Johannes Schmitt
Johannes serves as Director of Banking and Payments for Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. In this role, he oversees global banking and payments strategy and operations. Johannes was employee number 10 at Kraken. In his 7+ years at Kraken, he has rotated throughout the company working in areas of content development, client services and account management. Prior to this role, Johannes completed a PhD in philosophy at the University of Southern California and was a lecturer and project coordinator at the University of Konstanz.
Kraken
Based in San Francisco, Kraken is the world’s largest global digital asset exchange based on euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients trade more than 50 digital assets and 7 different fiat currencies, including EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, JPY, CHF and AUD. Kraken was founded in 2011 and is the first digital asset exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal and one of the first to offer spot trading with margin, regulated derivatives and index services. Kraken is trusted by more than 5 million traders, institutions and authorities around the world.
