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 friction to the money laundering process. TRM's Ari Redbord is joined for a special TRM Talks by Dr. Jung H. Pak, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multilateral Affairs and Deputy Special Representative for the DPRK at the United States Department of State, Dr. John Park, Director of the Korea Project and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, and former FBI analyst and DPRK expert Nick Carlsen of TRM’s Global Investigations team, to discuss the DPRK threat and how to mitigate it.

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 on combating the ‘criminal abuse of crypto assets’ .
In this webinar, TRM is joined by representatives from the Home Office and HM Treasury to discuss the illicit finance risks faced by the UK's cryptoasset sector, how ECPII plans to counter these and how the private sector can play a vital role in combating the criminal abuse of cryptoassets.

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 challenges of a potential digital dollar.
The Digital Dollar Project (DDP), created to encourage research and public discussion on the potential advantages and challenges of a U.S. CBDC, is leading that discussion.
TRM Talks is joined by former Chairman of the CFTC and Digital Dollar Board Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo and Digital Dollar Executive Director Jennifer Lassiter to discuss the future of a digital dollar.

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.

This week, TRM’s policy team came together to break down the extensive regulatory and policy action we’ve seen in digital assets in the first few months of 2023.

As we move to a more decentralized world, policy makers globally are asking the same question: what does regulation look like for DeFi?

In 2022, we saw global regulators and policy makers begin to craft comprehensive frameworks for digital assets.

Over the last year, we have seen the tremendous growth of bridges which connect blockchains and allow users to transfer value from one chain to another. Bridges make for quick and often pseduo-anonymous transactions,  empowering the interconnected blockchain ecosystem to grow and thrive. 

However, bridges - which often store a lot of value - have also become attractive targets for hackers, cybercriminals and nation state actors like North Korea who see an opportunity to steal hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto-assets at the speed of the internet. 

In this session, TRM's Jennifer Vander Veer, a former F.B.I. Agent specializing in crypto investigations, will be conducting an in-depth discussion of bridges, DeFi exploits, and tracing across blockchains as bad actors develop new techniques to launder funds. 

This podcast is hosted by TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. We work with crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies to monitor, detect and investigate fraud and financial crime in crypto. Learn more about our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people here: https://www.trmlabs.com/about