FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that longtime eToro UK Managing Director Iqbal Gandham has joined Paris based digital asset custody and security technology firm Ledger. At Ledger Mr. Gandham will be the company’s VP Transactions and Payments, responsible for integrating services directly into the company’s crypto wallet Ledger Live.

FNG had exclusively reported back in September that Iqbal Gandham was leaving eToro, to act as a non-executive advisor for London-based cryptocurrency trading platform startup CoinBurp.

Iqbal Gandham served as the CEO, in the UK, for Retail FX and CFD broker eToro from 2016 until departing last year. He was also a director of the company’s FCA licensed subsidiary eToro (UK) Limited. He looked after, among other things, the launch of eToro’s cryptocurrency trading operations. eToro is fairly well advanced in its use of social trading as well as promotion of cryptocurrency trading among its competitive Retail FX broker brethren.

While at eToro Mr. Gandham was also the Founder and served as Chair for the UK Crypto Association, the UK’s first self regulatory association for the crypto and blockchain industry. The association worked closely with other industry members and the Crypto Asset Task Force in drafting regulatory guidelines for the crypto industry in the UK.

Previously, Mr. Gandham was the Chief Marketing Officer for UK online investment management platform Nutmeg, taking it through two separate funding rounds as well as overseeing Nutmeg’s re-brand from start to finish.