Speaker
Nathan Catania

Nathan is a Partner at XReg Consulting, a public policy and regulatory affairs consultancy specialised in crypto assets. An authority on global regulatory affairs for both the private and
public sectors, he has advised some of the largest crypto exchanges in the world on matters of regulatory strategy and licensing. Nathan has extensive experience working with governments, regulators, law enforcement agencies, financial intelligence units, and cryptoasset firms on education, regulatory audits, crypto-asset investigations, and technical matters such as DeFi.

He recently moderated a panel on global crypto regulation at top tier industry conference Crypto Bahamas (April ’22) and spoke at the Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies (December ’21), a joint initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL, and Europol.

A former regulator and technical specialist at the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, Nathan played a critical role in the development of internal regulatory policies and procedures which considered technical and emerging aspects of the DLT industry. While working at PwC, he spearheaded a working group that assisted the regulator in Gibraltar with the development of financial resource requirements for DLT providers.