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TRM Talks: The Nuts and Bolts of Crypto Compliance

Oct 14, 2021 - 1h 2min

EPISODE 12

TRM Talks: The Nuts and Bolts of Crypto Compliance

With J. Ashley Ebersole,  and Elias Kokaly,  and Mikheil Moucharrafie and Merav Shor

TRM Talks: The Nuts and Bolts of Crypto Compliance

For crypto exchanges and other digital asset service providers, the nuts and bolts of a robust compliance program are many — from FinCEN to FATF, SARS to subpoenas, transaction monitoring to the travel rule. As legislators and regulators around the globe attempt to bring legal clarity to crypto, compliance teams are meanwhile tasked with understanding and applying current regulatory frameworks to their businesses, and more broadly, with managing financial crime risk as it takes new and different shapes in the cryptoverse. In this edition of TRM Talks, legal and compliance experts in the crypto space discuss the building blocks of a strong crypto compliance program, plus challenges and best practices to consider, including:

- understanding current regulatory requirements and potential developments on the horizon
- developing policies and procedures to meet those requirements
- using technology and tools to support a modern crypto compliance framework

TRM Talks is a monthly webinar series featuring discussions with compliance, regulatory and technology leaders in the crypto space.

About the guests

J. Ashley Ebersole
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Ashley Ebersole is a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney whose diverse practice spans from counseling FinTech startups and financial sponsors on topics including regulatory questions, corporate finance, and fund formation, to representing clients in regulatory and enforcement matters with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, and state agencies.  Leveraging his unique expertise with the SEC’s digital asset regulatory and enforcement efforts, Ashley provides counsel to all varieties of participants in that space.  He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, holds his J.D. from Vanderbilt University and his B.A. Amherst College.

Elias Kokaly
TRM Labs

Elias Kokaly, an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, is the Head of Deployment Strategy at TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company that provides anti-financial crime solutions to crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies. In this role, Elias ensures TRM’s public and private sector clients are successful - whether establishing a risk-based anti-money laundering program, to efficiently conducting crypto investigations. Prior to joining TRM, Elias was Special Investigations Team Lead at cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. In this role Elias led a team engaged in complex investigations, acted as a law enforcement liaison and managed special projects.

Mikheil Moucharrafie
Circle
Merav Shor
Floating Point Group

Merav is an experienced attorney in the crypto space. She leads the legal and compliance department at Floating Point Group ("FPG"), a MIT born fintech firm offering smart cryptocurrency order routing solutions to institutional investors in the US and beyond. Prior to FPG, Merav worked at eToro USA leading regulatory licensing projects and strategic blockchain product roll-outs. She received an LL.B. from Haifa University and an LLM in Corporation Law from NYU. She holds a CAMS certificate and is a member of the NY State Bar. Merav is also a published author on privacy, consumer protection law, and crypto regulation.

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