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Seamus Rocca, CEO of Xapo Bank, ​Qualified Chartered Accountant

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Seamus Rocca is a financial expert and corporate leader with over two decades of experience working in the financial service sector. He is now the CEO of Xapo Bank and has worked as a Chartered Accountant in international companies, including Arthur Andersen, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Group, and Standard Chartered Bank, at senior executive levels with a focus on finance, treasury, and emerging markets.

Seamus Rocca Interview Questions

1. Please start by telling us a little bit about your background?
2. Tell us something about Gibraltar, its culture, geography, and some important facts about it.
3. Please tell us about Xapo bank: what it does and how it works.
4. Centralisation versus decentralisation models of banking and finances.
What are your views on the current gap between the conventional banking methods and the crypto scenario. As a banking professional, how do you think we can bridge this gap?
5. Could you please highlight some of the key features of Xapo Bank
6. Please tell us about Xapo’s membership.
7. Please share your Insights on current top news in the crypto world: crypto winter, FTX, and Financial Market crash in the US.
8. What advice would you give to our audience who are tackling these waves?

Seamus Rocca Biography

Seamus is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and he studied accounting and finance at the University of Leeds. He also attended Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, where he studied executive leadership. He is also a member of ICAEW, a world-leading professional membership organisation that trains, develops and supports over 150,000 chartered accountants worldwide.

Seamus has a close working relationship with the UK Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) and was a certified Material Risk Taker under the UK PRA rules in his capacity as the Head of Liquidity at Standard Chartered Bank.

Seamus has worked at Xapo Bank for over five years, taking on the role of CEO in 2021, where he is responsible for overseeing the operations and strategic direction of the bank.

Seamus has played a critical role in making Xapo the first crypto company in the world to obtain a banking licence. Xapo Bank is a private bank headquartered in Gibraltar, which operates globally and is licensed as a virtual asset currency provider by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.

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