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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Patrick Green
Chief Compliance Officer
Banking Circle
Patrick Green is currently the Chief Compliance Officer and UK MLRO at Banking Circle, overseeing the Client Due Diligence, Transaction Monitoring, Intelligence & Investigations and Sanctions teams to ensure effective, client-focused onboarding and monitoring globally. Patrick joined Banking Circle as Head of Client Onboarding in 2020 and brings more than 15 years’ experience within the FI and NBFI sectors and is leading an initiative to digitize and enhance the onboarding, and ongoing monitoring, approach to Banking Circle’s clients globally. Banking Circle are a credit institution, regulated by the CSSF, UK FCA and BaFin, focused on enhancing the correspondent banking payment infrastructure both in fiat and, most recently, through the launch of the first European bank-issued MICA regulated Stablecoin (Eurite) in 2024. Prior to joining Banking Circle, Patrick spent 14 years at Barclays in London including roles across the FI, Global Corporate and Non-Bank FI verticals within 1LOD AML, Relationship Management and Cash Management.
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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