Banking is ‘slowly dying out’ – former Tradefi executive on reasons for getting involved in crypto

despite a lot Due to regulatory action in the United States and the ongoing crypto winter, the former Tradefy executive, who is now in crypto, said he has no desire to return to his old banking life.

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Wade told Cointelegraph that the crypto industry offers him more freedom to take innovative risks than the banking sector.

“It is becoming increasingly clear that Web3 financial rails are the future – it is hard to innovate internally, so those of us with a fire in our belly are jumping ship.”

Wade believes that crypto will see widespread adoption in the coming years, adding that “like ESG, it will become mainstream in 10 years or so.”

She added that she went into the crypto industry “to create something great (…) that no bank can do.”

Similarly, Guy Dickinson, CEO of carbon trading platform BetaCarbon, walked away from a lucrative executive banking role in 2022 as former treasurer of HSBC Australia.

“I moved into the Web3 space because carbon credits and environmental markets were not easily accessible, and Web3 provided that market access,” he said.

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For Dickinson, the motivation behind the move was driven not by money, but by a search for personal fulfillment.

“It is not more profitable; However, it is far more satisfying,” he said, adding that jobs in traditional finance are not as secure as they used to be:

“The banking industry is slowly dying. Continued downsizing and technical skills put many professional service roles at risk. In the present scenario a senior banking officer always has a target.

Simon Dixon, CEO of investment platform BnkToTheFuture, told Cointelegraph that he actually attempted to form a traditional bank in 2011 before building a “regulated crypto securities business.”

Dixon said that when he researched creating a traditional bank, he learned that it was a really big risk:

“When we applied for the license, the regulators told us that we would have to store our money in another fractional reserve bank and that it would only be profitable if we leveraged customer funds like all banks.”

Later that year, Dixon discovered bitcoin (BTC) and became interested in the fact that “funds are owned in self-custody, spent peer-to-peer and backed by full reserve math and code.”

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Many TradeFi executives have been slowly turning to crypto for some time now.

according to fortune reports Published In July 2022, two JP Morgan executives, Eric Wragg and Puja Samuel, resigned to pursue careers in the crypto industry.

Wragg, previously a managing director at JP Morgan, decided to join Algorand (ALGO) as head of business development and capital markets.

Samuel, who served as head of ideology and digitization at JP Morgan, has taken up the position as head of corporate development at Digital Currency Group.

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