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Ledgerworks Institute

Faculty, regulation & compliance

Naomi Castellanos

Twelve years in financial-crime compliance at regulated exchanges and a national regulator.

  • AML/KYC programmes, asset classification, supervisory examinations
  • 1 courses
  • 1 research notes

Naomi wrote the regulation track. Having worked both sides — building compliance programmes at exchanges and later examining them at a national regulator — she teaches the subject as two different jobs that have to understand each other.

The track deliberately avoids predicting where regulation is going. It teaches how classification arguments are constructed and how an examination is actually run, because those outlive any particular rulebook.

Background

  • Twelve years in financial-crime compliance
  • Compliance lead at two regulated exchanges
  • Supervisory experience at a national financial regulator

Writing for the Institute

  • Reading a classification argument on its own terms (Institute note, 2025)
  • Travel Rule mechanics, end to end (Institute note, 2024)

Declared affiliations

None declared. Castellanos holds no paid relationship with any exchange, protocol or issuer relevant to the material taught here. This is restated at the start of each course.