Binance Chief Financial Officer Kaiser Ng is leaving after more than five years at the exchange and will be succeeded by Justin Yek, formerly vice president of finance at payments company Airwallex. Binance co-CEO Yi He said the transition had been in place for six months and was unrelated to the Oct. 29 security breach, in which about $6.3 billion in digital assets was stolen. An earlier account put affected cryptocurrency at approximately $6.34 billion, with customer withdrawals reaching about $4.72 billion in net outflows after services reopened; Binance said it would absorb the losses, had replenished about 98% of affected assets by Nov. 4, and was pursuing infrastructure repairs, security upgrades and an independent cybersecurity review. Ng said he plans to build businesses involving basketball, music, graphics processing units, robotics, gold and collectibles, with real-world asset tokenization and artificial intelligence central to his next step. He invited prospective collaborators to join those efforts and highlighted Abu Dhabi-based AI and advanced-technology investor MGX, which acquired a minority stake in Binance through a $2 billion investment in March 2025. Binance has continued developing tokenized-securities products, including the Bstocks conversion program and Ondo Global Markets' February integration with Binance Alpha, as well as seven AI agent skills launched in March.