Virtual Assets: Integrating Cryptocurrency and Traditional Banking, with Sheetal Bhardwaj

BCG on Compliance

We are in the midst of a virtual asset revolution. Consumers are diversifying their portfolios to include crypto, but integration with financial institutions has been a challenge. Sheetal Bhardwaj, is at the forefront of compliance in the changing digital asset landscape. Sheetal is a banker, an expert in the digital asset domain and an anti-financial crime professional.

Sheetal’s career in the risk and compliance sector spans over 20 years. Most recently, she has helped organizations from big-four accounting firms to challenger cryptocurrency platforms to navigate the integration of digital assets and traditional banking infrastructure. Sheetal is an expert in compliance, fraud, money laundering, cryptocurrency, and global sanctions, and works at the intersection of these subjects.

On this episode of BCG on Compliance, Sheetal delivers key insights into the brave new world of virtual assets. We discuss how compliance has shifted in the digital realm, why regulating across jurisdictions is a challenge, and how AI-driven monitoring can increase financial organizations’ appetite for risk.