TRM Talks

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

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 potential sanctions issues. This compliance program would include the use of blockchain intelligence and geolocation tools.  

In this session, TRM Talks is joined by sanctions compliance experts with robust experience in building out sanctions compliance programs for crypto businesses to discuss:   

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 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 alone, we have seen nation-state hackers steal hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto, and ransomware groups have been targeting hospitals, critical infrastructure and small businesses. 

This threat calls for a strong response that brings together the public and private sectors to ensure the hardening of cyber defenses and, where this fails, an incident response system to ensure that funds are traced, tracked and recovered.

In this special edition, we will be conducting a tabletop exercise that brings together critical players to depict how to respond to a breach in real-time.

TRM Talks is joined in the incident response war room by Jessica Peck, Prosecutor, U.S. Department of Justice, Alan Cohn, Partner, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Practice, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Jonathan Rajewski, North American Head of Cyber Incident Response, Stroz Friedberg, Chris Hoffmeister, Global Investigations, TRM Labs.

This podcast is hosted by TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. We blend blockchain data with advanced analytics to help financial institutions and governments fight fraud, money laundering, and financial crime. The TRM Crypto Incident Response team takes a concierge approach to quickly track down stolen funds, leveraging decades of combined experience and market-leading technology. Learn more about these services and reach out for support here: https://www.trmlabs.com/incident-response

Hosting the largest number of internet users per capita in the world, Latin America has seen a booming wave of technological advancement in recent years. In just the last two years, we have seen an explosion of interest in digital assets in the region.

Just last year, El Salvador became the first country in the world to approve a cryptocurrency as an official legal tender, leading to a global discussion on the risks and opportunities associated with the adoption of cryptocurrencies. 

We have also recently seen policymakers in Brazil, the region's largest crypto hub, begin the process of developing a regulatory framework for digital assets by passing a bill addressing key definitions, consumer protection, anti-money laundering, fraud and other key issues.

Simultaneously, other countries in the region, such as Mexico, are working to define a regulatory framework for crypto clearly. On the other hand, some countries, such as Bolivia, have banned the use of cryptocurrencies entirely.  

With so much activity, both positive and negative, happening in the crypto space within Latin America, TRM Talks will be delving into the region’s regulatory landscape alongside guest speakers from Bitso and K2 Integrity.

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