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Komainu has just completed the first ever Series B round funded in bitcoin. Its co-chief executive tells FN why he’s confident digital assets still have a future

By Bilal Jafar

Can the former JPMorgan trader help Nomura-backed crypto custody exchange Komainu survive and thrive in a new world order?

Paul Frost-Smith started out as a corporate finance lawyer in the City in 1988 — a boom period for London after the Big Bang two years earlier.

Now Frost-Smith is living through another seismic change sweeping through financial services: rising investor appetite for cryptocurrencies.

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