Following the Money: Crypto Crime & Asset Recovery
Crypto moves fast — and so does crypto crime.
Funds can move across wallets, exchanges, stablecoins and different blockchains in minutes, often across multiple countries at the same time.
So what happens when something goes wrong?
How are illicit funds being moved today? How do investigators follow the trail? And once stolen crypto is found, how difficult is it to actually freeze, seize or recover it?
Whether you’re building in crypto, investing, or just using it day to day, knowing what happens when funds are stolen or misused is becoming more important than ever.
We’ll explore:
How crypto is being used in fraud, scams and money laundering
How illicit funds move across wallets, exchanges and blockchains
The challenges of tracing and investigating cross-border crypto crime
What happens when stolen or illicit crypto is identified
How freezing, seizure and asset recovery work in practice
🍕 Beer. Pizza. Proof-of-Community.
📍 London — exact location revealed after registering
📅 August 17
Panellists (More to be confirmed)
Erica Stanford is a crypto, digital assets, stablecoins and AI specialist at international law firm CMS, where she advises in a non-legal capacity on cryptoasset risk, regulation, fraud, scams, digital crime and AI-enabled financial crime. She is the bestselling, award-winning author of Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption, which has been translated into 15 languages, and author of the forthcoming textbook Stablecoins: Law, Regulation and Technology, to be released in late 2020 by Edward Elgar . Erica writes and speaks internationally on crypto, stablecoins, digital-asset crime, fraud, emerging financial-crime risks and the role of AI in digital finance.
AGENDA:
6:30pm - Arrival, networking
7:15pm - Panel begins
8:00pm - Networking resumes, food served
9:30pm - Event concludes
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Huge shoutout to our venue partner ReedSmith for hosting us!
Reed Smith is a global law firm with deep expertise in emerging tech, digital assets, and fintech regulation. We're grateful for their support in helping us bring the crypto community together IRL.
Expect: The usual CML energy
Food, drinks, sharp conversation & Proof-of-Community™
📅 Monday 17 August
📍 Location revealed upon registration
⏰ 6:30–9:30pm
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