Besides heading HSBC’s legal team for the past eight years, Stuart Levey was also a US under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence in the mid-2000s and was credited with helping to bring Iran to the negotiating table on nuclear power, according to Financial Times.
He will start his new job in July 2020, based in Washington DC, the Libra Association announced on May 6, 2020. A key challenge he will face will be convincing regulators and politicians that the digital currency project will not support drug dealers and money launderers.
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