Laurent Girouille is a senior financial services and digital assets executive with over 25 years of experience spanning trading, operations, compliance, and blockchain innovation. He currently serves as Senior Executive Officer and General Manager at Rain Trading Limited in Abu Dhabi, where he oversees the strategic and regulatory roadmap of Rain’s UAE entities. In this role, he leads exchange and brokerage operations, drives institutional partnerships, and ensures robust compliance under the FSRA regulatory framework.
Prior to Rain, Laurent was General Manager and Head of Regional Office at Komainu MEA, where he launched and scaled regulated custody and staking operations in the UAE under the VARA regime. He also founded and managed Targa Crypto DMCC, where he deployed specialized DeFi-based strategies. Earlier in his career, he served as COO of the inter-dealer broker GMG (Dubai) Limited for over a decade and held key roles at leading global institutions, including Société Générale and Citibank.
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