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Luno: Layoffs
Crypto exchange Luno (DCG-owned) cut 20% of staff amid automation push and declining retail trading volumes. This follows a 35% staff reduction in January 2023.
Source: CoinDesk Policy
The leadership read
Reductions rarely fall evenly, and the read is in the pattern. For Luno in the sector, cuts like this tend to protect — and sometimes deepen — leadership where the company is betting, while thinning the rest. Across EMEA, watch which functions keep or add leadership; that is the strategy stated plainly.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 105.9 (Hot), down 2.3 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-2.8pts).
Luno: 1 signal in the last 90 days.
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