Dipak Shah

Head of OTC Trading

Dipak has 20+ years of experience managing and running trading businesses as a proprietary risk taker and as a market maker in FX and Rates. He has held senior trading roles at Goldman Sachs and Citi in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong as well as being a Macro Portfolio Manager on the buyside with Capula Investment Services in London. He has an MSc in Mathematical Finance from Oxford University and has been a crypto enthusiast for most of his investing career.

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Illustration generated with ChatGPT showing a stablecoin vault with labels: "Licensing", "Reserves", "Audit", and "AML"

Market comment

Portofino Mint - 16 June 2025

Crypto investment funds hit a record $167B AUM

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Illustration generated with Chat GPT showing a Timeline-Style Evolution of Stablecoins Left to right: Crypto trading → Cross-border → Remittances → Banking infrastructure Caption: “The Rise of Stablecoins: From Niche to Necessity”

Opinion

Stablecoins Go Global

Once a niche tool, stablecoins are quietly becoming financial lifelines around the world

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Opinion

In Conversation With Dipak Shah, Head of OTC Trading at Portofino

Dipak Shah on crypto OTC trends and why he joined Portofino from traditional finance.

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Portofino Mint - 30 June

Crypto markets roared in June with ETF inflows, Circle’s IPO success, & rising stablecoin adoption

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