exchange Advisor at Silicon Valley Bank.
Prior to that, Catherine had worked at Morgan Stanley’s FX business for over five years across several regions, including Europe and Hong Kong. During this tenure, she built a client pipeline of Asia-focused FX business among European hedge fund clients and asset managers, her Linkedin shows.
Binance opens dedicated US platform
Coley’s appointment comes at a time when the Malta-based trading platform is moving toward a formal launch in the US, just as the Changpeng Zhao-led firm announced it is closing off all US states from trading on Binance.com.
The move would see Binance partnering with BAM Trading Services, a FinCEN-registered company to roll out “Binance US,” exclusively for customers based in the United States. Binance will license its matching engine and wallet technologies to its US partner which would handle operations into compliance with local regulations.
