2022 Cryptocurrency and Blockchain AML Summit

The Summit is an invite only program bringing together thought leaders globally to address the challenges of economic crime confronting Virtual Asset Service Providers, Policymakers, Law Enforcement, Technology Providers and Others Working with Cryptocurrencies and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The explosive development of blockchain based technologies and the creation of various types of digital assets has generated unprecedented, and in many ways more democratized, ways to interact financially on a global basis and conduct transactions on an almost instantaneous basis. At the same time existing legal and regulatory structures are challenged in unprecedented ways. How can we balance globally the immense positive aspects of these technological developments with existing laws, regulations and expectations to deter economic crimes and criminal abuse of financial systems?

Carol Van Cleef is the chair of the 2022 Cryptocurrency and Blockchain AML Summit and will be speaking on multiple sessions. Sessions include an Overview of the Current Landscape, The NFT Revolution, A Whole New World.

The Summit is an invite only program bringing together thought leaders globally to address the challenges of economic crime confronting Virtual Asset Service Providers, Policymakers, Law Enforcement, Technology Providers and Others Working with Cryptocurrencies and Distributed Ledger Technologies. The explosive development of blockchain based technologies and the creation of various types of digital assets has generated unprecedented, and in many ways more democratized, ways to interact financially on a global basis and conduct transactions on an almost instantaneous basis. At the same time existing legal and regulatory structures are challenged in unprecedented ways. How can we balance globally the immense positive aspects of these technological developments with existing laws, regulations and expectations to deter economic crimes and criminal abuse of financial systems?

Chair: Ms Carol Van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair of Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult & Cummings LLP, USA

14:00 Session 1: Overview of the current landscape –
Setting the stage for the rest of the summit Mr Pawel Kuskowski, CEO and Founder, Gatenox, UK

Mr Paul Snow, Chief Blockchain Scientist, Inveniam and Founder and CEO, Factom, USA

Ms Amber Scott, CEO, Outlier, Canada

Ms Carol Van Cleef, CEO, Luminous Group, Chair of Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice, Bradley Arant Boult & Cummings LLP, USA

16:00 Session 2: Status of regulatory initiatives
Mr Peter Marton, Deputy Superintendent, Virtual Currency, Research and Innovation Division, New York State Department of Financial Services, formerly Director, Digital Assets, Strategy and Optimization, Promontory Financial Group, USA

Ms Simone Martin, Deputy Director, Anguilla Financial Services Commission and former Head, Enforcement, Financial Services Commission, British Virgin Islands

Mr Jonathan Blattmachr, Deputy General Counsel, INX Limited and former Chief, Virtual Currency, New York Department of Financial Services, USA

Mr Joseph Borg, Director, Alabama Securities Commission and former chair, North American Securities Administrators Association, USA

Ms Pamela Clegg, Vice President of Investigations, CipherTrace, formerly, US Department of State USA

Dr Ruth Wandhofer, Industry Expert, Board Member and Chair of the Payments Systems Regulator Panel, UK

PLENARY WORKSHOP 1 – 16:15 to 18:00 The financial sector of Luxembourg – recent developments in AML and the interactions between financial sector actors to prevent financial crime

Chair: Mr Michael Weis, Partner and Head, Forensic Services and Financial Crime Leader, PwC
Luxembourg and founding Director of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Chapter, Luxembourg

Mr Marco Zwick, Director, Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission and former Chief
Compliance Officer Europe and Global Head of AML, RBC Investor and Treasury Services, Luxembourg

Ms Elisabeth Omes, Partner, Elvinger Hoss Prusse and former Legal Department, Luxembourg Financial
Sector Supervisory Commission, Luxembourg

PLENARY WORKSHOP 2 – 16:15 to 18:00

The power of partnerships: Joint chiefs of global tax enforcement learnings and ambitions for the future
Mr Simon York, Director, Fraud Investigation Service, HM Revenue and Customs, UK

Mr James Lee, Chief, Criminal Investigations Internal Revenue Service, US Department of Treasury,
Washington DC, USA

Ms Stacey Mills-Kelly, Head of Strategies and Tax Partnerships, HM Revenue and Customs, UK