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Finding Genius Podcast

Cooley LLP – Marco Santori, Fintech, Bitcoin & Blockchain Attorney

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Marco Santori, partner attorney at Cooley LLP, discusses legal questions faced by Fintech companies (including bitcoin, cryptocurrency and other blockchain-based companies). Marco Santori leads the FinTech team at Cooley LLP, an international law firm.
Marco talks about the regulatory side of these new technologies, government regulations and how these regulations in US are different than other countries.
He talks about the friendly and unfriendly regulations of various countries towards cryptocurrency and how the cryptocurrencies will affect their respective economies.
Marco also discusses app coins vs. cryptocurrencies, AML, KYC, issues related to ICOs (initial coin offerings) and more.
This interview is a MUST LISTEN for any founder or company working in the fintech, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency or app coin space.
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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.9

Future Technologies are poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast.

0:13.6

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

0:18.2

We're just around the corner.

0:19.7

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:22.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.7

Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast, almost here around the corner technology.

0:31.9

And today I have Marco Santori, an attorney at Cooley, LLP.

0:36.8

And Marco works with cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, and blockchain technologies

0:42.0

in the addressing the legal questions surrounding these technologies.

0:47.0

So how are you doing, Marco?

0:48.5

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me.

0:51.3

Yeah. I don't know if I gave a good introduction, but can you tell folks maybe a little

0:56.9

bit more detail about what you do and how you work, you know, around the legal issues regarding

1:01.9

these technologies? Sure. So I'm a partner at Kooley. It's an international law firm. I lead the

1:09.4

Cintech team, Kooley, financial technology an international law firm. I lead the Cintech team, Kooley, which is financial

1:11.7

technology. One of the financial technologies and technologies in general that I focus on

1:18.0

is blockchain technology and, of course, Bitcoin. I've been doing it since, gosh, since back

1:26.2

when we were still calling this stuff well since we were calling

1:30.0

blockchain Bitcoin 2.0 and of course nobody calls it that anymore but those those those

1:36.3

those those are the heady days I guess those 2012 when I first got involved okay so what's kind of of clients are you guys getting? You know, obviously

1:47.9

without disclosing names, but what kind of situations are you called in to address? Is it just

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