Ian Lee is the Founding Team and Associate Director of Merkle Science, a provider of blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions.

Ian started out as a capital markets lawyer. During that time, many people came to him to ask about how to engage with crypto in a legally compliant way. He saw the vision of what crypto can become and decided to join Merkle Science to create an infrastructure that would bridge the gap between crypto and the traditional world.

We talked about:
*How Merkle Science helps companies and financial institutions deal with crypto
*The effect of AML and crypto adoption
*The need for coordination between the regulatory bodies on a global scale
*Southeast Asian regulators’ stance on crypto
*How Merkle Science help regulators protect against AML issues
*What we need to do to promote crypto usage while keeping regulators happy