USDC Stablecoin Issuer Centre Hires Wall Street Veteran David Puth as CEO

The company behind USDC has added a new face that could help further institutional adoption. Centre Consortium, the company behind USD Coin, has hired former State Street and JPMorgan executive David Puth as its new chief executive officer, or CEO. Centre made the announcement early Tuesday in a Medium post that praised Puth for his leadership credentials. The new hire will help Centre expand its global partnerships across the fintech, crypto, and the traditional financial services industry. Puth said that he is excited to be joining Centre “at this critical time in the industry,” adding:....

Centre, the consortium created by Circle and Coinbase around USD coin (USDC), has assembled a team of new executives to power its expansion overseas. The new team, comprising six new executives assembled by David Puth, CEO of Centre, will look to support new partners and add new alliances to keep the company growing in the future. One of the objectives of the new ensemble will be to create an interoperable global network of stablecoins. Centre Consortium Expands Team to Create Stablecoin Network Centre, the standards and governance organization for USD coin (USDC), reported it....

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Support for withdrawals comes shortly after Crypto.com launched support for USDC deposits, thanks to a new partnership with USDC issuer Circle. The digital asset exchange platform Crypto.com has now enabled withdrawals of USD Coin (USDC), meaning that users can withdraw the stablecoin and receive U.S. dollars at a one-to-one ratio directly to their bank account.The announcement comes just over a month after the platform launched support for USDC deposits, following a new partnership with the stablecoin’s issuer, Circle. The partnership enabled Crypto.com users to transfer fiat currency....

Centre, the consortium behind the issuance of USD Coin (USDC), announced it will launch the popular asset on 10 more blockchains. This would expand the reach of USDC to other environments and could make it more popular as a commercial and staking currency. While Centre made the announcement only recently, USDC surprisingly launched on Tron today. Centre Launches Multichain USDC Initiative Centre, the consortium behind USDC, the second biggest stablecoin by market share, announced an initiative to take the coin to ten new blockchains. The objective of this plan is to expand the market reach....