The Experience of the Binance Compliance Team

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Binance has launched a series consisting of six videos dedicated to our compliance experts and their opinions on various aspects of their work.

In the fifth video of the series, our experts talk to us about the extensive experience and expertise they bring to the Binance compliance and investigation team.



In recent years, Binance has made significant investment to boost its compliance and investigation capabilities. As a result, we now have a set of world-class professionals who bring a unique combination of law enforcement, compliance, investigation and cryptocurrency experience to the team.

In the fifth video of this series, some of our compliance and investigation managers will tell us about their career paths and unique experience.

Matt Price, international Ecuador Mobile Number List director of intelligence and research at Binance, reappears in this week's episode to talk to us about his experience in law enforcement in the United States, where he worked at both the local and federal levels. Matt eventually joined the US Treasury Department as a cybercrime investigator. In this role, he worked on cases involving major darknet markets, mixing services, and other criminal schemes involving digital assets.

Additionally, Chagri Poyraz, our international sanctions director, also appears again in this week's video. Chagri tells us about his experience developing a compliance program to prevent financial crimes for South Korea's largest e-commerce company, which he also trades on the New York Stock Exchange. Additionally, he also previously worked for HSBC in the area of ​​regional sanctions compliance.
               


Then it is the turn of Steve Christie, head of compliance at Binance, who remembers how he began his career in the traditional financial sector. For nearly seven years, he worked at a banking entity where he ended up directing the company's financial intelligence unit and anti-money laundering (AML) investigations. He entered the world of cryptocurrencies in 2015, becoming chief compliance officer at Xapo, after which he spent four and a half years as chief compliance officer at US-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken.

The episode concludes with Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's director of financial crimes compliance, who spent fifteen years in various law enforcement positions, including special agent of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division. CI, for its acronym in English) of the United States. There he realized that the transparency of public blockchains offered enormous opportunities for researchers, and it was then that he was drawn to the world of cryptocurrencies. Since then, he has been able to have a significant impact on the sector, leading numerous high-profile cryptocurrency-related investigations and pioneering new methods to solve cybercrime. Now, his goal is to do the same on Binance.