FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that France based multinational financial services company Société Générale SA (EPA:GLE) has hired experienced digital assets executive Guillaume Chatain as Head of Sales for SocGen’s Forge crypto unit. He will be based in Paris for his new role at SocGen Forge.
Guillaume Chatain joins SocGen Forge after spending the past three years at leading crypto exchange operator Coinbase, where he was Head of Institutional Sales, EMEA & APAC out of London. He had also previously served as Strategic Advisor at blockchain protocol company Lithium Finance, and was a co-founder and CEO of FCA regulated digital broker-dealer ResonanceX. Guillaume served as a 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 assets regulation #MiCA, this appointment will be a key to support Societe Generale – FORGE in its next phase of expansion, widespread the adoption of our stablecoin EUR #CoinVertible (EURCV), carry out new RWA projects and strengthen distribution channels for tokenized securities such as bonds or SG issued structured products.”
Societe Generale FORGE is a fully integrated subsidiary of Societe Generale SA, regulated as an investment firm under EU MiFID2 regulation and as digital asset service provider under French law. FORGE provides issuers and investors, either Corporates or Financial Institutions, with end-to-end services to issue and manage digital-native financial products registered on the blockchain (Security Tokens).
