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Komainu’s Paul Frost-Smith: ‘Trump has put the US back in our priorities’

Komainu has just completed the first ever Series B round funded in bitcoin. Its co-chief executive tells FN why he’s confident digital assets still have a future

 Can the former JPMorgan trader help Nomura-backed crypto custody exchange Komainu survive and thrive in a new world order?
Can the former JPMorgan trader help Nomura-backed crypto custody exchange Komainu survive and thrive in a new world order?

Paul Frost-Smith started out as a corporate finance lawyer in the City in 1988 — a boom period for London after the Big Bang two years earlier. 

Now Frost-Smith is living through another seismic change sweeping through financial services: rising investor appetite for cryptocurrencies. 

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