Noah Perlman joined Binance in January 2023 as its Global Chief Compliance Officer. Before Binance, he worked at Gemini, first as CCO and then as Chief Operating Officer. Noah also served as President and CEO of the Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Before starting in crypto, he was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Financial Crimes at Morgan Stanley, where he had legal and compliance responsibility for the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Boycott, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities programs.
Earlier in his career, Noah was the Division Counsel for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division. Prior to his stint with DEA, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York where he held several supervisory posts including Special Coordinator for Crimes against Children and Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section.
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SEC Coordinates with Global Financial Regulators to Raise Fraud Awareness During World Investor Week
SEC
Washington D.C., Oct. 5, 2026 —
The Securities and Exchange Commission, in coordination with other U.S. and global financial regulators, today issued a joint investor bulletin as part of World Investor Week (WIW). The bulletin encourages investors to be resilient in changing economic conditions and to be vigilant in the face of rising relationship investment and impersonation scams.
World Investor Week is a global effort by the International Organization of Securities Commissions to bring together regulators across six continents to raise awareness about the importance of investor education and investor protection. This year marks WIW’s tenth anniversary. The SEC, coordinating U.S. efforts, worked with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, National Futures Association, and North American Securities Administrators Association to issue the joint Investor Bulletin.
FinCEN Announces Withdrawals of Proposed Digital Asset Related Rules
FinCEN
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is withdrawing the following proposed rules that would have imposed certain regulatory requirements on financial institutions related to certain digital assets, specifically convertible virtual currencies:
a proposal that would have imposed recordkeeping, verification, and reporting requirements on certain transactions involving convertible virtual currencies and unhosted wallets and
a proposal that would have imposed a special measure with regards to convertible virtual currency mixing.
FinCEN has considered the comments submitted in response to these proposals and is withdrawing them as part of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda and ongoing efforts to ensure digital asset regulations are fit-for-purpose.
Treasury Dismantles Major Hamas Financing Network
OFAC
WASHINGTON—Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a member of Hamas’s military wing, along with two France-based individuals and two affiliated entities that provide critical financing to Hamas. These designations expose a sophisticated, multi‑year financing architecture that moved more than $2 million to Hamas through deceptive charitable fronts and cryptocurrency channels, demonstrating the organization’s persistent ability to adapt its fundraising mechanisms to evade detection.