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Despite CEO Calling Bitcoin a ‘decentralized Ponzi scheme’ JPMorgan Goes Crypto

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Ridgewood NJ, After JPMorgan Chase & Co., CEO Jamie Dimon slammed ‘dangerous’ bitcoin as ‘decentralized Ponzi scheme’. The No. 1 U.S. bank and a charter member of Wall Street’s financial establishment, has gone DeFi.  . JPMorgan’s Onyx unit recently executed live foreign exchange swaps of tokenized Japanese Yen and Singapore Dollars. The swaps were made as part of Project Guardian, an initiative backed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore that aims to explore DeFi applications in wholesale funding markets. Project Guardian is currently deployed on Polygon, but it will eventually be rolled out to other blockchain networks. It uses a modified version of Aave Arc.

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Columbia Bank Hires Justin Jennings, New Executive Vice President, Operations Officer

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Justin Jennings, the new Executive Vice President,  Operations Officer of Columbia Bank. Image  Courtesy of Columbia Bank.

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Fair Lawn  NJ , Columbia Bank is pleased to welcome Justin Jennings, the new Executive  Vice President, Operations Officer, effective immediately. Jennings, who replaces Brian Murphy upon his retirement  in April 2022, is responsible for the Operations division including Card Services, Deposit Operations, Loan Servicing  and the Customer Service Center.

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