September and October were highly active months for Global Ledger’s Head of Regulatory Affairs, Yulia Murat, who represented the company at several high-level international events shaping the global financial-crime and crypto-regulation agenda.
Among them were the FinCrime Leaders Summit in Frankfurt, the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime (GCFFC) Annual Summit in Abu Dhabi, and the 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets in Vienna — each offering unique perspectives on how regulators, law enforcement, and technology innovators can close the growing gap between financial crime and compliance capability.
Across all three events, one theme remained constant: innovation must move as fast as the risks it seeks to mitigate.
The discussions spanned from crypto adoption and institutional compliance to real-time data sharing, cross-border AML collaboration, and emerging laundering typologies.
On September 4, Yulia Murat joined industry leaders from Santander, Sygnum Bank, OSCE, and Transform Finance at the FinCrime Leaders Summit DACH in Frankfurt to discuss “Enabling Crypto Adoption by Financial Institutions: Managing the Related Money-Laundering Risk”.
The panel explored how financial institutions can embrace crypto without compromising compliance — a topic of increasing importance as traditional finance intersects with digital assets.
Key themes included:
Yulia emphasized that the true opportunity lies in building financial systems designed for compliance, interoperability, and transparency from the ground up.
Watch the video to hear Yulia’s take on how innovation can thrive alongside regulatory integrity and where digital assets are headed next, from the live podcast organized in Frankfurt.
On September 10–11, Yulia Murat joined the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime (GCFFC) Annual Summit at the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) — an event that brought together public- and private-sector leaders, including representatives from FIUs, INTERPOL, and the OSCE, to address how technology can accelerate cooperation in the fight against financial crime.
Yulia took part in the panel “Beyond the Broken Phone: Building Modern Information-Sharing Platforms for Cross-Border AML,” exploring both the challenges and the opportunities of modernising cross-border communication and collaboration.
Challenges discussed included:
Solutions raised included:
A recurring insight from the summit was that technology is not just a challenge to be regulated, but also a solution to be embraced. From privacy-preserving analytics to the use of synthetic data for training AI models, we are seeing tangible ways to reconcile effective supervision with the protection of confidentiality and trust.
On October 28–29, Yulia Murat, together with Lex Fisun, CEO and Co-Founder of Global Ledger, joined the 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets in Vienna, hosted by UNODC and organised by Europol and the Basel Institute on Governance.
The conference brought together regulators, law enforcement agencies, and industry experts to explore how real-time data, intelligence sharing, and risk-based supervision can strengthen global resilience against crypto-enabled crime.
During Yulia’s session, “How Crypto Supercharges Money Laundering and Strategies to Keep Up,” Yulia shared findings from Global Ledger’s 2025 report on how fast crypto is laundered, revealing how speed and sophistication have become defining threats in the digital era.
The findings from the report point to a rapidly evolving landscape where:
Across the events, one insight remained clear: Criminals act in seconds and hours, while the cooperation systems still work in days and weeks. Unless we close that gap, we remain one step behind.
Global Ledger is dedicated to helping close that gap by providing blockchain analytics, attribution-verified data, and investigative tools that allow financial institutions, exchanges, regulators, and law enforcement to detect risks early, act confidently, and strengthen international AML/CFT efforts.