The Tornado Cash sanctions are unusual, unclear, and in my opinion, a perfect example of how modern politicians weaponize financial services and technical infrastructure. Tune in for this week’s episode, where I share my thoughts on why sanctions against Tornado Read more…
Let’s talk about financial services and linked accounts today. What are linked accounts? – Those are accounts that belong to your clients who are, for example, entities with common ownership or persons from the same family or otherwise clients that Read more…
After noticing that there’s a lot of confusion around the difference between client fund segregation and deposit protection schemes, I decided to clear that up in today’s episode by diving into what exactly client fund segregation is, why it exists, Read more…
Today, I wanted to tell you about one fun fact… Recently licensed FinTech companies are typically super excited, they prepare their PR statements and go on a roadshow to announce their license approval to the world. In 100% of the Read more…
Welcome to episode 100! In celebration of reaching this milestone, I have dedicated this episode to explain why I do what I do, and what I love about my job. Thank you for being a part of the Compliance That Read more…
I’d like to share with you what I learned while simultaneously riding a sales horse and a compliance horse recently. I know – it’s been suggested that it’s impossible to do it with one behind, but well… women are great Read more…
In the old-fashioned world of traditional finance, it was beneficial for risk and compliance teams to provide as much information as possible in a risk assessment. In today’s Fintech environment, the core role of risk and compliance teams has changed, Read more…
I observed recently how old-fashioned tabular or matrix-based risk assessments were questioned and challenged by regulators and also by white-label service providers during due diligence reviews. The challenge looked like a series of questions or (in some cases remarks that Read more…
Fraudulent activity and security incidents are inevitable. The important thing is that you know what to do if it happens to you. Tune in to today’s episode where I share my key pieces of advice on how to approach these Read more…
Let’s assume you need to complete an AML/operational/IT audit. You received the first quote from the audit firm and you are about to have a panic attack or something along those lines. 😩 🤯 😬 So, how do you go Read more…