Ex Microsoft Executive Joins JPMorgan’s Crypto-Related Payments Group

JPMorgan has hired Tahreem Kampton, a former Microsoft executive, as a senior payments executive within the bank’s payments group.

Kampton’s focus will be on the future of payments, including blockchain technology and the digital ecosystem, JPMorgan told CoinDesk.

In 2020, JPMorgan formed its Onyx unit, the world’s first offering from a global bank of a blockchain-based platform for wholesale payments transactions.

Last year, the bank was reported to have partnered with German industrial group Siemens to develop a blockchain-based system for payments.

JPMorgan was also the first bank into the metaverse – in February opening a lounge in Decentraland, a virtual world based on blockchain technology.

Kampton had been with Microsoft in various roles since 1998, according to his LinkedIn profile, rising to corporate treasurer and chief investment officer in January 2021.

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