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Bob Wigley Joins R3 as Non-Executive Director to Boost Digital Finance Strategy

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R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) company, has appointed Bob Wigley as a Non-Executive Director to its board. Wigley brings extensive digital finance expertise to R3, having chaired UK Finance for the last six years and spearheading the UK Finance digital tokenization taskforce. He previously served as the EMEA Chairman at Merrill Lynch, where he developed a keen interest in market infrastructures through his membership on the boards of the Bank of England, Euroclear, and LCH.Clearnet.

Wigley is an Honorary Fellow at the Judge Business School, part of the Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University, and holds the position of Honorary Professor at the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London. At R3, he will leverage his experience to enhance the company’s digital finance strategy and promote the adoption of R3 Digital Markets.

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