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Why Wintermute’s CEO isn’t scared of Citadel Securities

The former Optiver trader says more traditional finance firms will enter the crypto space, but digital natives will be able to compete

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‘We had competition from tradfi firms for years,’ Evgeny Gaevoy tells FN Photo: Lam Yik/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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The boss of one of the world’s largest crypto trading and market-making firms isn’t scared of growing competition from the world of traditional finance.

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