vGlobal 2022

The first day of OffshoreAlert vGlobal 2022 is primarily for orientation, so attendees can explore our state-of-the art, no-expense-spared platform, see who’s attending, schedule meetings, visit booths, and watch video-shorts showcasing sponsors’ products and services. There will also be a one-hour speed networking event.

In this session, ICIJ investigative reporter Will Fitzgibbon will provide the latest intelligence on the shady world of shadow diplomats, in which hundreds of rogue honorary consuls, including alleged terror financiers and criminals, have undermined a little-known system of global diplomacy.

There's something about crypto that makes otherwise rational people become unhinged. In this session, the presenter will present his case for the inevitable collapse of what he considers to be the biggest financial folly in human history. He says that crypto's foundation, bitcoin, is a confidence game with the excitement of gambling, the viral marketing of a pyramid scheme, and the fake profits of a Ponzi.

In this session, OffshoreAlert founder and editor David Marchant will look at some key developments and issues in major offshore financial centers in the areas of investigations and transparency. He will, among other things, explain why the appearance of certain jurisdictions in the complex corporate web of failed crypto group FTX should have been a deal-breaking red flag to prospective clients or investors, discuss the embrace of the fraud-ridden crypto industry, and identify one major offshore jurisdiction whose court took more than three years to produce a publicly-available court filing and expose flaws in the same jurisdiction's on-line corporate registry system.

In this session, Norwegian investigative journalist Eiliv Frich Flydal will discuss how to investigate property ownership in Dubai and provide examples of property ownership by suspected fraudsters, sanctions evaders, and other ne'er-do-wells.

In this session, TRM Labs' training specialist Luke Russell will show attendees tools and techniques to conduct their own investigations into crypto.

Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as 'the world’s local bank', the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. However, the same bank was hit with a record U.S. fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for 'drug kingpins and rogue nations'.

This session will analyze how a bank that boasts 'we're committed to helping protect the world's financial system on which millions of people depend by only doing business with customers who meet our high standards of transparency' came to provide services to now-imprisoned Mexian drugs lord El Chapo and his barbaric group of gangsters and ask why none of its representatives were criminally prosecuted..

The story starts in Hong Kong and ranges across London, Washington, the Cayman Islands and Mexico, where HSBC saw the opportunity to become the largest bank in the world, and El Chapo seized the chance to fuel his murderous empire by laundering his drug proceeds through the bank. It brings together an extraordinary cast of politicians, bankers, drug dealers, FBI officers, and whistle-blowers.

A demonstration of Internet-based tools to help you find, monitor, and understand information on targets.

In this session, offshore insolvency practitioners and a lawyer who are all involved in the liquidation of cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital will discuss lessons learned so far when liquidating a global crypto enterprise and attempting to recover assets for creditors.

In this session, insolvency practitioners and asset recovery specialists will discuss new and emerging issues affecting asset recovery in Latin America.

In this session, litigation funders will discuss key and emerging issues affecting the funding of asset recovery lawsuits, including crypto-related litigation, and offer advice on how to go about getting your case funded.

In this session, asset recovery attorneys will discuss key and emerging issues affecting the successful recovery of value in different jurisdictions and take your questions regarding any aspects of the industry. This is your chance to ask the experts anything you want.

In this session, representatives of the USA's Internal Revenue Service will discuss attempts by the IRS to collect taxes from taxpayers who are engaged in crypto transactions.

This session will look at how easy or difficult it is to convert crypto into fiat currency, including crypto that has been seized by liquidators of scams and law enforcement.

In this session, OffshoreAlert's editor, David Marchant, will interview a programmer and former crypto fan turned whistleblower who uses the pseudonym 'Bitfinex’ed' on social media about why the whistleblower sees nothing but red flags in the industry.