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Credit Suisse trader quits to open $30m crypto hedge fund

Latest individual to leave large, established City firm to join the cryptocurrency craze

Credit Suisse trader quits to open $30m crypto hedge fund

A former Credit Suisse foreign exchange trader has quit banking and raised $30m to launch a cryptocurrency hedge fund in Amsterdam.

Petro Levchenko, who spent 10 years as an FX trader at the London headquarters of Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas and Royal Bank of Scotland, has become the latest person to swap large City institutions for the burgeoning cryptocurrency markets.

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