Compliance That Makes Sense

By Yana Afanasieva

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This is a place where FinTech compliance, regulations and risks are made simple and fun. Your host, Yana Afanasieva, corporate dropout turned entrepreneur, introduces you to pragmatic risk acceptance and agile compliance that scale, challenges financial industry conventional wisdom, and wholeheartedly believes that dashboards and automation often make much better job than humans.

Episode Date
175 - FinTech Compliance KPIs and Metrics You Can Control
May 16, 2024
174 - Compliance Performance and Responsibility for Things Outside of Your Control
May 09, 2024
173 - SEC vs Uniswap, Pavel Durov with Tucker, and Yana AI
Apr 25, 2024
172 - Being Authentic: A Conversation with David Yen About Making Decisions, Education, and Taking Risks
Apr 18, 2024
171 - Mistakes My Clients Made Last Month and How to Move Through Mistakes Faster
Apr 11, 2024
170 - Using NLP in FinTech Compliance
Apr 04, 2024
169 - “We Have To Do Something” Moments Are Dangerous
Mar 28, 2024
168 - Lisa Carpenter Interviews Yana about Crypto, Women, Technology, Risks, and Life
Mar 21, 2024
167 - How to Offer Crypto Staking
Mar 14, 2024
166 - Excessively Regulating New Technologies is Bad for Compliance
Mar 07, 2024
165 - Short-Term vs Long-Term Thinking: The Theory of Wartime and Peacetime CEOs
Dec 25, 2023
164 - The Decay of Binance, CZ’s Departure, and the Future of Crypto
Dec 18, 2023
163 - What To Do When CEO and Compliance Disagree
Dec 11, 2023
162 - UAE is Stealing Switzerland’s Thunder as the Ultimate Financial Hub
Dec 04, 2023
161 - Why The “Hire Slow, Fire Fast” Strategy Does Not Work
Nov 27, 2023
160 - Innovation Behind Bars: How FATF Actions Restrain FinTech Culture
Nov 20, 2023
159 - Your FinTech CEO Is Not Your Boss
Nov 13, 2023
158 - Conspiracy Theories About Money and Finances
Nov 06, 2023
157 - The Differences Between the Financial Crises of 2008 and 2023
Oct 30, 2023
156 - Why Compliance Should Be Managed as a Revenue Center
Oct 24, 2023
155 - Is MICA Good or Bad?
Oct 16, 2023
154 - Regulatory Capture in Financial Services
Oct 09, 2023
153 - Why Shopify Needs 800+ Payment Service Providers
Oct 02, 2023
152 - Worldcoin Launch and Curve Hack
Sep 04, 2023
151 - Continuous Education Traps and How FinTech Compliance Certification is Different
Aug 28, 2023
150 - Why I Created My Own FinTech Compliance Certification Program
Aug 21, 2023
149 - Is Apple Hostile to Crypto?
Jul 31, 2023
148 - Will the DAO Add Value to the Token?
Jul 24, 2023
147 - Rise of the Business-Like CCO Part 3: Compliance Organization
Jul 10, 2023
146 - Rise of the Business-Like CCO Part 2: Results Over Effort
Jul 03, 2023
145 - Rise of the Business-Like CCO Part 1: Biggest Mistakes of Compliance Professionals
Jun 26, 2023
144 - Compliance Problems: Binance and Coinbase vs. SEC
Jun 19, 2023
143 - How FinTechs Make Money
Jun 12, 2023
142 - Consumer Protection Becomes Counterproductive But Many Regulators Fail to Notice This Trend
Jun 05, 2023
141 - Why Founders and CEOs Sometimes Micromanage Compliance
May 29, 2023
140 - What’s Next for Crypto Regulations?
May 22, 2023
139 - How to react when your FinTech is in crisis
May 15, 2023
138 - Compliance Lessons from Amazon, PayPal and David Deutsch
May 08, 2023
137 - Just in Time versus Just In Case Compliance
May 01, 2023
136 - Responding to Google and Apple App Stores
Apr 24, 2023
135 - Where AI and ChatGPT Replace Compliance (and What Should Remain With Humans)
Apr 17, 2023
134 - Two Fundamentally Different Regulatory Approaches: PSD2/AMLD5/Singapore PSA vs FATCA
Apr 10, 2023
133 - How I Use Spirituality In Business
Apr 03, 2023
132 - Fit and Proper Interviews with Regulators
Mar 27, 2023
131 - FinTech Cofounders: When Friendship Becomes A Problem
Mar 20, 2023
130 - What Happens When Your Startup Fails? Lessons from Interviews with People Who Lost Their Jobs In Crypto
Mar 13, 2023
129 - US Crusade Against Staking and Stablecoins
Mar 06, 2023
128 - I asked ChatGPT about why CBDCs will fail
Feb 27, 2023
127 - A Fresh Look at Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Ireland, and Lithuania
Feb 20, 2023
126 - Queen’s Gambit as a FinTech Strategy
Feb 13, 2023
125 - Is There A Perfect FinTech Home?
Feb 06, 2023
124 - I Disagree with Davos People - Now Is Finally the Time to be Positive
Jan 30, 2023
123 - The REAL Reason Why Coinbase Was Fined
Jan 23, 2023
122 - Hiring People Before You Need Them Is A Terrible Idea
Jan 16, 2023
121 - The Real Reasons Why FinTechs Have So Many Unfinished Projects and Abandoned Ideas
Jan 09, 2023
120 - Project Management Lessons from Elon Musk at Twitter
Jan 06, 2023
119 - How I discovered Just in Time Method working at PayPal
Jan 04, 2023
118 - Stop testing your FinTech products unless you test your decisions first. Or why bottom-up project plans lead to over-spending
Jan 02, 2023
117 - Lessons of 2022
Dec 26, 2022
116 - When Compliance Must Be Humble
Dec 19, 2022
115 - Proof of Reserves and Future of VASPs post-FTX
Dec 12, 2022
114 - They Lie To Us!
Dec 05, 2022
113 - Boomers’ Mentality Can Paralyze Your Compliance Team (Even When They Are Millennials)
Nov 28, 2022
112 - Impact Mentorship - You Don’t Need Planning to Be Successful
Nov 21, 2022
111 - The Best Compliance Is Often To DO NOTHING!
Nov 14, 2022
110 - Knowing Regulations Does Not Lead To Success in FinTech Compliance
Nov 07, 2022
109 - Why A To-Do List Is A Bad Idea for FinTech Leaders
Oct 31, 2022
108 - When Building Government Relationships is a Waste of Time for FinTech Startups
Oct 24, 2022
107 - What Wirecard and Many Other FinTechs Have In Common
Oct 17, 2022
106 - How To Select Compliance Tools And Why Not Pricing?
Oct 10, 2022
105 - Is Cancel Culture Ruining Your FinTech?
Oct 03, 2022
104 - When Compliance Templates Don't Work
Sep 26, 2022
103 - How AML and Other RegTech Tools Became the Candy Crush Office Game for the Compliance Department
Sep 19, 2022
102 - Why Sanctions Against Tornado Cash Are Counter-Productive
Sep 12, 2022
101 - Client Fund Segregation Rules: Fiat and Crypto
Sep 05, 2022
100 - Why I Do What I Do
Aug 29, 2022
099 - Why Old Ways of Doing Risk Assessment Fail
Aug 22, 2022
098 - What To Do When A Fraud or Security Incident Happens
Aug 15, 2022
097 - The Story of Uber and How Founders Delegate the Wrong Things to the Wrong People
Aug 08, 2022
096 - How to Choose a Banking-as-a-Service Partner
Aug 01, 2022
095 - Hype Around Unhosted Wallets
Jul 25, 2022
094 - FinTech: Inflation or Bubble?
Jul 18, 2022
093 - How Easy Money Led to Down Rounds for Klarna, BlockFi and Co.
Jul 11, 2022
092 - Emerging Fintech Trend: Trade Finance
Jul 04, 2022
091 - Useful Strategies of Successful Gamblers
Jun 27, 2022
090 - What VC investors want to know about your FinTech compliance
Jun 20, 2022
089 - 10 Things I Had to Quickly Unlearn After Leaving PayPal
Jun 13, 2022
088 - Why I Built a Business with 1M+ ARR and 85% Profit Margin
Jun 06, 2022
087 - Crypto and Fiat Regulations are Converging: Good or Bad?
May 30, 2022
086 - Mara Raised 23 Million and Received Important Advice From Its Investors
May 23, 2022
085 - FinTech Compliance in Emerging Markets
May 16, 2022
084 - Are You Outsourcing the Wrong Functions?
May 09, 2022
083 - Freemiums, Free Trials, and Other FinTech Pricing Models
May 02, 2022
082 - Are You Overpaying for Your Compliance Tools?
Apr 25, 2022
081 - The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Apr 18, 2022
New FinTech Trends: Fragmentation, Payment Channels, and Small Liquidity Pools
Apr 11, 2022
079 - Reality Check for the FinTech Industry
Apr 04, 2022
078 - FinTech Startups Need Fewer People Than They Think
Mar 28, 2022
077 - When It’s Time to Fire Your Compliance Officer
Mar 21, 2022
076 - Creating New Legal Entities in FinTech is a Terrible Idea
Mar 14, 2022