Roy Keidar

Roy Keidar is special counsel at Yigal Arnon & Co. He teaches at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and has written extensively about blockchain and emerging technologies. His legal expertise is in the fields of international law, security and emerging tech. Roy was an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, filling various positions in the Military Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, specializing in international law, legal and economic issues related to Gaza and the West Bank. Roy has served as the legal advisor for the Israeli National Security Council at the Prime Minister's Office. During his seven years' tenure he has worked on various issues related to international law, defense and security, counter-terrorism, terror financing, anti-money laundering and administrative law. In the course of his position with the Prime Minister's office Roy was appointed to serve on the following commissions: The special UN inquiry committee of the events leading to the 'Flotilla incident'. Special coordinator of the national committee chaired by lt. General (ret) Amnon Lipkin Shachak to implement the conclusions from the second Lebanese war. Member of the special inquiry committee in charge of investigating the events leading to the abduction of the Israeli soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit. Appointed by Prime Minister Sharon to the committee in charge of drafting the special legislation for the implementation of the Disengagement Plan. Served as the facilitator of the Israeli national security cabinet meetings. Apart from his legal expertise Roy is an entrepreneur at heart. He has co-founded the Cross Lab Network (XLN), a global network of maker-spaces designed to provide wide-spread access to digital fabrication technologies. Previously Roy has worked for 3 years as the CEO of the Reut Institute one of Israel's leading strategy and policy groups dealing with Israel's most pressing issues on national security, social and economic development and science and technology. Roy writes occasionally on legal issues of emerging technologies, such as 3D printing, block chain technologies, and IoT. He was a lecturer at the faculty of law, IDC Herzliya on the issue of counter terrorism law and policy.

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2901, 2018

Cryptocurrencies and market abuse risks: It’s time for self-regulation

|29 Jan 2018|News|

With quite a bit of emphasis put on the value of the crypto-currencies, or some would say the lack thereof, and the regulatory oversight on the offering of such crypto-currencies to the public, namely the process called Initial Coin Offering (ICO), the risks of market abuse have been far less discussed.

2807, 2017

The key to overcoming the AML challenge in crypto-currency

|28 Jul 2017|News|

In what some are coining a landmark case, an Israeli District Court recently ruled that Israeli banks are not obligated to provide financial services to companies whose primary business is trading in crypto-currencies, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. The Court reasoned that banks should not have to assume the risks associated with providing a financial platform to these digital currency businesses when the leading Israeli authorities on the subject, namely the Central Bank, the Securities Authority and the Anti-Money Laundering and Terror Financing Authority, themselves have been struggling to delineate clear measures to minimize them. One of the primary risks noted by the Israeli authorities, along with regulators around the globe, is the pseudo-anonymous nature of crypto-currency. Regulators view the digital token transfer method as a "black box", low in accountability and virtually impossible to subject to existing anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terror financing regulations. However, inflexibility may be clouding judgment: built-in features of crypto-currency, particularly Blockchain technology, have the potential to improve, not harm, AML efforts, even surpassing mechanisms already in place today.

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