The concerns swirling around unhosted or self-hosted wallets and FinCEN's recent notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on the topic have captivated and consumed the cryptocurrency industry and regulators around the world. Unhosted wallets provoke questions of privacy and security at the heart of the promise of cryptocurrency.    

In this episode, TRM Talks with Former DOJ Money Laundering Chief and Celo Compliance Head Jai Ramaswamy, author of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Unhosted Wallets, and FinCEN Deputy Director Michael Mosier on unhosted wallets and the challenges of threading the needle between privacy and financial integrity in crypto regulation.  

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

The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contains the most significant anti-money laundering legislation in decades and signals a seismic shift in the relationship between law enforcement, financial institutions and regulators. Not only does the NDAA require businesses to provide critical beneficial ownership information to regulators, but the legislation redefines currency to include crypto for purposes of its anti-money laundering regime.

What does the NDAA mean for the cryptocurrency space and for your business?  TRM Talks to Former Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs Andrew Eck and crypto legal legend Carol Van Cleef about what the NDAA means for crypto.

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

Unhosted wallets, the travel rule, and DeFi, oh my!  The Biden Administration enters the cryptocurrency fray in an important moment for government and industry.  If this is the decade of crypto, what should we expect from the new administration?

Watch this TRM Talk with Kristin Smith, Executive Director of the Blockchain Association and Jerry Brito, Executive Director of Coin Center as we discuss how the Biden Administration is likely to view digital assets in an ever-changing landscape. We will discuss filling critical appointments, key policy positions, and everything else you should expect on cryptocurrency from the new occupants of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

How in the world did the Department of Justice and the IRS seize $1 billion in Bitcoin? What happens now to the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in history? How do the very best agents and prosecutors conduct these complex investigations into webs of financial transactions that span the globe?  

Tune into this episode of TRM Talks with former Assistant United States Attorney Zia Faruqui, IRS-CI Special Agent Chris Janczewski, and other special guests!  

They are the dream team that investigated and prosecuted the most important cryptocurrency cases in recent history.  They disrupted North Korean cybercriminal hacking team Lazarus Group, took down the largest darknet marketplace for child exploitation Welcome to Video and seized millions of dollars in cryptocurrency headed to terrorist groups Hamas, al-Qaeda and Isis.  

This team provides some inside baseball on what it takes to investigate and prosecute the biggest cryptocurrency cases.  

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

This month, the US Department of Justice published an 83-page Enforcement Framework.  The Report gives a detailed look at legitimate uses of cryptocurrencies, the risks of illicit activity, and federal enforcement challenges and strategies.

In this TRM Talk with the Chair of the Crypto Enforcement Framework Task Force and former Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman, Jessie K. Liu, former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Supervisory Special Agent Greg Monahan, Cyber Crimes Unit, IRS-Criminal Investigation, we discuss DOJ's new cryptocurrency enforcement framework, the ways in which the interagency focuses on cryptocurrency and how the interagency works in close coordination in the cryptocurrency space as highlighted by a number of recent investigations and enforcement actions.

Every other week, TRM’s Global Head of Policy, Ari Redbord, sits down with business leaders, policy makers, and investigators from across the globe to talk about the key crypto policy, regulatory and enforcement issues of the day.