Thomas
Hyun
Director, Cryptocurrency Compliance
Thomas Hyun is an AML and blockchain compliance expert with 15 years’ experience across fintech, payment and cryptocurrency platforms. With experience managing AML compliance and strategy at large financial services companies, he leads complex crypto compliance matters with due diligence, transaction monitoring, and AML advisory support. Thomas provides clients with a powerful combination of deep regulatory expertise and blockchain experience.
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Prior to FRA, Thomas was the Director of AML and Blockchain Strategy at PayPal. He established PayPal’s financial crime policy and control framework for its cryptocurrency-related products, including PayPal’s first consumer-facing cryptocurrency offering on PayPal, Venmo and PayPal’s branded stablecoin.
At Paxos, a global blockchain infrastructure firm, Thomas was responsible for implementing the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) program around the firm’s digital asset exchange and its asset-backed tokens and stablecoins.
Thomas has additional experience across payments and FCC matters and previously served as the Vice President of Compliance at Mastercard as a dedicated compliance officer for its consumer products portfolio. He also spent over seven years within the forensics practice at EY, working on a variety of FCC investigations for US and foreign-based financial institutions.
- Binance: Leading workstreams evaluating customer due diligence, monitoring and testing processes for a multi-year US DOJ compliance monitorship.
- Crypto Product Compliance Advisory: Assessing risks for new product offerings for a crypto platform that facilitates on/off ramping for Web3/non-custodial wallet providers, focusing on KYC, due diligence, and transaction monitoring.
- Payments Processor: Evaluating the effectiveness of a global fintech and payments platform's AML compliance program, with a focus on customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, ML/TF risk assessments, and independent testing functions.
Biography
Thomas Hyun is an AML and blockchain compliance expert with 15 years’ experience across fintech, payment and cryptocurrency platforms. With experience managing AML compliance and strategy at large financial services companies, he leads complex crypto compliance matters with due diligence, transaction monitoring, and AML advisory support. Thomas provides clients with a powerful combination of deep regulatory expertise and blockchain experience.
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