Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech and the Law

The very idea that any industrialized nation or multi-national company can live without the United States or China as a key economic partner or commercial driver is a false narrative. This includes the Unites States with China, vice versa and their own multi-nationals. The true narrative, and the one we delve into, is how such nation and companies operate more securely with and within China – protecting their own people, goods, inventions and processes, beginning with their data.

Enter Sherman Deng, Cybersecurity and Privacy Partner at Fangda Partners, one of China’s elite “Red Circle” law firms. In this episode, Sherman and Paul discuss Sherman's transition back to Shanghai after studying in the United States and working as Senior Counsel for Marriott International. They analyze the commonly adopted strategy of “hiving off” one China operations, and is this the only option?, working within China’s Great Firewall, considerations when working with sensitive data, and practices to demonstrate credible information security – particularly when a breach occurs and a senior executive is “invited to a cup of tea” by China authorities.

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Lili Infante spent 11 years as a Special Agent in the DEA. She specialized in digital assets....cryptocurrencies, honing her craft in asset recovery.

Lili finds digital wallets, pass phrases and private keys in petabytes of data. Now in private practice with CAT Labs, Lili and her team have raised nearly $10 million, which is helping them help the federal government recover millions in seized crypto assets. She's not stopping there as the team now looks to offer digital asset recovery technology to the private sector - law firms, forensic agencies and citizens at large who may have that critical need to find....or recover...the key to their crypto stockpiles.

This is her story - from Russia, to the DEA where she became the go-to agent for crypto investigations to the private sector and CAT Labs. Lili has hard takes on the criminal use of crypto, the inextricable link of the technology with cyber security and our own national security interests and how this moment in time brings her life's work, finally, to the forefront of commerce and national security.

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Emotional. Intelligent. Artificial.

In Philip K. Dick's 1968 science fiction novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, empathy tests separate man from droid in 2021. But the tests have become easier to pass, androids demonstrating characteristics indistinguishable from humans.

"Pig, I will SLIT your throat. I will CONSUME you, tail to snout."

The horrors of PIG BUTCHERING have yet to be fully appreciated. If they were, we’d be MOBILIZING. Like we did as a Nation after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. After 9/11. Like we did as a collective society, globally, during Covid.

We’d be adopting and spreading technology. Like we did with Facebook. Like we are with Artificial Intelligence.

ERIN WEST is done talking about the problem, the human trafficking, the slave labor camps, the torture, the financial terrorism and the mental anguish that is Pig Butchering.

"We are at crisis level," she testified on Capitol Hill this September.

If you - Social Media, Telecommunications and Financial Institutions - are not part of the SOLUTION, you are the problem.

Join us as we dive into a solutions-focused episode of Opinions My Own: Risk, FinTech & the Law.

They call us pigs, and they want to butcher us.

For more information visit www.OperationShamrock.org and www.ChainAbuse.com.

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- Paul

WARNING.

Human trafficking, illegal guns & drugs, child pornography, stolen cryptocurrency, credit cards.... this is the marketplace.

Insulin, need any? Sex dolls, want some? This is the place, and there are 4 and 5-star reviews for those selling.

Crime-as-a-Service? This is where bitcoin mixers and contract killers mingle with expert cartels and lone wolves with novice computer skills in an un-indexed, haphazardly policed bizarre bazaar.

Welcome to the Dark Web. Don't have the stomach? Head to Mos Eisley's Cantina. It's tamer. Much.

This shit's real.

In my hour long conversation with cybersecurity expert and professor Will Spettmann, we don't just discuss cybersecurity and cyber crimes, we stroll the streets of the seedy and lawless place everyone's heard about but few have seen. Here's what you need to know about what's going on right as we live and breathe and how to protect yourself.

WARNING. CERTAIN SUBJECT MATERIAL IS UPSETTING.

Scene One: Industry Conference

Moderator: "What keeps you up at night?"

CEO: Cybersecurity.

Scene Two: Company conference room

CISO: Well done, everyone. Great tabletop exercise.

I discuss with the former CISO of the Israel Defense Forces, Gad Abadi, the root cause of Scenario One, so many CEOs' sleepless nights, and the glaring blind spot with Scenario Two, which overemphasizes the CISO, CIO and the technical SMEs but largely ignores the other C-Suite players and their teams critical to timely recovery, firm reputation and client servicing.

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Paul Caulfield

Guest: Gad Abadi, Lieutenant Colonel, former CISO, Israel Defense Forces

Time: 48 minutes

When do you need a lawyer? As a company engaged in blockchain, crypto or other innovative areas there are many instances when you might need to call a lawyer for advice on how to proceed in these uncharted waters. Throughout the previous episodes we have hinted at hiring lawyers and in this episode we speak to one of the lawyers you might need to hire - Lilya Tessler.  Lilya is a partner and head of Sidley Austin’s FinTech and Blockchain group. If you need advice on regulations and the legal implications of business decisions in the FinTech/Blockchain space she is who you should call. We have a conversation in this episode about her approach to the law, her clients and what pressing legal questions start-ups have.

NO ONE IS WALKING THE #AML BEAT IN VIDEO GAMES, and the bad guys know it. Elsewhere...in cryptocurrencyland, the media, law enforcement, Capitol HIll, OK...everyone is talking about the newest, shiny ball. Regulation and enforcement will soon kick into overdrive as mainstream market adoption of crypto assets explodes. Just check out the Twitter feeds of Michael Saylor (MicroStrategy) and Gary Gensler (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair). Don’t even get us started about Bloomberg LP (news not the man).