{"id":48528,"date":"2021-08-30T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48528"},"modified":"2025-09-02T02:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T23:38:33","slug":"former-digitalx-chief-named-binance-australia-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/former-digitalx-chief-named-binance-australia-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DigitalX chief named Binance Australia CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Travers, former CEO of DigitalX, the world&#8217;s first publicly listed blockchain company, has been appointed head of Binance&#8217;s Australian arm.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Binance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Binance<\/a> Australia today announced the appointment of Leigh Travers, former DigitalX CEO and Director, as Chief Executive Officer.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x88hshDJ4R\">https:\/\/t.co\/x88hshDJ4R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Binance (@binance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/binance\/status\/1432236310186668032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Travers worked at DigitalX for seven years. He also served on the board of the Blockchain Australia association for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Among his priorities as Binance Australia&#8217;s new CEO are building the exchange&#8217;s relationships with the country&#8217;s regulators and developing the company&#8217;s brand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abAs market leaders in digital assets, we bear responsibility for the growth of our industry, which implies priority in engaging with policymakers and regulators,\u00bb Travers said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Binance Australia was launched in July 2020. The previous head of the bitcoin exchange, Jeff Yu, left the company in April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, Binance US CEO Brian Brooks abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brian-brooks-resigns-as-binance-us-chief-executive-after-three-months\">left the position<\/a> three months after his appointment. Media <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-brian-brooks-leaves-binance-us-amid-clash-with-changpeng-zhao\">reported<\/a> on his conflict with Changpeng Zhao. The position of Brooks <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/binance-us-names-joshua-sroge-interim-ceo\">was temporarily filled by<\/a> Binance.US Chief Financial Officer Joshua Sroge.<\/p>\n<p>In late August, former head of regulation for the <span data-descr=\"Singapore Exchange\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SGX<\/span> Richard Teng <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/former-sgx-regulator-named-binance-singapore-ceo\">took the helm<\/a> of Binance Singapore. On the same day, journalist Colin Wu, citing &#8220;multiple sources&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/media-binance-plans-to-attract-investments-from-singapores-sovereign-wealth-funds-at-a-200-billion-valuation\">said<\/a> that the bitcoin exchange plans to attract funds from Singapore&#8217;s sovereign funds at a $200 billion valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\" noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DigitalX CEO Leigh Travers becomes Binance Australia CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48529,"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":[108,744],"class_list":["post-48528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-binance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528","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=48528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48530,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48528\/revisions\/48530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}