{"id":36889,"date":"2021-02-23T14:04:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36889"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:38:51","slug":"fed-hires-former-td-ameritrade-head-of-digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/fed-hires-former-td-ameritrade-head-of-digital-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed hires former TD Ameritrade head of digital assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former top executive of the online broker TD Ameritrade, Sunayna Tuteja, has been appointed chief innovation officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sunayna Tuteja as the Federal Reserve System\u2019s chief <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/innovation?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#innovation<\/a> officer! She will lead efforts to identify, research, enable and advocate for new technologies while fostering a culture of experimentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ltuh8JI4o\">https:\/\/t.co\/7ltuh8JI4o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ON4pvek0xj\">pic.twitter.com\/ON4pvek0xj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richmond Fed (@RichmondFed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichmondFed\/status\/1363943193788694529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, Tuteja will research, implement and promote new technologies. According to information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sunaynatuteja\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>, she took the role in February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is one of the 12 Federal Reserve banks. It covers the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>At TD Ameritrade, Sunayna Tuteja led the Strategic Partnerships and Digital Assets divisions at various times, and also served as managing director.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the online broker invested an undisclosed amount in the regulated derivatives exchange ErisX to launch physically delivered futures on Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and Litecoin.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, TD Ameritrade joined an alliance to collaborate with startups in the decentralized finance sector.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, the Fed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fed-seeks-manager-to-research-stablecoins-and-cbdcs\">opened a vacancy<\/a> for a manager to study stablecoins. This followed the agency&#8217;s chairman Jerome Powell designating their regulation as a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/jerome-powell-says-regulating-stablecoins-is-a-fed-priority\">priority task<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former top executive of TD Ameritrade Sunayna Tuteja has been appointed chief innovation officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1249,2109,26],"class_list":["post-36889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-federal-reserve-system","tag-td-ameritrade","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36891,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36889\/revisions\/36891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}