Quant Lipton pans Facebook’s Libra

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Like an “elephant in a china shop”. That’s how Alexander Lipton, former co-head of the global quantitative group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, describes Facebook’s effort to launch a digital currency, called Libra.

Speaking at Risk.net’s Quant Summit on July 18, Lipton said it was “far-fetched and slightly demeaning to suggest a company scrip as a future of money”.

Facebook claims Libra – which will be backed by a basket of fiat currencies and run on a permissioned blockchain network –

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