Crypto Compliance and Legal Roundtable - Sydney edition

Crypto Compliance & Legal Roundtable | Sydney

Join us on November 16th in Sydney for an exclusive, invitation-only Crypto Compliance and Legal Roundtable, bringing together a selected group of compliance and legal leaders, regulators, and policy experts.

Hosted by Solidus Labs and Thomsons, this in-person session will focus on advancing global crypto compliance through practical discussion. The roundtable is designed to foster open dialogue, share best practices, and identify actionable solutions to today’s most pressing regulatory and compliance challenges.

Agenda

16:30 – Registration17:00 – 18:30– Roundtable discussions: Best practices, challenges, and actionable solutions across key crypto compliance and legal topics, including:

Title 1 - Navigating Australia’s evolving digital asset regulatory framework

Speaker: Faranaz Alam, Director, Remittance and Virtual Assets, AUSTRAC; David Halperin, Senior Specialist - Digital Assets & Fintech, ASIC

15 minutes followed by 15 minutes QA

Title 2 - Disclosure in the age of tokenisation - the awkward younger sibling to licensing

Speakers: Liam Hennessy, Partner at Thomsons and Dianah Njeri Igati, Regional Head of Compliance-APAC & Company Secretary at Pepperstone

Title 3 - Trading and execution

Speakers: Sophie Bowler, Group Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Zodia Custody by Standard Chartered and Lisa Hornery, Regional Compliance Officer, Kraken

18:30 – Networking

Address: Thomsons, Sixty Martin Place, Level 14, 60 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW 2000

Places are limited. Registration is subject to approval.

About ThomsonsThomsons is a major Australian law firm trusted on legal assignments where complexity, consequence and scrutiny converge. We advise companies, governments and institutions on legal assignments that demand clear judgement and disciplined execution under pressure.

Thomsons has Australia’s largest financial services regulatory practice dedicated to digital assets, and works for the globe’s leading digital assets firms on their most complicated and business critical mandates, and Governments, regulators and universities on policy design.

For more information, visit: https://www.thomsons.com.au/

About Solidus Labs

Born in crypto and built for efficiency across all asset classes, Solidus Labs is the category-definer for agentic-based compliance in trade surveillance and risk monitoring. At its core is HALO, an AI-powered, risk-based platform trusted globally by financial institutions, crypto firms, and regulators to enable proactive, intelligence-led oversight across any product, venue, or asset class.

For more information, visit: https://soliduslabs.com/