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  • Binance has launched a six-part video series featuring our compliance experts sharing their perspectives on various aspects of their work.

  • In the fifth video in this series, team leaders will talk about the experience and competencies they bring to the team.

Over the past few years, Binance has invested heavily in developing its compliance and investigation capabilities. The result is a team of world-class professionals with a unique combination of experience in law enforcement, compliance, investigations and cryptocurrencies.

In Part 5 of this video series, we'll highlight the career paths and unique experiences of some of our Investigations and Compliance team leaders.

In this episode we speak again with Matt Price, Director of Intelligence and Investigations. He will talk about his experience working in US law enforcement at both the local and federal levels. During his career, Matt joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a cybercrime investigator. In this role, he participated in investigations related to major darknet markets, hybrid banking services, and other criminal schemes involving digital assets.

The video also features Chagri Poyraz, head of the international sanctions department. Chagri talks about his experience building an anti-financial crime program for the largest e-commerce company in South Korea, which is also traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Previously he worked at HSBC in the regional sanctions division.

The next panelist is Steve Christie, Compliance Specialist; he recalls how he began his career in traditional finance. Steve worked for about seven years in a banking institution, where he eventually headed the financial intelligence and investigations department to combat money laundering. He became interested in cryptocurrency in 2015 and became the chief compliance officer at Xapo. After that, he worked for about four and a half years in the same position at the Kraken crypto exchange, located in the United States.

The episode concludes with a conversation with Tigran Gambaryan, Binance's Head of Financial Crimes, who spent 15 years in various law enforcement agencies, including as a Special Agent in Charge for the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations Cybercrimes Unit (IRS-CI). In this role, he first became interested in cryptocurrencies, realizing that the transparency of public blockchains opened up enormous opportunities for investigators. After that, he made a huge contribution to the history of the industry: he conducted many high-profile investigations related to cryptocurrency and developed new methods for solving cybercrimes. He now aims to continue his endeavors at Binance.

Stay tuned for our new video in this series coming next week!