What does it take for a global financial institution to approach digital assets responsibly?

In this episode of Solidus Labs’ Compliance Champions, Delphine Forma sits down with Deepthi Machavaram, Global Head of Digital Financial Crime Advisory at Morgan Stanley, to explore how financial institutions are thinking about crypto risk today, and how that mindset has evolved over the last decade.

They discuss:

• the shift from curiosity to operational rigor in digital assets

• the four pillars of a strong crypto financial crime framework: data, controls, governance, and resilience

• where institutions still underestimate the complexity of crypto enablement

• how to assess vendors, blockchain analytics tools, and third-party infrastructure

• how source of funds, source of wealth, and typologies differ in crypto

• what tokenization, stablecoins, and AI could mean for compliance over the next decade

A thoughtful conversation on building scalable, risk-sensitive compliance frameworks for digital assets.