Speakers
Ari Redbord
Global Head of Policy
TRM Labs
Ari Redbord is the Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, an AI and 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. In that position, Ari worked with teams from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and other Treasury components to use sanctions and other regulatory tools effectively to safeguard the financial system from illicit use by terrorist financiers, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, drug kingpins, and rogue nation state actors. In addition, Ari 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. Ari also served as Vice-Chair of the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC).
Speaking at SFF 2026
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3:55–4:20pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Policy Rewiring
Governance-by-Design: Can compliance move at the speed of code?
FutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
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Antonio Alvarez LorenzoDeputy Chief Compliance OfficerBinance
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Ari RedbordGlobal Head of PolicyTRM Labs
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Ceridwen ChooChief Executive OfficerCleanverse International Pte Ltd
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Gary LiuCo-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerTerminal 3Moderator
About this session
The more money behaves like software, the more the decisive questions become legal and political rather than technical. Who is liable when a smart contract executes exactly as written and wrongly? How do sanctions and AML function when compliance is embedded in code rather than checked after the fact? What does systemic resilience mean when value moves at machine speed and a flawed rule can propagate across the system in a single run cycle? We will close the track with the question programmable money must answer to earn its licence: governance-by-design or not at all.
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