Crystal Noe — Sanctions Risk in Digital and Decentralized Financial Systems

Crystal Noe is a sanctions and digital assets compliance executive specializing in sanctions risk in digital and decentralized financial systems. She has led enterprise-scale sanctions risk, control design, and regulatory remediation programs across financial institutions, technology companies, and digital asset platforms.

Sanctions Risk in Digital and Decentralized Financial Systems.

She currently serves as Senior Director and Chief Sanctions Officer at Kraken, where she is responsible for the Global Sanctions Compliance Program and On-Chain (DeFi) Product Compliance. Her work includes sanctions risk identification, control design, risk and control mapping, issue management, escalation, and senior management reporting.

Prior to Kraken, Noe held senior sanctions compliance roles at Citi, where she led global sanctions screening governance and enterprise sanctions risk assessments across more than 120 countries, and at Meta, where she led the remediation and maturation of the Global Sanctions Compliance Program and supported early digital asset and payments initiatives.

Noe is frequently consulted by financial institutions, digital asset platforms, and regulators on sanctions risk in digital and decentralized financial systems. She is currently developing educational programs and professional courses focused on operationalizing sanctions compliance in digital and decentralized financial systems.

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