Dr Iwa Salami is a senior lecturer in Financial Law and Regulation at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law. She has published extensively in the field of financial law and regulation and her list of publications include a book and numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Her book, ‘Financial Regulation in Africa: An Assessment of Financial Integration Arrangements in African Emerging and Frontier Markets’ was published by Ashgate in 2012. Some of her publications include: ‘Terrorism Financing with Virtual Currencies: Can RegTech Solutions Combat This?’ published in August 2017 in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; ‘Virtual Asset Laundering and Cryptocurrency Blending and Mixing Services’ published in May 2019 in Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence; ‘Decentralised Finance: A Holistic Approach to Regulating the Crypto Industry’, published in July 2020 in the Journal of International Banking and Financial Law; ‘Financial Technology and African Capital Markets Post Covid-19’, published in January 2021, in the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation.

Dr Salami speaks regularly at international conferences on law, regulation and policy around financial technology, broadly. She is one of the 40 FinTech experts surveyed to predict what the future holds for cryptocurrencies in the Finder Cryptocurrency Predictions Quarterly Report. She has participated in events and debates including at the UN General Assembly meetings, UK Parliament and Chatham House and is an agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum. Her current research focuses on FinTech regulation in emerging markets and institutional frameworks for regional central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).