Ari Redbord is the Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence company.
Prior to joining TRM, Ari was the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Treasury. In that position, Ari worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and other Treasury components to use sanctions and other regulatory tools effectively to safeguard the financial system from illicit use by terrorist financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, drug kingpins, and other rogue actors, including Iran, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela. In addition, Ari worked closely with regulators, the Hill and the interagency on issues related to the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies. Prior to Treasury, Ari was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia for eleven years where he investigated and prosecuted terrorism, espionage, threat finance, cryptocurrency, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking cases.
Hall A (Level 2)
Open
The rise of tokenization has introduced significant challenges around security and regulatory oversight, with increasingly divergent attitudes across jurisdictions. As digital assets are increasingly fractionalized and moved across borders, regulatory authorities and institutions must grapple with how to monitor, tax, and secure tokenized assets.
What role do governments and institutions play in ensuring that tokenization is safe from misuse, fraud, or money laundering, and how will international regulatory cooperation or divergence impact the growth of tokenized markets? The session will examine regulatory responses and the potential for cross-border legal harmonisation or the lack thereof.