Compliance Associate

Growing up across five countries—and now having lived in eight—I experienced the pain of cross-border money transfers first-hand: days-long waits, $30–$50 fees, and zero tracking. That frustration led me to focus my graduate coursework on digital-asset regulation, analysing how FATF guidance, U.S. securities tests, and MiCA can reshape global payments.

At VirgoCX, I put that knowledge to work: I filed 57 % of the exchange’s lifetime STRs and wrote Howey-style legal analyses that determined whether proposed tokens could be listed—giving the business regulator-ready evidence. Today I manage multi-jurisdiction compliance for an insurance group,...