Compliance Champions: Crypto Compliance in Turkey: Lessons from Paribu’s Frontlines

In this Compliance Champions episode, Solidus Labs’ Delphine Forma sits down with Mehmet Turkaslan, Board Member & Director of Legal at Paribu, to unpack Turkey’s crypto regime—and what it takes to operate at scale under capital-markets discipline. Mehmet shares how Paribu helped architect Turkey’s ecosystem from day one (2017) and is now aligning trading and custody under separate entities, hardening information-security and wallet governance, and treating compliance as a strategic edge.

💡 Highlights:

• Turkey’s framework, decoded: CMB oversight for platforms & custodians, MASAK AML/CFT, and strict localization requirements (systems, order books, data, and private keys resident in Turkey).
• Tech governance that counts: CMB information-systems rules + TÜBİTAK technical criteria (HSM/MPC, cold-wallet architecture, auditability).
• AML & Travel Rule in practice: threshold-based data sharing, pre-transaction checks, playbooks for rejects/returns, and audit-ready logging.
• Market integrity: Real-time surveillance for wash trading, spoofing/layering, pump-and-dumps; insider-trading controls, and proactive CMB reporting.
• Token listings & governance: Cross-functional committee, published list/delist criteria, scoring model, “document everything,” and default-to-delay when risk is unclear.
• Beyond Turkey: Paribu’s modular compliance roadmap toward MiCA and selected global hubs (e.g., UAE).

Tune in to learn how Turkey’s capital-markets approach is shaping a resilient, trust-first crypto market, and how Paribu operationalizes it.