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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Dean Sovolos
Chief Legal Officer
B2C2
Dean Sovolos is Chief Legal Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of B2C2, where he leads the firm’s global Legal & Compliance Division and oversees regulatory strategy, governance, licensing, and legal affairs across major financial centres.
His career spans law enforcement, U.S. DOJ federal prosecution, and global financial markets, providing a unique perspective on the intersection of national security, financial integrity, and digital asset innovation. At B2C2, Dean advises on market structure, governance, institutional adoption, and cross-border regulatory implementation as digital assets continue to converge with traditional finance.
Dean regularly engages with policymakers, regulators, and industry leaders in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom on the future of digital asset markets, with a particular focus on governance, market integrity, and institutional adoption. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford.
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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