Neil
Samtani
Neil Samtani is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at XReg Consulting, a group of former regulators with practical experience in formulating public policy and developing regulation for Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and virtual assets. As Technical Editor of IVMS101, Neil collaborated with 130+ subject-matter experts to produce a technical standard to facilitate exchange of data between Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs). Previously, Neil has worked with leading financial institutions such as HSBC, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, Credit Suisse, Nordea Bank and Dexia. At HSBC, he headed up a program of work to create a first-of-its-kind industry utility service to allow the bank to achieve increased efficiency and effectiveness in their KYC processes.