Speaker Navazan

Hedi Navazan
Director of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Crystal Intelligence

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Hedi Navazan, Director of Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Crystal and Vice-
Chair of the Digital Asset Task Force (DATF) through the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. She has been named as an official expert in digital assets and fincrime, appointed by the UNODC, and is an official member of the Europol Financial Intelligence Group. Having also worked at HSBC Bank, Hedi brings a unique perspective to her leadership roles with first-hand experience in regulation/compliance in DeFi and TradFi.
Crystal is a leading blockchain intelligence company that primarily works across the EU, APAC and Middle East regions providing services to government regulators, crypto institutions and law enforcement to provide enhanced market integrity and transaction monitoring services as well as bespoke investigative services to uncover financial crime, covering more than 40,000 crypto providers and tracking nearly 4,000 digital assets.
Hedi speaks at international events, most recently she spoke on tokenization and global compliance strategies at the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Davos event in February. She also spoke at the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units in Malta providing a comprehensive training discussion in collaboration with FATF and INTERPOL. She is also running a series of roundtable discussions on MiCA implementation in the coming weeks for instance across Europe.
Recently she published a report on the current state of digital asset regulation. Her experience spans anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), and sanctions within both public and private sectors. She can speak knowledgeably on key regulatory developments at a global.