Kahina Van Dyke, one-time senior vice president of business concern and development at blockchain firm Ripple, took on the role of Global Caput, Digital Channels and Client Data Analytics at major bank Standard Chartered.

According to an official announcement published by Standard Chartered on February. 19, Van Dyke joined the banking company's Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) division.

Improving Standard Chartered's data analytics

The CCIB division focuses on corporate clients, financial institutions, and investors. The experts working on the team connect those clients with each other, and provide them communication and admission to financing. CCIB chief executive Simon Cooper explained in the announcement that he expects Van Dyke to take Standard Chartered'due south "data analytics and aqueduct capabilities to the side by side level."

Earlier working at Ripple, she also worked at Facebook as global director of fiscal services and payments. Neither Van Dyke nor Standard Chartered had answered Cointelegraph'southward inquiry at press time.

Co-ordinate to visitor information website Owler, Standard Chartered has an annual revenue of $xiv.four billion and staffs 85,000 employees.

Standard Chartered's human relationship with blockchain

While the announcement does not clarify whether Standard Chartered plans to leverage the blockchain-related experience Van Dyke earned while working at Ripple, it would exist quite unsurprising given that Standard Chartered has shown interest in the technology in the past.

Every bit Cointelegraph reported in November 2022, Standard Chartered joined blockchain standard-building organization the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance. In August 2022, the banking company too completed its first joint blockchain-based supply chain financing transaction.