Quoine: Making Financial Services Accessible to all
Quoine is a leading Fintech Company providing trading, exchange, and next generation financial services driven by blockchain technology.
Quoine believes in a world where every individual person has access to premium financial services and not only the privileged few.
Mission
Provision of products and services that are required for the crypto world to become the new mainstream.
Liquid
Liquid by Quoine refers to a new cutting-edge cryptocurrency platform that provides top security and liquidity. With the liquid platform, the buying and selling of digital assets using Bitcoins, Ethereum, Quash and various fiat currencies is simplified.
Last year, the company was able to raise $105 million from its initial Coin offering in order to fund the creation of the liquid platform. Currently the company processes a sum of over $50 million in transactions every year.
QUASH
This is a utility token that fuels up the liquid platform, availing access to the entire suite of services rendered on liquid, accompanied with discounts and extra benefits.
Board of Directors
Mike Kayamori( Co-founder, CEO)
With the inspiration of the power of Blockchain technology and Cryptocurrencies, Mike collaborated with Mario and established Quoine in 2014. He has been greatly involved in investments, business management, IT, and venture capital all over Japan, United States, India and Southeast Asia, for over 22 years.
Before joining Quoine, Mike worked at SoftBank Group as a Senior Vice President controlling its operations and investments in Asia with SingTel and Bharti Group. Additionally, he worked as a Chief Investment Officer of Gungho Asia, the initiator of puzzle and Dragons. Prior to the SoftBank job, Mike worked at Globespan Capital Partners as a Senior Director. Globespan Capital Partners is a Palo Alto-based venture capital fund with more than $1.2B
that is under its management. Mike possesses a bachelor’s degree in law which he attained from the University of Tokyo and also a Master’s in Business Administration that he attained from Harvard Business School.
Mario Gomez-Lozada “Co-founder, President and CPO”
He is a co-founder of Quoine. He worked at Credit Suisse(CS), as the Japan Chief Information Officer and Head of Fixed Income IT Asia where he was in charge of projects related to the expansion of fixed income, currencies and commodities venture in Asia. He also had a duty of creating the FICC Global Development Center in Singapore. Being a Japan Chief Investment officer, he worked together with local regulators and his duty was IT Risk and regulation.
Before joining Credit Suisse, Mario worked at Merill Lynch in Japan as its CTO for 13 years. His duty was evolving the Bank’s IT in relation to the Fixed income, Currencies and Commodities business. He was passionately engaged in early electronic trading initiatives, where he built cutting-edge software for sales and trading systems.
Katsuya Konno (Head of CEO Office)
He worked at SoftBank Group for almost 8 years. While at SoftBank Group, he worked on various large M&A and business deals that were worth over $60millin, that included the acquisition of Sprint and Brightstar, Snapdeal, and Investments in Coupang which is the largest e-commerce platform in South Korea.
In 2 years (2011–2013), he spearheaded the establishment of SoftBank’s venture capital arm in both the United States and Southeast Asia. Additionally, he has driven various financing deals such as financing of ARM Holdings Plc, issuing mandatory exchangeable bonds that are backed by Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
Masaaki Tanaka(Board Director)
He is the Board director of Quoine. He is also a Senior Global Advisor for Price Waterhouse Cooppers international. Formerly, he was the Board director of Morgan Stanley. He worked at Mitsubishi UKJ Financial Group as a representative Director and Deputy President. He is an advisor of the Japan Financial Services Agency.
Atsushi Taira (Board Director)
He is the Board director of Quione who is working at Misletoe Inc as a Representative Director, Chief Growth Officer. He formerly worked at Yahoo! Japan as a Chief Marketing Officer. He also worked at SoftBank Corporation as an SVP, Global strategy.
Shozo Isaka(Board Director)
He is a Board Director for Quoine. He is also an investment Group leader for JFCO limited company.
Investors
Quoine Company has various investors who are supporting its initiative, for example, SBI investment JAFCO, MISTLETOE, Digital Garage, ULS Group, B DASH VENTURES.
Regulated in Japan
Quoine is the first ever world Cryptocurrency organisation to be officially licensed by the Japan Financial Services Agency. It became officially licensed on 29th September 2017 With a license no. 002.
In the news
Quoine is all over the news. It has been published about in WSJ-Wall street Journal, Bits online, Coindesk, FT-financial times, NNK WORLD, XFCCJ
Locations
Quoine has offices in Singapore, Japan, and Vietnam. Quoine consists of a powerful network of local patners with over 250 years of combined team experience in fintech in order to provide the best in class financial services for its customers.
Quoine Upcoming event
Quoine will be attending the Southeast Asia Blockchain Summit that is scheduled to take place at Sultan Hotel in Jarkata, Indonesia. Seth Melamed who is the head of Operations at Quoine is among the notable speakers of the event who will be talking about “the future and challenges of tokenomics faced by upcoming startups.”
Products & Services and (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qash)