BitOasis signs Jonathan Rigg as CEO as Ola Doudin steps back from the role
The CoinDCX-owned MENA crypto exchange, with roughly $8.5B in cumulative spot volume, hands the desk to an ex-HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Fuze Finance executive.
DUBAI By Hannaan Kirmani
Jonathan Rigg CEO
Fuze Finance to BitOasis
The CoinDCX-owned MENA crypto exchange, with roughly $8.5B in cumulative spot volume, hands the desk to an ex-HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Fuze Finance executive.
DUBAI — BitOasis has appointed Jonathan Rigg as chief executive. Wamda reports the CoinDCX-owned exchange, which puts its cumulative spot volume at about $8.5B, is timing the move to a Bahrain broker-dealer licence and a derivatives launch. Co-founder Ola Doudin steps back from the CEO role. Rigg arrives from Fuze Finance, with earlier stints at HSBC and Deutsche Bank.
Transfer Window reading: SIGNED. A founder-to-operator handover at one of the region’s earliest crypto brands, and the operator comes from bank balance sheets rather than from crypto Twitter.
What it prices in: Gulf digital-asset platforms are being run for institutional scale now, not founder narrative. A derivatives product under a Bahrain licence needs a CEO who has sat inside a risk committee, and that is the hire.
Who wins: CoinDCX, which gets a regulated Gulf operator to run its regional asset; and Bahrain, which keeps collecting the licences that Dubai’s neighbours want. Watch what Doudin does next. Founders who step back in this market rarely stay on the bench.
Source: Wamda
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