Sessions
Digital & Regulatory: Why Crypto Belongs in a Bank
1:20 PM - 2:10 PM Wed
Summary of Experience
Matt is a director for RSM’s blockchain and digital asset practice focusing on strategy, risk and compliance. Additionally, he leads RSM’s efforts in advising US regulated financial institutions engaging in novel activities. Matt has over 15 years of experience working with emerging business models and strategic implementations at the highest level of both the public and private sectors, internationally and domestic.
Matt’s also serves technology companies entering the regulated space as chartered financial institutions or money transmitters engaging in digital asset activities.
Matt’s representative experience includes the following:
• Advising many of the first federal and state bank charter applicants with concentrated activities in digital assets and other novel activities
• Advising many of the first nonbank and special purpose bank entities approved to offer digital asset products and services
• Advising on the development of strategic, operational, and compliance strategies for domestic and international digital asset custodians, payments firms and lenders
• Advising leading financial institutions, financial services companies and fintech companies on digital asset strategy, regulatory, risk and implementation matters
• Advising leading fintech companies on strategies for bringing both institutional and retail digital asset products to market
• Advising leading digital asset creators, digital asset exchanges, NFT platforms/markets, software companies and developers on operational, compliance, and financial matters
• Advising private organizations on available bank and trust charter types and pathways
Education
• Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington