Liat Shetret

The reasoning: tightly bounded permission lets banks experiment and learn within guardrails, without open-ended market exposure.

• They set out three conditions: holdings must be purpose-driven; they must be backed by robust risk and compliance assessments covering technology, operations, liquidity, cybersecurity, and illicit finance; and the total amount must remain de minimis relative to bank capital.
• Speculation is explicitly off the table.

The post outlines what the letter requires — governance and third-party oversight controls, documented limits, and a ban on speculative holdings — then offers their take: the letter gives banks a safe bridge into digital assets, letting them test and build services step by step with strong oversight.

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The sessions pair crypto-specific structures, such as centralized versus decentralized exchanges and custodial versus non-custodial custody, with an attack taxonomy organized by layer — people, network, ledger, and supply chain.

• They then match each layer to defenses banks already understand, including risk assessment, technical literacy, clear accountability, and training against human error.
• The conclusion: controls should draw on traditional finance, with crypto-specific nuance.

The recap names the standards a bank should map to — ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, FDIC/OCC, and CCSS — and points to a ByBit and Elliptic case study for lessons from real breaches.

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The emphasis is on a builder-minded leader who can maintain a high regulatory bar while keeping the organization's operating tempo — a tension they treat as a design problem, not a reason to slow down.

The hiring post describes the deputy compliance role as working directly with Shetret and named colleagues to build the compliance and BSA/AML foundation for Builders Bank & Trust (proposed), Block's proposed national trust bank focused on digital asset custody, safekeeping, and related fiduciary services.

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The post's goal is to help banks identify their own crypto risk exposure and appetite, then establish compliance boundaries through policies and procedures. That framing puts each bank's judgment at the center of the session: the educator draws parallels between crypto concepts and existing banking practices rather than prescribing a single answer.

The session covered CEX versus DEX structures, hot versus cold wallet use, and who holds the keys — and therefore the risk — in custodial versus non-custodial setups. These are concrete choices a bank would need to translate into its own policy.

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The OCC and education posts present an outside partner teaching banks, with an explicit invitation to use a vendor's training programs and certifications.

• The role posts take an insider's view: announcing a chief compliance officer and BSA officer position and recruiting a deputy to build the foundation for a proposed trust bank.
• The through line is that banks can engage with digital assets when limits, documentation, and controls are in place.

One post points readers to a vendor's learning programs and certifications; the other announces a role at Block's proposed bank and links to a job description for a compliance leader who will help design the compliance management system from the ground up.

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Shetret summarizes the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's confirmation that national banks can hold certain cryptocurrencies, such as BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP, only to pay blockchain network fees or for operational testing.

• They list three requirements: purpose-driven holdings limited to foreseeable business needs; robust risk and compliance controls covering technology, operations, liquidity, cybersecurity, and illicit finance; and de minimis amounts relative to bank capital.
• The post links to the OCC's Interpretive Letter 1186 and argues that it offers banks a safe bridge to experiment with digital assets without open-ended exposure.

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A useful starting point for a co-marketing webinar on crypto risk frameworks for banks. It offers a concrete regulatory hook and shows how to explain permitted operational use separately from speculation.

Shetret describes Elliptic bank knowledge-sharing sessions and lists the topics covered: CEX versus DEX, hot versus cold wallets, and custodial versus non-custodial models.

• Attack examples include insiders, fake hires linked to DPRK, social engineering, phishing, malware, API holes, SIM swaps, faked balances, UI and system exploits, smart contract flaws, and vendor breaches.
• Named defenses include risk assessment, technical literacy, clear accountability, training against human error, and controls drawn from traditional finance with crypto-specific nuance.
• Standards mentioned include ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, FDIC/OCC, and CCSS.
• The post also points to a ByBit and Elliptic case study and promotes Elliptic Learn programs.

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This is the strongest direct model for a bank-focused webinar or workshop. It offers a ready-made structure covering market structures, attack paths, defenses, and standards, and shows that Elliptic Learn is already promoted as an education channel.

Shetret announces a search for a Deputy Chief Compliance Officer or Deputy BSA Officer to join the team standing up Builders Bank & Trust (proposed) - Block.

• The post says the role works directly with them and named colleagues to build the compliance and BSA/AML foundation for Block's proposed national trust bank, focused on digital asset custody, safekeeping, and related fiduciary services.
• The desired candidate is hands-on and builder-minded, able to design and execute a compliance management system, support BSA/AML and OFAC controls, partner across risk, legal, operations, security, and business teams, and meet a high regulatory bar while maintaining Block's operating tempo.

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Shows Shetret's priorities in compliance system design, BSA/AML, OFAC, and cross-functional partnership.

• It provides background for a campaign brief, but it is a hiring post, not a direct webinar hook.
• Ask for a separate example of their webinar or educational content.

Shetret announces that, in addition to their current role at Block, they are taking on the role of Chief Compliance Officer and BSA Officer at Builders Bank & Trust (Proposed) - Block, Inc.

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Provides role context for outreach or a campaign brief: it confirms a leadership position at the intersection of Block and a proposed digital-asset bank. For a webinar on crypto risk frameworks, ask for a more directly relevant content example.

The hiring post describes a compliance management system, BSA/AML and OFAC controls, and work across risk, legal, operations, security, and business teams. A separate post announces their role as Chief Compliance Officer / BSA Officer for the proposed bank alongside an existing role at Block.

First-person role and hiring posts that name the team, describe the operating mandate, and link to a job description.

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A crypto compliance software vendor can position a webinar around the practical controls, governance, and cross-functional coordination needed to build a digital-asset custody bank’s compliance program, using Shetret’s program-building experience rather than generic crypto risk as the anchor.

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The post lays out purpose-driven holdings, de minimis amounts, risk and compliance assessments, governance, third-party oversight, and a ban on speculation. They frame the letter as a safe bridge for banks to experiment and learn without open-ended exposure.

A bulleted regulatory breakdown followed by a first-person takeaway and a link to the OCC letter.

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A vendor can co-create a bank-focused explainer or webinar segment mapping OCC guardrails to concrete compliance controls, testing boundaries, and documentation practices, with Shetret translating regulatory language into operational steps.

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The sessions cover centralized versus decentralized exchanges, hot and cold wallets, custodial versus non-custodial risk, attack methods across people, network, ledger, and supply chain, and defenses such as risk assessment, technical literacy, accountability, training, and blended traditional-finance and crypto controls. They also name standards including ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, FDIC/OCC, and CCSS, and cite a ByBit x Elliptic case study.

Session recap in list form, with a case study reference and an invitation to Elliptic Learn programs and certifications.

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A vendor can propose a co-marketing webinar built around this bank-education format, using Shetret’s risk taxonomy and framework mapping to help bank compliance teams assess crypto exposure and set risk appetite.

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The posts connect regulatory permissions to risk assessments, governance, third-party oversight, training, and standards already used in banking.

Repeatedly frames crypto adoption as a controlled bridge from traditional finance rather than a separate speculative activity.

Before pursuing a partnership, ask what sponsorship formats, paid partnerships, or commercial offers Shetret would consider; the posts do not specify any.

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A vendor can build webinar content or a co-branded resource showing how existing bank control frameworks can be extended for crypto, with Shetret addressing where traditional controls fit and where crypto-specific adjustments are required.

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Wellalage writes about what each industry expects from the other and where their cultures clash, drawing on first-person accounts from live hiring processes.

• Shetret uses their own bank work as a frame.
• Both explain a practical adjustment rather than debate whether convergence is good.

Wellalage focuses on recruitment: why bank processes take months, what crypto candidates should ask before moving, and how institutions should communicate. Shetret focuses on compliance: regulatory permissions, control design, and the program a bank has to build.

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Each treats the boundary between banks and non-banks as the story to watch.

Chopra writes forward-looking market-structure analysis for executives on agentic commerce, the autonomous economy, and who earns the mandate to act, using named frameworks and broad company lists. Shetret stays close to regulatory text and the operational controls banks must put in place, writing for the teams doing that work.

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Morginn writes about the real cost of AML and KYC failures, regulatory penalties and their effect on prices and open interest, and how analytics tools expose illicit activity—the same compliance territory Shetret covers for banks.

Morginn's posts offer vendor-style thought leadership on blockchain forensics for exchanges, investigators, and policy audiences.

• Shetret covers the bank side: what regulators permit, what a compliance management system needs, and how to teach bank teams to set their own risk appetite.
• Morginn's posts are older, from January 2024.

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Their posts analyze how crypto-native leaders and TradFi institutions hire differently.

• One example: a Head of Risk candidate was told a firm loved how fast they moved but worried about how fast they moved.
• Another is a market-infrastructure CFO appointment outside the sector.
• That makes Wellalage a fit for a webinar for bank and crypto executives on building crossover teams, governance expectations, and hiring processes.

The tradeoff is subject depth.

• The posts do not teach OCC letter requirements, BSA/AML controls, wallet models, or bank risk frameworks.
• The software company would gain a hiring-process perspective but lose a compliance-framework instructor.
• Bank-compliance audiences may also find recruitment content less useful for implementing controls.

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Their posts cover a Berkeley finance summit with panels on stablecoins, AI-native finance, and agentic commerce.

• They also include a piece arguing that banking is separating from the bank through fintechs, digital-asset infrastructure, and platforms, with concepts such as License to Delegate and Mandate Share.
• That suits a webinar for CEOs, CIOs, CROs, and CFOs on strategic direction and the autonomous economy.

The tradeoff is implementation detail and bank-regulatory specificity.

• The posts offer trend synthesis and conference interpretation, not a walkthrough of compliance controls, OCC requirements, or bank supervision.
• If the buyer wants bank compliance teams to leave with a control-mapping worksheet and regulatory checklist, Liat Shetret's material is closer to the task; Chopra would shift the session toward strategy and market structure.

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Their posts explain how blockchain data and analytics support real-time incident response, attribution, seizures, asset recovery, and policy.

• They also lay out compliance costs, including enforcement-driven drawdowns and reputational damage.
• That suits a session on tracing criminal activity, blockchain intelligence, and regulatory risk rather than a bank crypto risk framework.

The tradeoff is bank-audience specificity and recency.

• The posts date to January 2024 and do not show bank education sessions, OCC guidance, BSA/AML program building, or controls for custody and wallet risk.
• Bank compliance audiences would get forensics and enforcement context, but not the current bank-facing framework instruction the software company's brief calls for.

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