TRM Talks

In April, the U.S. Treasury Department issued its 42-page DeFi Risk Assessment laying out various money laundering risks for DeFi. The assessment, at the end, poses a series of discussion questions. On July 24  TRM Labs  is joined by three of the foremost experts on DeFi and regulation to answer these questions. TRM's  Ari Redbord  is joined by  Rebecca Rettig , Chief Policy Officer,  Polygon...

At the end of June 2023, the Financial Action Task Force released its fourth “ Targeted Update on Implementation of FATF’s Standards on VAs and VASPs .” The report surveyed 151 jurisdictions to find out what they have done to comply with the FATF Recommendations on virtual assets. According to FATF, 75% of jurisdictions that have made changes to their regimes have only done so to a partially or no...

In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with the Chief of IRS-Criminal Investigations Jim Lee.

For this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with former Treasury Official Eric Lorber of PWC and Isabella Edmonds of GeoComply to talk sanctions compliance ahead of a TRM Talks with OFAC's Dallas Woodrum.

For this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security Investigations Steve Francis.

In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with former U.S. Treasury Official and Founder of Capitol Peak Strategies Alex Zerden.

In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with Olta Andoni, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Enclave Markets.

In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with Kathy Kraninger, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Solidus Labs and former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

In this Flash TRM Talks, TRM's Ari Redbord welcomes former IRS-CI Agent Chris Janczewski to TRM as Head of Global Investigations.

Minakshi Yerra, VP and Global Head of Compliance at Ripple.

In this Flash TRM Talks Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with former FinCEN Deputy Director Annalou Tirol of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP.

In this Flash TRM Talks Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with ACAM's Joby Carpenter.

In this Flash TRM Talks Ari Redbord sits down for a few minutes with Crypto UK's Ian Taylor

In this TRM Talks, Ari Redbord is joined by Geoff White, journalist, author and co-host of the BBC's acclaimed " Lazarus Heist " to discuss the first and second seasons of the podcast which focus on North Korea's attack on Sony Pictures and the Bank of Bangladesh as well as the evolution and growing sophistication of North Korea's elite, state sponsored, cybercriminals. In addition, Mr. White disc...

In the last week of June, after a busy quarter of policy consultations, new legislative packages and ongoing debate, TRM’s Policy team held its latest edition of TRM Talks Policy. Ari Redbord and Isabella Chase were joined by Dr. Chris Brummer, TRM Labs special advisor and professor of Law and Financial Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, to unpack the latest regulatory and policy deve...

Today 114 countries across the globe – 95% of the world’s GDP – are working on a central bank digital currency including the United States which continues to study the efficacy and design of a digital dollar. At the same time, we are seeing the growth of decentralized finance, the proliferation of U.S. dollar backed stablecoins, and continued adoption of cryptocurrencies globally despite the “cryp...

Over the last few years North Korea has been attacking cryptocurrency businesses at alarming speed and scale stealing billions of dollars in crypto to be used for weapons proliferation and other destabilizing activity. As North Korea’s tactics have become more and more sophisticated so has the response with law enforcement, regulators and industry using new tools to harden cyber controls and add f...

TRM’s Ari Redbord sits down with former U.S. Treasury Official Caroline Hill of Circle to discuss recent activity on Capitol Hill, potential stablecoin legislation and the importance of legal clarity.

Ari Redbord sits down with Unchained’s Laura Shin for a TRM Talks to discuss her journey to 500 episodes, her most memorable guests and for a wide ranging discussion of policy, regulation and illicit finance risks. She even turned the tables on Ari a few times. 

In late March, the UK government announced the second Economic Crime Plan, setting out how the government will respond to economic crime between 2023-2026. It centers around three main outcomes: reducing money laundering and recovering more criminal assets, combating kleptocracy and driving down sanctions evasion and finally, cutting fraud. For the first time, the Plan includes a dedicated section...

As 114 countries across the globe experiment with a central bank digital currency (CBDC), regulators and policy makers have been discussing and debating fundamental issues of privacy, security, and the impact on existing financial systems. In the United States, policy makers all the way from the White House to the Federal Reserve, Treasury to Capitol Hill, have continued to discuss the promise and...

TRM's Ari Redbord sits down with US Treasury's Caroline Horres to discuss the much anticipated Risk Assessment For Decentralized Finance and how Treasury views the emerging technology.

As we move to a more decentralized world, policy makers globally are asking the same question: what does regulation look like for DeFi? In this TRM Talks, we are joined by an all-star panel of builders and innovators, former regulators and law enforcement officials, for a roundtable discussion on the unique regulatory challenges and opportunities in decentralized finance.

Over a year ago, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released guidance on best practices for cryptocurrency businesses as they navigate sanctions in the crypto space.  As part of that guidance, OFAC recommended that companies in the virtual currency industry develop a sanctions compliance program and conduct routine and, if appropriate, ongoing risk assessments to identify...

The exponential growth of the Internet of Money has created a broad attack surface for threat actors. The same properties that make crypto a force for good — permissionless, programmable, and instantaneous value transfer — are being hijacked by ransomware groups, scammers, and hackers to attack at unprecedented speed and scale. Hacks have become a part of everyday life in the cryptoverse. In 2022...