[Jefferies Hires Former CFTC Chairman 'Crypto Dad' Giancarlo as Senior Advisor] According to Bloomberg, former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Christopher Giancarlo will join investment bank Jefferies Financial Group in July as a senior advisor focusing on investment banking. Giancarlo previously led the CFTC in approving the first Bitcoin futures contracts on CBOE and CME and advocated for a relatively lenient regulatory stance on crypto. In recent years, Jefferies has positioned itself as a 'full-stack crypto and blockchain investment bank,' completing approximately 14 digital asset transactions totaling around $9 billion, and since 2011, has executed about 100 transactions in market structure and technology, amounting to approximately $141 billion. The firm currently has about 15 employees dedicated to crypto-related business.