Nathan Smale is a consultant at Emfarsis, a communications consultancy specialising in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects throughout Southeast Asia. Nathan was a strategic advisor to the V20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, which brought together the world’s virtual assets service providers with regulators and the FATF to discuss the Travel Rule as part of the G20 Summit. Additionally, Nathan sat on the Joint Working Group for the development of the interVASP Messaging Standards (IVMS101), an industry-led technical standard launched in May 2020 to help the crypto industry accelerate Travel Rule compliance.