Dubai's VARA Regulations explained

Nathan is a Partner at XReg Consulting. 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 has moderated panels on global crypto regulation at top-tier industry conferences and spoken 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.

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As a Senior Consultant for XReg Consulting, Daniel is responsible for assisting clients in a number of areas. He specialises in analysing a client’s products and services and assessing which regulatory requirements they trigger and in which jurisdictions. He also assists in the drafting and reviewing of policies and procedures. 

While at XReg, Daniel has worked on a number of different technical proposals for clients from across the cryptoasset sector, covering areas like custody, stablecoin issuance, DeFi, NFTs, smart contracts, node validation, leverage trading and market integrity.

Prior to joining XReg, Daniel worked for the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission as a Technical Specialist in the DLT team where he helped supervise authorised firms and guide applicants through the authorisation process. He also worked to progress the DLT regulatory framework in Gibraltar. Before moving into the cryptoasset space, Daniel spent a decade working at traditional financial markets firms in Gibraltar and London, managing risk and trading futures, options and CFDs across a broad range of asset classes including equities, indices, forex, commodities and precious metals.