Rodney MacIness

Rodney is currently the CRO & AML Compliance Ninja at Outlier Compliance Group (Outlier), a Canadian-based consulting company that set out to break the consulting mould by focusing on 3 core principles: Value, Open-Source & Continuous Improvement. Rodney became a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) in early 2011, and is also a graduate of the Canadian Institute Financial Crime Analysis course at Seneca College. He is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) and a Certified Ethereum Professional (CEP), who fell down the rabbit hole in 2013, and currently is the Chair of the CBP Committee at the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium’s (C4’s). His financial compliance experience includes anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing (ATF), Counter Sanctions Evasion (CSE), anti-fraud and Legislative Compliance Management (LCM). Over the past 17+ years, Rodney has held positions both in-house and as a consultant, a strategic leader, and a founder. Rodney currently sits on the Canadian Blockchain Consortium’s Regulatory Committee, and the Canadian Money Services Business Association’s Dealers in Virtual Currency Committee. He is also the Chair of the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium’s (C4’s) Certified Bitcoin Professional Examination Committee, where he assists in revamping the content and training materials for the current certification. Rodney has also travelled internationally for the purpose of training foreign governments, financial intelligence units, and regulatory bodies on aspects of anti-financial crime and associated regulation, blockchain based education and investigations, as well as analysis and feedback on the current regulations implemented.