Abigail Johnson, the third-generation chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments, rarely speaks to the press or in public forums. However, she recently spoke at Consensus 2017, a New York conference hosted by CoinDesk, a bitcoin exchange operator.
“Since she rarely makes speeches at events or industry conferences, it’s revealing which subjects she chooses to highlight in her public remarks,”
the
Boston Business Journal
reported.
Johnson was the only CEO of a major financial services company scheduled to speak at the conference, the Boston journal reported.
“Fidelity is experimenting with bitcoin and the blockchain technology underpinning it — employees can buy lunch at the company cafeteria using the digital currency — but Johnson acknowledged the technologies are nowhere near user-friendly enough for widespread use among a customer base like Fidelity’s,” the article said.
A
Wall Street Journal
report
noted that Johnson’s family owns 49% of Fidelity. According to the
WSJ
, Johnson told the audience, “It’s no accident that I’m one of the few standing before you today from a large financial-services company that hasn’t given up on digital currencies. I am still a believer.” (Sources:
Boston Business Journal
, May 23, 2017;
Wall Street Journal
, May 24, 2017.)
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