Sofian Berrahal, Head of Sales, VP at Dukascopy Bank, announced his departure from the company today to join Nexpay as Chief Business Officer. According to his post made via LinkedIn, Berrahal will join the crypto payments provider after spending around nine years at the Swiss firm.
“Last week was my last day at the Swiss pioneer, Dukascopy Bank SA where I spent almost 9 years. It was a great journey that allowed me to kick off my professional career. At the same time, I am very excited to venture to an even more digital financial environment by stepping in as Chief Business Officer at Nexpay, which is a major Payments provider for digital assets entities,” the former Head of Sales at Dukascopy noted who joined the crypto company based in Riga, Latvia.
Prior to his role as Head of Sales, Berrahal worked as the Head of Asia Business Development for around eight months and as a Research Monitoring Brokerage Officer for over three years. When he joined the Swiss company, he first started as an Account Manager. Also, before joining Dukascopy, Berrahal was employed at Riga United Football Club as a Board Member.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in European Economics Studies from the Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie and an EBA in Business Administration and Management from the EM Normandie Business School. In addition, Berrahal holds a certificate in Bloomberg Market Concept.
Dukascopy Crypto Offering
Recently, the Swiss trading platform expanded its cryptocurrency offering with ten new crypto-fiat trading pairs. Further, it added some of the popular Cryptocurrencies that are highly in demand among retail traders. The newly appended cryptocurrencies are Cardano, Aave, Basic Attention Token, Compound, Enjin, Chainlink, Polygon, Maker, Uniswap and Yearn Finance. All of them have been added against the US dollar.
Dukascopy remains one of the early adopters of cryptocurrencies and has even launched its native Dukascoin.