TRM Talks
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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. Subscribe to our channel for the latest developments from the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
About TRM Labs
TRM provides blockchain intelligence to help financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses and public sector agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud and financial crime. www.trmlabs.com.
Episodes
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- EP. 122 | Building Ardence: Combating Modern Crime On-Chain and Off-Chain with AI · 30 minLast week TRM announced Ardence, an AI investigation platform that combines on-chain blockchain data with more than 50 off-chain partner sources into a single picture of risk. In…
- EP. 121 | Q Day Is Closer Than You Think: Quantum, Crypto, and National Security with Sanjeev Bhasker · 36 minSanjeev Bhasker was a federal prosecutor, Digital Currency Counsel at DOJ, cyber counsel in the Biden White House, and acting general counsel in the second Trump administration…
- EP. 120 | From Emerging Markets to Tokenization with Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg · 36 minAmy Oldenburg spent 26 years at Morgan Stanley — operations, emerging-market FX, the trading desk, then the firm's global emerging-market investing business — before the bank…
- EP. 119 | How Institutions Can Use Permissionless Rails with Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier · 40 minIn this episode, Ari is joined by close friends and two of the most important voices in our space: Rebecca Rettig, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer at Jito Labs…
- EP. 118 | Inside Australia’s Historic AML Reform with AUSTRAC’s Brad Brown · 31 minAustralia just rolled out its biggest anti-money laundering reform in two decades — and it didn't just tighten existing rules, it more than doubled the number of businesses…
- EP. 117 | A 1934 Footnote Predicted Governance Tokens: Rethinking Crypto Law with Teresa Goody Guillén · 30 minIn 1934, legal scholar Adolf Berle wrote a footnote speculating that someone might one day hold a passive property right in active property — what we'd now call a governance…
- EP. 116 | Treasury’s War: Then and Now — Economic Statecraft in the Age of Technology with Juan Zarate · 37 minJuan Zarate joined the US Treasury just three weeks before September 11, 2001, and helped build the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), transforming Treasury…
- EP. 115 | Criminals Don't Have Compliance Officers: The AI Arms Race in AML with ComplyAdvantage’s Vatsa Narasimha · 34 minCriminals have no compliance officers and no regulators looking over their shoulder. That means their barrier to adopting new technology — including AI — is effectively zero…
- EP. 114 | The Women Rewriting Crypto's Rulebook with DEX in the City · 44 minOn this TRM Talks, Ari sits down with the team behind Unchained DEX in the City — three of the sharpest legal minds in crypto and three of his closest friends — for a…
- EP. 113 | Quantum, Hacks, and Privacy: Inside Blockchain Security with Penn's Brett Falk · 42 minIf a sufficiently powerful quantum computer came online tomorrow, every token on every blockchain would be a target — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana all share signature schemes that…
- EP. 112 | The Golden State of Crypto: Regulating Digital Assets with Brynly Llyr, California DFPI · 33 minBrynly Llyr has deep roots in fintech and blockchain — in-house at eBay, PayPal, and Ripple, where she served as one of the first general counsels in crypto, then founding team…
- EP. 111 | Compliance Built In, Not Bolted On: Inside Zodia Custody's Institutional Playbook with Sophie Bowler · 35 minBehind every laundered transaction is a real victim, a real crime, and a real reason to do this work well. That conviction has shaped Sophie Bowler's entire career — from her…
- EP. 110 | The Decentralization of Money: Building the Internet Capital Market on Solana with Catherine Gu · 34 minCatherine Gu has always been at the center of the shift toward the decentralization of money, a transformation that was once theoretical but is now actively reshaping global…
- EP. 109 | Building Institutional Rails On-chain — A Conversation with Canton Co-Founder Shaul Kfir · 36 minWhen the Bitcoin white paper landed in 2008, most people saw a payment system. Shaul Kfir saw a privacy problem — because he had spent years working on the zero-knowledge proof…
- EP. 108 | Policing in the Age of Technology with Det. Anoop “Snoop” Dattani, West Midlands Police · 33 minCrypto investigations are becoming a core part of modern policing. From ransomware and darknet markets to fraud and organized crime, digital assets increasingly appear in…
- EP. 107 | Building a Bank with a Heart: Inside DBS’s Approach to Crypto, Compliance, and AI with Chee Kin Lam · 32 minChee Kin Lam, Head of Legal and Compliance at DBS Bank — one of the world's first major banks to receive a digital payment token license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore…
- EP. 106 | Freestyling on Stablecoins, Privacy, and National Security with Yaya Fanusie · 31 minPrivacy and transparency sit at the heart of the digital asset ecosystem. As blockchain technology continues to reshape global finance, policymakers and builders face a critical…
- EP. 105 | Tracing a Romance Scam: A Survivor’s Story and the Investigation Behind It · 33 minRomance and “investment” scams are not random. They are engineered — built on trust, pressure, and highly scripted manipulation. And while crypto is often the payment rail, the…
- EP. 104 | Pioneering Payments: Turning Sandboxes into Infrastructure with UOB’s Kah Kit · 32 minKah Kit Yip has spent his career turning bold ideas about the future of money into working infrastructure. After nearly two decades at Malaysia’s central bank and leading…
- EP. 103 | Climbing Capitol Hill: Breaking Down Crypto Market Structure with Chainlink’s Adam Minehardt · 31 minFrom the Federal Reserve on 9/11 to Capitol Hill during the 2008 financial crisis, Adam Meinhardt’s career spans some of the most pivotal moments in economic policy. Now, as Head…
