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Ari Redbord
Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM LabsAri Redbord is the Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company. TRM provides next generation blockchain analytics software to governments, financial institutions and cryptocurrency businesses. Prior to joining TRM, Ari was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury. In that position, Ari worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and other Treasury components to use sanctions and other regulatory tools effectively to safeguard the financial system from illicit use by terrorist financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, drug kingpins, and other rogue actors, including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela. In addition, Ari worked closely with regulators, the Hill and the interagency on issues related to the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies. Prior to Treasury, Ari was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for eleven years where he investigated and prosecuted terrorism, espionage, threat finance, cryptocurrency, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking cases.
Malcolm Wright
Founder of InnoFi AdvisoryMalcolm Wright is founder of InnoFi Advisory, a consulting firm that supports innovation and growth in financial services, particularly utilising blockchain, virtual assets, distributed autonomous organisations (DAOs), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). He has previously worked as a C-level executive in both FinTech and virtual asset firms.
Malcolm is also co-lead of the AML working group at Global Digital Finance (GDF), a virtual asset industry body that is supporting regulators and policy makers to develop appropriate, supportive legislation as well as supporting the industry in its goal to understand and comply with regulation. Malcolm recently completed an extended tenure as Advisory Council Chair at GDF.
Malcolm has led industry discussions on virtual assets with the Financial Action Task Force (the FATF), as well as regulators, policy makers, and law enforcement. He co-founded and co-led a global working group of 135 technical experts that produced the IVMS101 data standard now used globally by virtual asset firms to comply with the ‘Travel Rule’ as required by FATF guidance. Further, he now leads a project to facilitate easier onboarding between financial institutions and virtual asset service providers in conjunction with the Wolfsberg Group.
In his prior career, Malcolm worked at world-leading financial services firms including Schroders, Revolut, Thomson Reuters, BitMEX, and Eqonex where he led functions across product, technology, operations, and compliance. He also ran his own software development firm for several years before successfully exiting.
Malcolm now speaks and writes internationally on a variety of topics, particularly in relation to virtual assets, their risks, and mitigation of those risks.
In addition to his roles at GDF, Malcolm is also Chair of the Practitioners Advisory Board at the International Compliance Association, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies in the UK.
Oonagh van den Berg
Managing Director & Founder of RAW Compliance and Virtual Risk SolutionsOonagh is an industry award-winning Compliance Officer based in Hong Kong, with over 19 years of experience in law and regulation, and a mother of two.
She is recognised as a global compliance industry leader in promoting innovation, improved culture and providing access to affordable thought-provoking compliance training opportunities.
She is the founder of RAW Compliance, a global compliance social enterprise, which provides free webinars, masterclasses, training and mentoring programmes to the compliance community. She is also the Managing Director of the global compliance consultancy firm Virtual Risk Solutions VRS, which supports FinTech and Crypto firms with regulatory licensing and the development of innovative, streamlined, agile and automated compliance risk frameworks.
Passionate about improving risk typology detection on socially imperative issues such as Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery and Illegal Wildlife Trading, she also involved in various industry working groups and public-private partnerships.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oonaghvandenberg/
Email: Oonagh@virtualrisksolutions.com