Facebook-backed Libra appoints chief executive

San Francisco (AFP) May 6, 2020

Facebook-backed Libra Association on Wednesday named as its new top executive Stuart Levey, a former US Treasury official who headed team fighting financial crime. Levey, who has most recently been chief legal officer at HSBC Holdings, will lead the group founded by Facebook to manage a global digital payments system. Levey, who turns 57 in June, will work in Washington for the Geneva-ba