Courtesy of Pavel Afanasiev Compliance thrives when regulatory frameworks solidify. The overwhelming majority of speakers on subjects with links to compliance (mostly in fintech, mobile payments and banking roundtables) have nodded to the idea that even if there are substantial Read more…
Courtesy of Pavel Afanasiev Entirely aside from the fact that Dublin is a phenomenal city that unifies greenery, industrialism and (post-?) modernity in a successful marriage, it was a great place to host this year’s MoneyConf! On top of being Read more…
Disclaimer (i wrote this post in summer 2017, and it’s surprising that it is still very much valid 🙂 ) After a few recent conference speeches and meetup appearances, it became clear to me that ICO hype continues; and continues Read more…
Tokens are used by their issuers to govern and control their business models and help users interact with the platform. However, different token rights, roles or features have different regulatory implications. What are they? Here is a (very simplified) summary Read more…
The majority of ICOs that happened earlier in 2018 and in 2017 did not use any KYC tools, and had no idea who their participants were (here we don’t count ICO pre-sales and private sales, where ICO organizers obviously had Read more…
When I just started my consultancy business, I was approaching many great Fintechs and repeatedly got rejected. Most of the companies liked my profile and were willing to hire me as an employee. They saw compliance as a strictly in-house Read more…
People ask me these questions over and over again, and it’s visibly (or digitally) clear how furious and annoyed they are. Their main complaint is that crypto is supposed to be the most democratizing and omni-accessible service, this is why Read more…
People often ask me, which regulators or which countries are better if you want to setup Fintech business. I personally think, there is no universal answer, but there are some questions that you would want to consider. For example, if Read more…