Buford Scott
Chief Financial Officer
Buford Scott is Chief Financial Officer of Zodia Markets, where he leads the finance function including treasury, funding, financial reporting, financial planning, budgeting, financial control, and product control across all Zodia Markets entities.
Prior to Zodia Markets, Buford acted as financial advisor and CFO to several businesses, and was most recently CFO of
Katana Labs, a fintech that was a spinoff of ING Bank. Buford’s 30+ years of financial services experience began in derivatives trading at top-tier banks, including JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Goldman Sachs. Buford spent 10 years as Managing Director at Standard Chartered Bank, majority shareholder of Zodia Markets, and also served on the board of the Standard Chartered Bank Pension Fund.
Related articles
-
Zodia Markets goes live on Talos to expand access to institutional liquidity
In the latest round of milestone updates, we are thrilled to announce that Zodia Markets has officially gone live on the Talos platform. In an evolving digital asset landscape, institutional traders require more than just access, they require speed, reliability, and sophisticated credit solutions. By integrating with Talos, a premier provider of institutional trading technology,…
-
N3XT and Zodia Markets Partner to Enable 24/7 Instant USD Payments Across Zodia’s Institutional Digital Asset Ecosystem
N3XT, the blockchain-powered narrow bank built for instant, programmable B2B payments, and Zodia Markets, the digital asset platform enabling institutional capital through stablecoins, today announced a partnership to deliver real-time U.S. dollar settlement across Zodia Markets’ client base. The collaboration tackles a core friction in digital asset markets, where fragmented banking access and restricted operating…
-
BCB Group and Zodia Markets launch instant settlement and institutional liquidity via BLINC Network integration
BCB Group and Zodia Markets today announced the successful go-live of Zodia Market’s integration onto BCB’s BLINC Network. BLINC (The BCB Liquidity Interchange Network Consortium) is BCB Group’s proprietary instant payments network, offering instant, reliable, 24/7/365 and limitless settlement for the BCB client ecosystem, which includes exchanges, industry-leading liquidity, FX providers, stablecoin issuers, traders, funds…
-
Zodia Markets partners with Currency.com to deliver institutional-grade deep liquidity
Zodia Markets, the institutional-grade digital asset marketplace backed by Standard Chartered and OSL Group, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with global digital finance provider, Currency.com. Under this collaboration, Zodia Markets will provide Currency.com with deep liquidity and robust execution services, enabling the platform to scale its support for large volume, high notional transactions.…
Latest
-
BlackRock ‘leading tokenisation of real-world assets on blockchains’
Brian McGleenon 14 June 2024·4-min read BlackRock (BLK) is leading the charge in the mass tokenisation of real-world assets on blockchains, according to Zodia Markets Ireland chair Michael Walsh.
-
Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Markets to Buy Elwood Trading Desk
The deal will strengthen Zodia Markets’ over-the-counter business while allowing Elwood to conentrate on its software-as-a-service activities.
-
SEC likely to approve spot Ethereum ETFs on May 23: Standard Chartered Bank
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to follow the strategy employed in approving spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds for spot Ethereum ETFs, starting with rejections and ultimately granting approval on the initial final deadline on May 23, according to Standard Chartered Bank.
