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Caitlin recently left Wall Street after 22 years, having worked at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Salomon Brothers, having attained the rank of Managing Director for 15 of those years. During her career, she started and ran three new businesses, was a top-rated equity research analyst, and worked directly for co-CEOs on a business restructuring in Zurich. Caitlin received many honors, most recently from Institutional Investor (which named her to its list of the most influential people in pensions during her final 3 years on Wall Street, noting the clients she advised “changed pension history” by creating the market for large-case pension settlements). Caitlin is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, 1994), the Kennedy School of Government (MPP, 1994) and the University of Wyoming (BA, 1990).
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Why Financial Regulators Are Warming to Blockchains – And Rightfully So

Caitlin Long/April 26, 2016June 19, 2022

Financial industry regulators around the world are beginning to embrace the reality that blockchain technology will help them do their jobs, as well they should.  I write this post as a 22-year veteran of Wall Street who is passionate about market structure, and who has seen the…

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