Krishna Omkar has joined the London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) digital assets business, it has been reported. The appointment follows an instrumental role at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) developing comprehensive listing regime reforms.
Based in London, he reports to Darko Hajdukovic, head of new and private markets and deputy head of digital and securities markets. Hajdukovic took on the latter role in September 2023 as the company expanded its focus on digital assets.
Omkar spent more than a year and a half at the FCA, working on capital market reforms that were introduced earlier this week. The reforms aim to allow a wider range of companies to issue shares on UK exchanges, with the goal of improving competitiveness and encouraging firms to IPO in the country.
With an extensive legal background, Omkar spent more than four years at King & Spalding, most latterly as a senior associate. Before this, he was an associate at Slaughter and May for more than five years.
He began his career as a legal secondee at Moody’s Corporation, where he advised on a number of governance and compliance matters.
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