Inca Digital adds to regulatory affairs and national security teams
20 July 2022 US
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US digital asset intelligence company Inca Digital has appointed Anita Nikolich as lead research advisor, and Brian Quintenz to the firm’s advisory board.
Nikolich and Quintenz will help design and deploy Inca’s data analytics and services to financial institutions, exchanges, regulators and government agencies, focusing on the regulatory affairs and national security implications of digital assets.
As lead research advisor, Nikolich will oversee the firm’s new national security projects and set policy and strategy for the firm’s expanding national security practice.
As an advisor to Inca Digital, Quintenz will provide counsel on the firm’s wider effort to provide data analytics across crypto regulation.
Nikolich is the director of research and technology at the University of Illinois and serves on the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for cyberinfrastructure. Her experience includes serving as programme director for cybersecurity at the National Science Foundation. She was also director of global data networking at Aon, the global financial services advisory focused on risk mitigation.
Quintenz is a former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he helped establish the agency’s role as a federal regulator with jurisdiction over digital currencies, utility tokens, and other non-security commodities. During his tenure, the CFTC oversaw the listing of the first US regulated Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts on derivatives exchanges, and the rapid expansion of decentralised finance.
Commenting on Nikolich and Quintenz’s new appointments, Adam Zarazinski, CEO of Inca Digital, says: “With crypto markets facing a tumultuous future in the short term, and some companies in the space either unable or unwilling to act responsibly, it is more important than ever to have market intelligence, compliance tools and robust risk management analytics.
“Anita and Brian will be invaluable additions guiding our national security and regulatory work, and we know our clients and the wider market will benefit from their expertise.”
Nikolich and Quintenz will help design and deploy Inca’s data analytics and services to financial institutions, exchanges, regulators and government agencies, focusing on the regulatory affairs and national security implications of digital assets.
As lead research advisor, Nikolich will oversee the firm’s new national security projects and set policy and strategy for the firm’s expanding national security practice.
As an advisor to Inca Digital, Quintenz will provide counsel on the firm’s wider effort to provide data analytics across crypto regulation.
Nikolich is the director of research and technology at the University of Illinois and serves on the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for cyberinfrastructure. Her experience includes serving as programme director for cybersecurity at the National Science Foundation. She was also director of global data networking at Aon, the global financial services advisory focused on risk mitigation.
Quintenz is a former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where he helped establish the agency’s role as a federal regulator with jurisdiction over digital currencies, utility tokens, and other non-security commodities. During his tenure, the CFTC oversaw the listing of the first US regulated Bitcoin and Ether futures contracts on derivatives exchanges, and the rapid expansion of decentralised finance.
Commenting on Nikolich and Quintenz’s new appointments, Adam Zarazinski, CEO of Inca Digital, says: “With crypto markets facing a tumultuous future in the short term, and some companies in the space either unable or unwilling to act responsibly, it is more important than ever to have market intelligence, compliance tools and robust risk management analytics.
“Anita and Brian will be invaluable additions guiding our national security and regulatory work, and we know our clients and the wider market will benefit from their expertise.”
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