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In May 2022, the crypto ecosystem suffered a meltdown of epic proportions, costing millions of consumers their hard-earned cash and culminating in one of the biggest corporate scandals of all time: FTX. Now the storm clouds appear to be clearing, with bitcoin recently topping the key $30,000 benchmark and regulators in the UK and Europe taking steps to help the sector mature. For this Barron’s Live interview, Financial News is joined by Tim Grant, head of EMEA at Galaxy Digital, and Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, to discuss what comes next, as we approach the one year anniversary of the crypto winter.

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Alex Daniel
Crypto-Fintech Correspondent, Financial News
Alex Daniel reports on the turbulent world of fintech and crypto for Financial News. He has previously written for London business paper City A.M., commercial real estate magazine Estates Gazette, and The Guardian newspaper.
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Ari Redbord
Head of Legal and Government Affairs, TRM Labs
Ari Redbord is the Head of Legal and Government Affairs 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. He has also 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.
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Tim Grant
Head of EMEA, Galaxy Digital
Tim Grant is Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Galaxy, a diversified financial services and investment management company in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. In this role, Tim oversees the expansion of the firm’s presence in EMEA across all business lines including Trading Sales & Research, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Tim was the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the Swiss regulated digital asset exchange of SIX Group, where helped drive SDX’s efforts to launch the first fully regulated institutional digital asset exchange and CSD. Overseeing a team of 175 professionals, Tim helped SDX create partnerships with leading financial institutions around the world to bring the next generation of equity, debt, derivative and fund based digital assets into global capital markets.

Before heading SDX, Tim served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DrumG Technologies, a builder and operator of enterprise distributed ledger- and blockchain-based applications and networks for the global financial services industry. While at DrumG Technologies, Tim helped build the Titanium Network, a decentralized, anonymous, and cryptographically secured OTC consensus data solution for investment bank trading and valuation operations, which includes Credit Suisse as a network founding institution.

Tim has also served as Chief Executive Officer of the R3 Lab and Research Center, which is focused on bringing global financial institutions, established and startup technology companies, regulators and central banks together to research, develop, and produce new distributed ledger technologies and methodologies. In this role, Tim managed sales and investor and client relationships for all R3 products and services. Before that, Tim was a Managing Director at UBS O’Connor, a $6.5bn multi-strategy hedge fund, where he was Head of Quantitative Research and Head of Technology.

Tim began his career at UBS AG, where he eventually served as Managing Director, reporting directly to the Group Executive Board during the global financial crisis and ran the UBS Delta Americas portfolio solutions business within UBS Investment Bank.

Tim has a MA in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Financial Engineering from the Birkbeck College at the University of London.
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