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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Sandra Blaga
AI Industry Solutions Lead
Swift
Sandra Blaga is AI Industry Solutions Lead at Swift, where she leads AI innovation across the organisation, with a focus on secure data collaboration and responsible industry-wide adoption. She works at the intersection of AI, data innovation, financial services, and risk, helping shape practical applications of emerging technology in highly regulated environments.
Previously, Sandra was Strategy & Innovation Manager at NatWest Group, where she led a transformation programme delivering predictive analytics and data capabilities for Private Banking, and served on the bank’s Ethical AI Panel overseeing high-risk AI initiatives. Her earlier work across data, automation, and regulatory change included delivering scalable automation capabilities across banking operations.
Sandra is also passionate about inclusive leadership, mentoring, and using technology to create more resilient, trusted financial ecosystems.
Speaking at
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4:00–5:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Securing the Future
Defending the Chain: Financial Crime in a Tokenized System
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Ariadne PlaitakisDeputy Director, Regulation, Policy, & ResearchGates Foundation
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Dr. Bernhard GehraManaging Director & Senior Partner, New YorkBCG
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David RiederPolicy AdvisorSwiss State Secretariat for International Financial (SIF)
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Dean SovolosChief Legal OfficerB2C2
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Patrick GreenChief Compliance OfficerBanking Circle
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Sandra BlagaAI Industry Solutions LeadSwift
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Wee Siang LeeExecutive Director (PDS), Head of APAC CompliancePaxos
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Daniela BarbosaGeneral Manager, Decentralized Technologies, Linux Foundation & Executive DirectorLF Decentralized TrustModerator
About this session
Blockchain has created a new attack surface - from bridge exploits and mixer obfuscation to cross-chain layering that outpaces the tools regulators were given to fight it. As institutional capital flows onto on-chain infrastructure, the stakes of getting AML, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring wrong have risen sharply.
This session brings together compliance leads, blockchain analytics practitioners, and regulators for an unfiltered conversation about what financial crime looks like in a tokenized system, what the current toolset can and cannot catch, and where the industry needs to move before the next major exploit exposes the gap.
Participants will examine the specific failure modes: how privacy-enhancing technologies complicate sanctions screening, why cross-chain bridges remain the highest-risk chokepoint in institutional flows, and what travel rule compliance actually looks like when assets move between permissioned and public infrastructure. The discussion will also touch on how intelligence is shared - or not - across institutional networks, and what it takes to make that collaboration work at scale.
The roundtable will also confront a harder structural question - whether the AML frameworks inherited from fiat finance are architecturally capable of governing a system where settlement is atomic, pseudonymous, and borderless by design, and what a purpose-built compliance regime for tokenized markets would need to look like.
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