Exclusive FNG… French multinational financial services company Société Générale SA (EPA:GLE) has hired digital asset veteran Guillaume Chatain as head of sales for SocGen’s crypto unit Forge, FNG has learned. He will be based in Paris for his new role at SocGen Forge.
Guillaume Chatain joins SocGen Forge after spending the last three years at leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, where he was Head of Institutional Sales, EMEA & APAC out of London. He also previously served as a Strategic Advisor to blockchain protocol firm Lithium Finance and was co-founder and CEO of FCA-regulated digital broker-dealer ResonanceX. Guillaume served as Managing Director at JP Morgan Asset Management in London and Hong Kong from 2007-2017. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
A SocGen Forge spokesperson said in a statement,
“Ahead of the upcoming European digital asset regulation #MiCA, this appointment will be key to support Societe Generale – FORGE in its next phase of expansion, the widespread adoption of the stablecoin EUR #CoinVertible (EURCV), the realization of new projects RWA and Strengthen distribution channels for discretionary securities such as bonds or structured products issued SG’.
Societe Generale FORGE is a fully integrated subsidiary of Societe Generale SA, which is regulated as an investment firm under the EU MiFID2 regulation and as a digital asset service provider under French law. FORGE provides issuers and investors, whether Companies or Financial Institutions, with end-to-end services for the issuance and management of digital native financial products registered on the blockchain (Security Tokens).