{"id":9199,"date":"2021-07-06T23:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/financial-watchdog-fincen-recruits-first-ever-chief-digital-currency-advisor\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T23:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:54:06","slug":"financial-watchdog-fincen-recruits-first-ever-chief-digital-currency-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/financial-watchdog-fincen-recruits-first-ever-chief-digital-currency-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Watchdog FinCEN Recruits First-Ever Chief Digital Currency Advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) explaining the misuse of cryptocurrencies is a national priority last week, the bureau announced on Tuesday it hired its first-ever chief digital currency advisor. FinCEN\u2019s acting director Michael Mosier detailed that Michele Korver will be the bureau\u2019s new crypto expert and she brings \u201ca wealth of digital currency expertise.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

FinCEN Enlists Former DOJ Digital Currency Counsel as New Chief Digital Currency Advisor<\/h2>\n

FinCEN, the U.S. regulator that combats domestic and international financial crimes, has announced<\/a> the organization has hired the first chief digital currency advisor (DCA). Michele Korver will be FinCEN\u2019s first DCA after she worked for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and as a former federal prosecutor for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Korver will serve as the DCA to the director of FinCEN and she aims to \u201cadvance FinCEN\u2019s leadership role in the digital currency space by working across internal and external partners.\u201d FinCEN is ready to double down on the illicit use of cryptocurrencies, as the financial watchdog talked about \u201cthe misuse of virtual assets that exploit\u201d in last week\u2019s priorities report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichele brings a wealth of digital currency expertise, and will be a tremendous leader in coordinated efforts to maximize FinCEN\u2019s contribution to the innovative potential for financial expansion of opportunity while minimizing illicit finance risk,\u201d Mosier said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

While working with the DOJ, Korver served as Digital Currency Counsel for the department\u2019s criminal division. She has advised federal employees on matters involving crypto assets in cases that involved \u201ccharging decisions and other prosecutorial strategies.\u201d As far as digital currency policy is concerned, Korver has also worked with the Treasury\u2019s Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).<\/p>\n

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Michael Mosier was recently named acting director and new deputy director on April 2, 2021, and he too has a background with cryptocurrencies. When FinCEN named Mosier as the current director the regulator\u2019s Office of Strategic Communications noted<\/a> Mosier worked with Chainalysis.<\/p>\n

As far as hiring Korver and a new FinCEN director of strategic communications, Mosier remarked: \u201cThese are incredible people for an incredible moment for FinCEN and the financial integrity space writ large.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think about FinCEN hiring a digital currency advisor? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Following the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) explaining the misuse of cryptocurrencies is a national priority last week, the bureau announced on Tuesday it hired its first-ever chief digital currency advisor. FinCEN\u2019s acting director Michael Mosier detailed that Michele Korver will be the bureau\u2019s new crypto expert and she brings \u201ca wealth of digital currency…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}